T3^^2 INDUSTRIKS DICPICNDING ON ANIMAL I'RODTTCTS 



ing that co-operation must be develdped and an immediate demand made 

 for: i) the reduction of the carriage rates and the provision of cold storage 

 wagons in sufficient quantity (Lahitte, Berg^s and Fynn) ; 2) the aboli- 

 tion or reduction of taxes (lyAHiTTE, Berge;s, Fynn and Perez) ; 3) the in- 

 spection of milk intended for consumption (Berg^s) and butter (Lahitte, 

 Berges and Perez) ; 4) the sanitary inspection of cow-sheds (Berge;s) ; 

 5) the foundation of practical schools for the dairy industry (I^ahitte and 

 Berge;s) ; 6) shows of animals and products (Berg:6s, Fynn, and Perez). 



The writer is in favour of cooperation and even of compulsory co-opera- 

 tion, as likewise of the estabUshment of mixed co-operative societies of pro- 

 ducers and farmers. He studies in detail the question of the establishment 

 of co-operative societies in each of the milk-producing provinces, with geo- 

 graphical maps of the latter ; he also treats of the scientific, economic and 

 legal bases for the " h^-gienisation " of milk, and concludes by setting out 

 a draft law which embraces all his desiderata. 



Practical Results. — The writer presented his essaj^ in 1910 and from 

 that date to 1916 he has secured : i) the establishment in Januarj- 1911 

 of a dairj' industry bureau in the General livestock Direction ; 2) the pro- 

 mulgation on the 20th August 1915, of a law declaring the " hygienisation " 

 of milk compulsory" in every town with more than 10 000 inhabitants, and 

 proposing the establishment of mixed co-operative societies : 3) the holding 

 of a series of lectures the result of which was the creation of 5 supervising 

 and inspecting societies, 2 of which in particular are in operation ; 4) the 

 promulgation of a decree under date of the 17th December 191 5, which 

 estabhshes national inspection of dair^' products ; 5) the publication by the 

 Dair3" Industry and Refrigeration Bureau of an edition of 20,000 copies of 

 a booklet in which the dairy qualities of cattle are discussed ; 6) the creation 

 of educational provisions for the improvement of the dair}' industry, in 

 the f acult)' of medicine and veterinary science of Buenos Aires, and in a large 

 number of schools of agriculture. 



1022 - Influence of Mechanical Milking with the " Omega" Milker on the Bacterio- 

 logical Composition of Milk. — Burri R. und IIohl Joh., iu Lundwirtscha/tHchcs J uhr- 

 buck der Schweiz, XXXth J'ear, Part 2, pp. 241-255. Berne, 1916. 



The experimental Station of Berne-Liebefeld has carried out a series 

 of experiments in mechanical milking with the " Omega " milker, with a 

 view to determining not only the economic desirability of mechanical milk- 

 ing under the conditions peculiar to Switzerland, but also its influence on 

 the milk production of cows (i) and that exerted on the bacteriological com- 

 position of the milk, as compared with hand milking. 



The report subimitted b}' the writers is preceded by a short biblio- 

 graphical statement on the question, and gives in detail the results of the 

 bacteriological anah^sis of samples of milk obtained imder the following 

 conditions : 



i) Mechanical milking on the methods usually employed for clean- 

 ing the milking appliances ; 



(1) Sec li. 1913, N° 1073. (7?^;.) 



