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Cheese experiments at Tann sater, Ringebu, Norway, 1904. < ). I 

 {Tiilss/.r. Norske Landbr., 12(1905), No. .'. pp. 68 77). This contains a reporl of 

 experiments on the manufacture of goat cheese(gjedmyseost)ata Norwegian mountain 

 dairy, and a contribution to the question of the consolidation of mountain dairies. 



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Danish creamery statistics, 1904, .1. \. Dall (Odense, 1905, pp. 186 . This 

 reporl is published with government aid by the Bureau of Creamerj Statist 

 gives detailed statistics for 524 Danish creameries and contains a large amounl of 

 information on the conditions under which each creamery ia operating. Analyses 

 of skim milk and buttermilk and statistics in regard to the manufacture of cheese 

 are also given. 



A reporl on the operation of the Danish pasteurization law completes the volume. 

 This reporl Bhows that 1,267 Danish creameries were under governmenl control 

 under the law of March 26, L898, establishing measures for the eradication of bovine 

 tuberculosis. Of these creameries 1,105 are cooperative creameries, L33 proprietary, 

 and 29 estate dairies. — p. w. woll. 



Dairy control associations in Norway, 1903-4, L. I. I'i \m:i: (Aarsber. Offentl. 

 Foranst. Landbr. Fremme, 1904, i><- U /'/'■ 489-569).- The first dairy control associa- 

 tions were established in Norway in L899. They were patterned after tin- corre- 

 sponding I Danish institutions. 



The number of associations in L903-4 was L45, 26,671 cows being included. The 

 cows are tested regularly at intervals ranging from L3 to 30 days and averaging 19 

 days for the different associations. Detailed data for all the associations are given 

 in this report. The governmenl contributed about $6,300 annually to the expenses 

 of the associations, the balance being paid by the farmers whose herds were tested. 



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Report of Swedish butter exhibits, 1904, X. Engstrom | Lund, 1905, pp 

 The reporl contains the usual information as regards the butter exhibits conducted 

 during the year. The results of determinations of the fat content- of samples of 

 skim milk from Swedish creameries, the refractive indexes of the butter, and its 



contents of volatile fatty acids arc also presented in the report.— p. w. woll. 



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Report of proceeding's of eighth annual meeting of the Interstate Associa- 

 tion of Live Stock Sanitary Boards ( Proc. Interstate Assoc. Live Stock Sanit. Bds., 

 8 I 1904 >, pp. 110) . — At the eighth annual session of this association held in St. Louis, 



August '_>.'! and 24, L904, several paper- were read and discussions held which are of 

 interest from the standpoint of animal production and veterinary science. 



The objects pursued by the association were outlined by D. I". Luckey in an address 

 of welcome, and the importance of the work of live stock sanitary hoards was con- 

 sidered in the president's address, by J. < '. Norton. In this address attention was 

 called to work on Texas fever, tuberculosis, rabies, glanders, anthrax, etc. A paper 

 on the control of certain communicable diseases among domestic animals was read 

 by A. Peters, particular attention being given to the work of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry and State veterinarians in combating foot-and-mouth disease, Texas fever, 

 and tuberculosis. 



L. A. Klein discussed the subjeel of crude petroleum as a cattle dip tor the destruc- 

 tion of ticks. Cattle dipped in Beaumonl oil did iiol suffer any permanent injury; 

 a few became stiff and losl appetite for a day or two. The effects upon the ticks 

 were more satisfactory when the hairof the cattle was long in the fall and when the 

 vitality of the ticks was less pronounced. The chief objection to dipping in oil 

 appears to be the long period during which the cattle musi he held after dipping. 

 It appears, however, that the average cosl of dipping and of feeding and caring for 



