388 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Royal Swedish Agl. Dept. No. 1, 1897, No. 36). — The report gives the amounts of but- 

 ter and cheese exported from and imported into Sweden during the years 1891-'95; 

 the number of Swedish creameries and cheese factories, and their total production; 

 measures taken by the various county agricultural societies for the advancement of 

 dairying ; State and county dairy educational institutions ; State butter exhibitions ; 

 dairy associations; freight rates for dairy products on the State railways on and 

 after July 1, 1896; description of the methods of manufacture of two kinds of 

 cheese adapted for export purposes, Swedish estate cheese (" herrgards-ost") and 

 Gouda cheese; law of registered trade-marks of June 28, 1895; catalogue of dairy 

 schools, dairy instructors, and creameries and cheese factories (by counties). 



The number of creameries and cheese factories in operation at the end of 1895 was 

 1,793. At 1,420 of these butter only was manufactured, at 211 full-cream cheese, 

 and at 162 butter and cheese (partly skim). The total production during 1895 was: 

 Butter, 24,926,679 kg. ; full-cream cheese, 2,123,287 kg. ; half skims, 742,487 kg., and 

 skims, 4,048,701 kg. The milk handled by the factories amounted to 741,441,981 kg., 

 and the total number of patrons was 54,618. — F. w. woll. 



Dairying in foreign countries, B. Boggild (Malkeribruget i fremmede Lande. 

 Copenhagen: Nord. Forlag, 1897, Ft. I). — This companion volume of "Dairying in 

 Denmark" by the same author will be published in 7 parts (at 1 krone, 26.8 cts.) 

 during the current year. It will treat of dairying in its characteristic features in 

 Switzerland, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Finland, 

 Sweden, Norway, and the United States. 



Heating and ventilating stables, B. Martiny (Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), No. 16, pp. 

 145, 146, figs. 3). 



Contributions from dairy division, Mustiala experiment station, R. Gripen- 

 berg (Meddelandenfrdn Mustiala Forsoksstationa Mejeriaf deling. Aabo (Finland), 1S96, 

 pp. 123, 132). — Separate print of papers and reports published by the author during 

 1881-'96). 



Dairying in Norway, 1896 (Norsk Landmansblad, 16 (1S97), pp. 13-15). 



Is a ration with a wide or a narrow nutritive ratio preferable for milch cows? 

 B. Martiny (Fiilhing's landw. Ztg., 46 (1897), No. 13, pp. 392-396). —The article quotes 

 at length work published in the Annual Report of Massachusetts Hatch Station for 

 1896 (E.S. R.,9, p. 380). 



Milk and butter yield of ten Breitenburg cows, Neumann (Milch Ztg., 26 (1S97), 

 No. ..'3, pp. 359-361). 



Effect of adding fat to the rations of milch cows (Dent, landw. Ztg.; abs. in 

 Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), No. 14, p. 216). — The results of a number of experiments in 

 adding fat or tallow to the rations of cows are reviewed. Tallow when fed for 

 sometime increased neither the yield nor the fat content of the milk. During the 

 first two weeks the fat content appeared to be increased, but this effect disappeared 

 later. 



New milk-pasteurizing apparatus in Denmark, A. Lavalle (Milch Ztg., 26 

 (1897), Nos. 9, pp. 134, 135, figs. 3; 10, pp. 146-148, figs. 5; 11, pp. 162-164, figs. 2; 12, 

 pp. 179-181, figs. 4). 



A new method of sterilization by heat under pressure (Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), 

 No. 15, p. 229). 



Pure lactic cultures of bacteria in cheese making, H. L. Russell (Jour. Boy. 

 Agr. Soc. England, 3. ser., 8 (1897), I, pp. 141-152). — A reprint from the Annual 

 Report of the Wisconsin Station for 1896. 



Observations from creamery practice, Hoffmann (Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), Xo. 

 14, pp. 212-214). — Remarks on the payment for milk on the fat basis, the feeding of 

 cows, production of milk by herds, etc. 



Payment for milk at creameries, A. Arnstadt (Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), No. 11, 

 l)p. 161, 162). 



Investigations on some frequent defects in consistency of butter and their 

 causes, and on the constitution of fat globules, V. Storch (Milch Ztg., 26 (1897), 



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