Dec. 1895.] 



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The object of the society would, he maintains, be still better 

 attained if cheap straw skeps with supers, as well as bar-framed 

 hives and other apicultural appliances which have been brought 

 to such perfection in England could be introduced into Servia, 

 and the cumbersome Dzierzon hive dispensed with. 



[Foreign Office Report, Miscellaneous Series, Ro. 880. Price 



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Agricultural Congress at Brussels. 



The Board have received through tlie Foreign Office a 

 copy of a Report by Mr. C. F. F. Adam, Secretary to Her 

 Majesty's Legation at Brussels, on the proceedings of the third 

 Agricultural Congress, organised by the International Com- 

 mission of Agriculture, of which M. Jules Meline is President. 

 The Congress satin Brussels from the 9th to the 15th of Septem- 

 ber last, and was opened by M. de Bruyn, Belgian Minister of 

 Agriculture and Public Works, who was elected Honorary Pre- 

 sident, while M. Cartuy vels van der Linden, Director-General of 

 Agriculture, was elected actual President. 



The subjects assigned to the several sections of the Congress 

 were as follows : — 



1st Section : Agricultural education. 2nd Section : Agronomic 

 sciences. 3rd Section : Raral social institutions, and agri- 

 cultural co-operation. 4th Section : Questions of legislation 

 and administration. 5th Section : The monetary question. 

 6th Section : Cattle breeding. 7th Section : Veterinary 

 medicine. 8th Section : Vegetable production. 9th Section : 

 Southern (tropical ?) crops, and colonisation. 10th Section : 

 Forest management. 11th Section : Pisciculture. 12th 

 Section : Agricultural industries. 

 The mornings of Tuesday, September 10th, and Wednesday, 

 September 11th, were devoted to meetings of the several sec- 

 tions. On the latter day, in the 5th section, M. Allard, 

 formerly Director of the Belgian Mint, defended a report which 

 he had presented in favour of bimetallism, and proposed a 

 motion advocating a new Monetary Conference. On Wednesday 

 afternoon, a general meeting was held, under the presidency of 

 M. Cartuy vels van der Linden, at which M. Sagnier, manager of 

 the " Journal de 1' Agriculture," of Paris, presented a report 

 on the " Protection of Birds useful to AgTiculture." This was 

 followed by a discussion on the proceedings of section 7, in regard 

 to the prevention of tuberculosis, glanders, and contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia. 



A proposal for an International Sanitary Convention, pre- 

 sented by M. Degive, Director of the Veterinary School of 

 Cureghenn, was agreed to unanimously, and a motion was 

 introduced by M. Nocard, Professor at Maisons- Mfort (France), 

 in favour of the systematic use of malleine as a preventive of 

 glanders. This was also carried. 



