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of manufacture which scientific research has placed 

 at their disposal, and their reward is justly reaped 

 in the prosperity of their dairy industry and the 

 high reputation enjoyed by their produce. If we 

 contrast the adaptability and elasticity of the con- 

 tinental mind in regard to new discoveries with 

 the crude conservatism of the British manufacturer, 

 then, indeed, is the success of our rivals and corre- 

 sponding decline of our own prosperity most per- 

 fectly intelligible. 



Again, we are informed that the recent visit to 

 London of a deputation representing Russian 

 agricultural interests is already bearing fruit, and 

 contracts have been signed for the regular impor- 

 tation of large quantities of Russian dairy produce. 

 The English market is already well supplied with 

 Russian eggs, but an opening has now been found 

 here for the disposal of Russian butter and cheese. 



Finland, again, the total population of which is 

 less than half that of London, exports to this 

 country no less than 12 million marks' worth of 

 butter annually. 



As a writer recently put it: "Foreigners and 

 colonists have captured our butter markets ; if the 

 consumption of milk sterilised in bottles becomes 

 the fashion, they will likewise capture our milk 

 markets." And this is no fanciful suggestion, for 

 whilst the production of Pasteurised milk does not 



