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The British Barley Society 



The Board have received information through the Foreign 

 Office that regulations have recently been 

 ^c^atton** issued under §21 of the Meat Inspection 

 Act of 1900*, prohibiting the preparation 

 or importation of meat treated with boracic acid and its salts, 

 formaldehyde, salicylic acid and its compounds, and certain 

 other chemical substances. The use of colouring matters ot 

 all kinds is also prohibited, except their application to make 

 margarine yellow and for colouring the skins of sausages, so 

 long as such use is not contrary to other existing regula- 

 tions. These provisions come into force on the 1st October, 

 1902. 



^'Journal of the Board of ' Agriculture > Vol. VII., September, 1900, p. 240.] 



The Board have received a notification of the formation of 

 a society to be known as the British Barley 

 The British Society. The objects of the Society are 

 Barley Society, stated as follows : — To improve the char- 

 acter and quality of barley; to aid growers 

 in every way by furnishing the fullest information as to soils, 

 seed, rotation and manures, stacking, threshing and dressing ; 

 to encourage the better use of barley, and to foster arable 

 cultivation of the soil, etc. The offices of the Society are at 

 1 1, Queen Victoria Street, E.C. 



