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and Wales a circular letter explaining its provisions, together 
with a copy of the regulations made by the Board containing 
the prescribed forms of scheme and of notice of :ntention to 
make it. The provisions of the Commons Act, 1876, with 
respect to the regulation of Commons are not repealed, and 
may still be found serviceable in certain cases. 
Among the miscellaneous provisions in the Commons Act, 
1899, 1s one relating to the notice by advertisement which the 
Board are required to give before they confirm an order of 
exchange, &c. By section 19 it is enacted that section 150 of 
the Inclosure Act, 1845, shall have effect as if “two successive 
weeks’ were therein inserted instead of “three successive 
weeks,” and as if “one month” were therein inserted instead 
Gmeeuitece calendar months,  WUhis) alteration materially 
shortens the time occupied in carrying out exchanges of land, 
and reduces the expenses by the cost of one advertisement. 
Gan CURING IN) sven WO NNTGR ED E Sa AGES: 
Some interesting information relating to the growth of the 
hog-packing industry inthe United States has been issued 
by the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. The so-called 
packing industry, or the wholesale curing and packing of 
hog products, is centred mainly in the Western States, where 
it is intimately associated with the business of slaughtering, 
dressing, and exporting cattle and sheep. The origin of the 
pork packing trade, as it is now understood, cannot be traced 
further back than 1818, when an establishment was set up in 
the city of Cincinnati, which remained the chief centre of this 
trade until 1862. The location of the industry has always 
been in close proximity tothe great maize growing States, 
and as the centre of maize production has moved westwards 
it has been followed by the hog-packing trade. Thus, in the 
fourth, fifth, and sixth decades of this century, Cincinnati and 
Louisville, on the Ohio River, in the midst of a flourishing 
maize country, were the headquarters of the curing and 
