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lire, that limit has uiuloubtedly been reached. Other countries — 

 yes, and even municipal bodies politic — have proved that forests 

 may be made to carry a large part, if not the entire burden of 

 local government. Where trees have such rapid growth as they 

 have in Hawaii, the utilization of forests for revenue is some- 

 thing that can be accomplished well within a generation. Since 

 the fodder value of the algaroba bean has been thoroughly dem- 

 onstrated, although yet only beginning to be developed, that par- 

 ticular tree of itself, with its marvelously quick growth, ought to 

 be made as lucrative for revenue as mines of precious metals. 



If legislation is needed to enforce the reasonable precautions 

 against the recrudescence of bovine tuberculosis, where it has 

 once been brought under effective control, which the Territorial 

 veterinarian urges, then the coming session of the Legislature 

 ought not be allowed to pass without enacting the requisite meas- 

 ures. Nothing short of compulsory destruction of condemned 

 animals and thorough disinfection of the buildings and pastures 

 that have harbored them should be the law of the land. No coun- 

 try has exceeded this Territory in the completeness with which 

 dairy herds have been purged of tubercularly-infected cattle, or 

 in the economy with which that result has been secured, yet, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Norgaard, the task must wearisomely be repeated 

 unless the sources of infection be absolutely eliminated. That 

 means to this end be taken the Forester would urge as earnestly 

 as it has the enforcement of the provisions for cleanliness in 

 dairies, slackness in which respect the veterinarian has exposed as 

 nullifying in great measure the protection milk consumers have 

 received from the eradication of consum])tive cows from dairy 

 herds. 



AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION IN AUSTRALIA. 



From a .serial article running in the Journal of y\griculture, 

 Victoria, by P. J. Carroll, senior inspector of dairy ])ro(lucc, the 

 following extracts arc taken : 



"A movement was begun alxnit the middle of the year 1900 

 amongst a number of cooperative butter factories to form a central 

 association, the headquarters of which were to bo in the city. 

 The objects of this association were to receive ami dispose of the 

 ])roduce of the factories, and undertake all thr duties previously 

 carried out by ])rivate agents. 



"Tliis was the first ])urely cotipcrativc distributing C()m])any in 

 Australia. 



"At the time operations were commenced the paid-up capital <>f 

 the company (The Victorian lluttcr Factories Cooperative Com- 

 pany. Limited) was £1,490. Tt is claimed that enormous savings 

 have been effected in the cost of marketing the produce, and lliat 



