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A ne-w butter machine, T. B. O'Neil (Amer. Agr. {mid. ed.), 1S96, July 25, p. 66, 



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Milk registering scales {Deut. landio. Presae, 23 {1896), No. 65, p. 680, fig. 1). 



The creamery industry, E. E. Kaufman {North Dakota Sta. Bui. 23, pp. 27, figs. 

 IS). — This is a purely popular bulletin on modern dairy machinery, the advantages 

 of a creamery, testing of milk, the organization and establishment of cooperative 

 creameries, plan for creamery building, outfit required, etc. 



Eairying in Australia, A. C. Macdonald {Cape of Good Hope Dept. Agr. Bpt. on 

 Dairying in Australia, 2)p. 93, figs. 61). — The report is the result of an investigation 

 made by the author at the instance of the local government of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It gives statistics of the dairy exports of Victoria, showing the increase in 

 the butter export from 369J tons in 1889 and 1890 to 11,584| tons in 1894-'95; relates 

 the manner in which the government has encouraged the industry, and describes the 

 live stock and dairy management and the creamery management, with numerous 

 illustrations of creamery buildings and equipment. The relative-value plan of ])ay- 

 iug for milk and cream and several forms of the Babcock test are described in 

 detail, together with refrigerating machines and plants. 



Dairying in India, J. W. Mollison {Indian Agr., 21 {1896), No. l,p. 15). — Bombay 

 is for India the great center for butter making and for the export trade in butter. 

 Ice is cheap, and good butter can not be made there without it, except iu cold 

 weather. Much of the butter is made without ice and will not keep long. 



During the past year the average number of pounds of buffalo's milk required to 

 make a pound of butter ranged from 10.5 to 12.7, being the least in the hot season 

 when green fodder was scant. 



STATISTICS. 



Annual Report of Kansas Station for 1895 {Kansas Sta. Bpt. 1S95, pp. I- 

 XXIV). — Brief general review of the work of the year, a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, an inventory by departments, list of previous publi- 

 cations, and a general index to Bulletins 49-56. 



Press notes during 1894 and 1895 {Texas Sta. Bui. 37, pp. 657-739, fig. i).— This 

 is a compilation of the more important articles contributed to the agricultural i^ress 

 of Texas by members of the station staff' during the years 1894 and 1895. "These 

 articles are of two kinds, (1) those relating directly to results of experiments, and 

 (2) a small number of letters written in reply to actual letters of inquiry upon all 

 the varied subjects embraced in the term ' Texas Agriculture.' An index to this mat- 

 ter is added at the close of the bulletin to assist in locating the special subjects 

 treated in its pages." 



The -world's markets for American products — Norway {U. S. Dept. Agr., Sec- 

 tion of Foreign Markets Bui. 7, j^P- 68). — Among the topics treated are area and po])u- 

 lation, finance, agriculture, fisheries, shipping, commerce, customs tariff, and foreign 

 trade. The report of the consul at Stavanger is given. 



Arizona agriculture, W. S. Devol {Arizona Sta. Buls. 17, pp. 3-30; 18, pp. 33-54). — 

 These bulletins consist of a synopsis of the proceedings of a convention of farmers, 

 fruit growers, and stockmen of the Territory held at Phoenix October 18 and 19, 1895, 

 under the auspices of the station and the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. Popular 

 addresses were made on The P^conomic Distribution of Water, by J. McMillan; The 

 Adaptation of the Water Supply of Arizona to Its Farmers, by C. W. Crouse; Water 

 Supply, by E. M. Boggs; The Prevention of Blight in the Strawberry and Tomato 

 Plant, by A. C. Lockwood ; Economic P'ungi, by J. W. Toumey ; The Experiment Sta- 

 tions, by W. S. Devol; Cattle Feeding, by F. A. Gulley; Dairy Advantages of the 

 Salt River Valley, by F. A. Hough ; Alkali, by R. H. Forbes ; Cauaigre, by R. H. 

 Forbes; The Growing of Grapes and Their Treatment to the Raisin, by H. H. Logan; 

 Citrus Fruits of the Salt River Valley, by J. S. Tait; and Economic Insects, by J. W. 

 Toumey. 



