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hear before our spring flowers appear that this policy has been 
entirely abandoned. 
Wild Bird Protection. — We have received from the Home 
Office an Order, dated November 17, protecting the Great 
Bustard, the Goldfinch and the Little Owl in the county of 
Cambridge throughout the year and prohibiting the taking or 
destroying of eggs of any kind in Wicken Sedge Fen. We 
also received an Order, dated January 29, referring to the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, extending the close time from the last day 
of February to August 12, adding a great number of species to 
the schedule, and many others to the list of birds protected 
throughout the year, and prohibiting the taking of the eggs of 
many species after February 16, 1908, but excluding the House 
Sparrow from protection. On the same date an Order was 
issued for the East Riding fixing close time as from the last day 
of February to September 1, except as regards Mallard, Golden 
Plover, Snipe and Woodcock, for which it terminates on 
August 12, protecting numerous species and the eggs of many 
kinds throughout the entire year and area, prohibiting the kill- 
ing or capture of all birds on Sundays in some districts, or on 
any date on the piers and shore at Bridlington, or between 
Flamborough South Landing and Skipsea Watch House, and 
protecting all eggs on Spurn Head and Hornsea Mere. Lastly, 
we have an Order, dated January 30, for Devonshire, extending 
the close time from January 31 to September 1, adding some 
species to the schedule and protecting certain species throughout 
the year and certain eggs throughout the county, protecting all 
eggs on Lundy Island, in the Baggy Point, Clovellv, Lynton, 
Slapton Ley and Start districts ; but exempting the Shag and 
the Cormorant from protection in the Axe, Exe, Dart, Teign, 
Taw and Torridge Fishery Districts. 
Publications of the Board of Agriculture and Fish- 
eries. — We have received notice that this Board has printed in 
pamphlet form a description of the symptoms of cattle-plague, 
pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep- 
scab, swine-fever, glanders, rabies, anthrax, epizootic lymphan- 
gitis and mange. We have also received their Leaflets No. 128, 
Advice to Beginners in Bee-keeping; No. 148, Planting Fruit- 
trees and Bushes, giving advice as to the selection of varieties ; 
No. 152, Bacterial disease of Tomatoes; No. 154, Prevention 
and Cure of Foot-rot in Sheep; No. 155, Larch Canker (Dasy- 
scypha calycina ), previously known as Peziza Wilkomii ; No. 156, 
Hedgerow Timber; and No. 159, Blindness in Barley and Oats. 
We may remind our readers that any of these publications can 
be obtained gratis and post-free on application to the Secretary 
to the Board, 4, Whitehall Place, S.W., and that letters of 
application need not be stamped. 
