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3. The committee would add that the lots marked No. 1 have 

 cleaner, milder flavor, and show a more silky, waxy body. 



Montreal, November 7, 1900. 



(Signed) JAS. ALEXANDER, 



M. J. FARRELL, 

 A. C. WJKLAND, 

 " ALEX. W. GRANT. 



Watching Transportation. 



During the past season, the Department of Agriculture had one 

 man stationed at Montreal who was an official referee on the 

 quality of cheese and butter. When a dispute arose between a 

 salesman and a buyer regarding the quality of any lot of cheese 

 or butter, the official referee might be called in to give his 

 decision on the quality. He also wrote to the salesman or manu- 

 facturer, pointing out what, in his judgment, would be a means 

 of remedy in the case of any defects he had observed. This work 

 was done during the past summer by Mr. J. A. Ruddick, and his 

 services in that capacity have been eminently useful and satis- 

 factory. 



The department also had one man stationed at Montreal during 

 part of the season to observe the condition in which cheese and 

 butter were handled in loading the steamships. 'Faking seven 

 comparatively small lots of cheese as an instance from one of his 

 reports, the following is a statement of their condition as delivered 

 on the wharf: 



Of 786 boxes of cheese, 101 were in a broken condition, but 

 had been coopered, mostly by being tied with strings. Eighty-five 

 were broken and not coopered. That showed a total of 186 boxes 

 in a partially damaged condition, or 23 per cent, of the whole lot. 



Agents in Great Britain. 



Agents of the Department of Agriculture were stationed dur- 

 ing the past season at the ports of London, Bristol, Liverpool, 

 Manchester and Glasgow. They were instructed to report on 

 the condition in which Canadian cargoes were delivered from 

 the steamships:, and to observe the manner in which they were 

 handled from the steamships to the warehouses, or to the rail- 

 way cars. The reports which they furnished were submitted to 



