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GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [March 1896, 



governments were represented, and made recommendations: 

 which have^ now to be finally disposed of. Not the least 

 important of these refer to the introduction into the educational 

 system of a more practical connection with agriculture. 

 Another question of interest which, it is presumed, will come 

 under discussion, is the connection between the Land Record 

 and Registration Departments. The issues arising from 

 Dr. Voelcker's report are understood to be mainly concerned 

 with the systeni of inquiry into agricultural conditions and 

 practices, and with the policy to be pursued in ascertaining 

 what, if any, improvements in them can be effected. 



International Agricultural Machine Market at 

 Vienna, 1896. 



The Board of Agriculture have been requested to draw the 

 attention of the manufacturers of agricultural machines and 

 implements to an international agricultural machine market to be- 

 held at Vienna from 9th to 14th May, 1896. This exhibition 

 has been organised by the Imperial and Royal Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna, and the exhibit? of machines and implements 

 are to be arranged in the following sections : — (1.) Agriculture ;, 

 (2.) Agricultural manufactures ; (3.) Forestry ; (4.) Manufac- 

 tures of wood pulp and other industries ; (5.) Cultivation of 

 fruit and the manufacture of wine ; (6.) Machines and utensils, 

 used in cattle rearing ; (7.) Machines and utensils for the dairy 

 (8) Fishing ; (9.) Veterinary science and horse-shoeing; (10.) 

 Electricity in the service of agriculture and forestry. 



Applications for space must be addressed to the committee of 

 the exhibition at I Herrengasse 13, Vienna, and must be sent in 

 not later than March 16th, 1896. 



Forms of entry and copies of the programme and general 

 regulations of the exhibition may be obtained on application^ 

 either personally or by letter, from the Secretary, Board of 

 Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, S.W. 



Importation of Neat Cattle and Hides into the United 



States. 



The following is a copy of a notice which was issued to the 

 Press on the 12th December last : — 



The Board of Agriculture have received through the Foreign Office 

 copies of a proclamation issued by the President of the United States on 

 November 8, 1895, suspending the prohibition of the importation of 

 neat cattle from Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, Norway,, 

 Sweden, Holland, and the countries of North, Central, and South 

 America, including Mexico, and of the hides of neat cattle from all parts 

 of the world. All importations of neat cattle are to be made under the 

 sanitary regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and all 



