Prize for Copper Fungicides. 



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Canada and the Tuberculin Test, 



The Board of Agriculture are informed by the High Com- 

 missioner for Canada that the Canadian Government have 

 sent an officer specially to this country to apply the tuber- 

 culin test to all cattle over six months old for breeding 

 purposes, and to milch cows intended lor export from the 

 United Kingdom to Canada. This arrangement supersedes 

 that by which the test could hitherto be applied by veterinary 

 surgeons in this country approved by the High Commis- 

 sioner. 



The officer appointed is Mr. J. G. Rutherford, Veterinary 

 Quarantine Officer of the Canadian Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to whom communications regarding the testing of 

 ■cattle should be addressed. His headquarters for the 

 present are the Canadian Government Offices, 52, St. Enoch 

 .Square, Glasgow. 



The Board have received particulars regarding an inter- 

 national competition to be held under 



Prize for ^ e auS pi ces G f the Federation of the 

 Copper 1 

 Fungicides. Agricultural Unions of Italy, for a prize 



of £40, which will be awarded to the 

 person who discovers and makes public the best method for 

 ■obtaining exact and constant results in the determination 

 of the fineness of the flowers of sulphur and of mixtures of 

 sulphur and copper sulphate. The object of the competition 

 is to encourage the special study of this subject ; for it is 

 explained that, although there has been considerable pro- 

 gress in the methods of preparation of the different sorts of 

 sulphur used for combating diseases of plants, and the 

 demand, in consequence, has greatly increased, yet the 

 methods actually employed for estimating the degree ol 

 fineness of these preparations are now antiquated, and leave 

 much to be desired, especially as regards the mixtures ol 

 sulphur and copper sulphate. Competitors must send in 



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