ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS 3F CANADIAN INVESTIGATIONS. 



Central Experimental Farm of Canada, Special Bulletin (pp. 49). 



The establishment of cheese factories and creameries, 

 J. W. Eobertson (illustrated). — A brief statement of the \yays in 

 which cheese factories and creameries may be carried on by individuals 

 or by companies ; the text of a law of the Province of Ontario, approved 

 March 23, 1888, to provide for the incorporation of cheese and butter- 

 manufacturing associations; forms of by-laws, rules, and regulations for 

 joint-stock companies for the manufacture of butter or cheese, and for 

 creameries on the cream-gathering plan and on the centrifugal separator 

 plan ; directions for the location and construction of buildings, with 

 plans; lists of apparatus and utensils; notes regarding the duties of 

 cheese makers, milk drawers, butter makers, and cream collectors; 

 general suggestions regarding the management of the creamery busi- 

 ness; and a table " showing the number of inches (in depth) of whey to 

 be allowed in mdk cans of different sizes, for quantities of milk from 30 

 to 360 pounds." 



Ontario Agricultural College Station, Bulletin No. 58, February 2, 1891 



(pp. 10). 



Experi:ments with spring grain. — ISTotes and tabulated data are 

 given for 10 varieties of barley, 7 of spring wheat, 5 of peas, and 10 of 

 oats, as well as the average yields of barley and oats from seed grown 

 in Ontario and in several countries of Europe, and of two-rowed barley 

 and six-rowed varieties of barley. Herison Bearded wheat, Goanette 

 Black, Houdan Black, Chenailles, Black Etampes (French varieties), 

 and Oderbrucher (German variety) oats are especially commended. 



Judfjing from tlie experience of the i)ast 2 years the English barleys give, on the 

 whole, the best results, but some fine growing and yielding varieties come from Ger- 

 many and France. With reference to oats, the French varieties shonhl be placed first, 

 all things considered, although some kinds from Germany do nearly as well. 



The average yields obtained from the two-rowed and six-rowed varieties of barley 

 are not far different, nor is there much difference in the average weights of the two 

 classes. 



The average returns from the foreign varieties are In a majority of instances supe- 

 rior to those of the old standard varieties. 



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