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portant suggestions, namely,jthat commercial agents should 

 be appointed to reside in the principal foreign ports, beginning 

 with London, Hull, and Hamburg, whose duty it would be 

 to watch and report on the condition of the market, and to 

 keep constantly in touch with the societies and producers ; 

 and secondly, that measures should be taken to prevent the 

 deterioration and diminution in value, either in transit or in 

 warehouses, of poultry] products exported from Russia to 

 England. After hearing a paper on the rearing of pheasants 

 as a Russian industry, by M. D. Naryschkine, the Congress 

 agreed that it was indispensable, in order to create a remu- 

 nerative trade in this game, to introduce breeding birds from 

 England, which was the only country possessing a pure and 

 healthy race of pheasants. Other suggestions made by the 

 Congress were that laboratories should be created for the 

 study of diseases of poultry, and the methods of treating them ; 

 that poultry products should be conveyed by fast trains in 

 waggons specially arranged for the purpose ; and that cold 

 stores for these products should be constuctecl in the large 

 towns and ports. 



The principal recommendations of a general or interna- 

 tional character included the following, viz.: — That 

 international exhibitions of aviculture should be held 

 triennially in the different European capitals ; that the 

 transport ot poultry by rail and water should be placed 

 under regulations similar to those imposed on the carriage of 

 animals : and that the Russian Imperial Society of Avi- 

 culture should be invited to organize an international 

 competition for incubators, with a view to the invention of 

 cheaper and less complicated machines than those at present 

 available. 



Victorian Exported Products Act, 1898. 



The Board have received through the Colonial Office a 

 copy of an Act, approved by the Government of Victoria on 

 December 19th, 1898, to provide for the inspection of live- 

 stock, meat, dairy produce, and fruit, intended for export, 

 and to regulate the exportation thereof. 



