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intervals, and make the weighings and tests with the 

 apparatus or appliances specially adapted thereto. 



It has been suggested that there should be adopted in 

 England and Wales, with modifications suited to our own 

 conditions, the system already found to answer elsewhere 

 that is to say, a system under which the farmers and small 

 holders in a certain district would form themselves into a 

 society, adopt rules properly drawn up, raise funds by 

 means of entrance fees and annual subscriptions based on 

 the number of cows to be tested in each member's herd, and 

 employ an expert who would make his tests, enter the results 

 in suitable books, and give a certificate for each cow, at the 

 end of her lactation period, showing the amounts of milk 

 and of the butter fat therein which she had yielded. 



Two schemes for the formation of Co-operative Milk 

 Records Societies have been drawn up by the secretary of 

 the A. O. S., giving approximate estimates of the cost of 

 working for the first year and for the second or subsequent 

 years respectively. The first scheme is in respect to a 

 society of twelve members, to whose farms the expert would 

 pay fortnightly visits. The second scheme is for a society 

 of twenty-four farmers, who would themselves weigh their 

 milk each week, the expert paying monthly visits to their 

 farms to supervise the weighing and sampling, and to do the 

 actual testing. 



CATTLE AND THE TUBERCULIN TEST. 



One of the affiliated societies, the Wensleydale Pure Milk 

 Society, has adopted a line of policy which, if generally 

 followed up, should have a further important influence 

 on the future of the dairy industry. 



In addition to the other means adopted by the society, as 

 already told, to ensure a pure milk supply, attention was 

 directed to the taking of efficient means for dealing with the 

 question of tuberculosis in cattle. 



This further item on the society's programme was found 

 to be a difficult proposition, inasmuch as the farmers had to 



