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for 1908 was held on October 6-9, the entries being 8362, as com- 

 pared with 8175 in the previous year. The following were the 

 details: Cattle, 247; milking and butter tests, 224; goats, 72; 

 poultry, 3280; pigeons, 2564; British cheese, 357; bacon and hams, 

 76; butter, 668; cream, 47; skim milk bread, etc., 135; honey, etc., 

 85; poultry and pigeon appliances, 50; new and improved inven- 

 tions, 37; roots, 184; butter-making contests, 207; milkers' con- 

 tests, 132. The prizes were over 2500, including over 500 for 

 cattle. " 



Dairy Students' Union Yearbook for 1909. (Notice in Na- 

 ture, Vol. 83, April 21, 1910). 



The Dairy Students' Union was founded four years ago to assist 

 its members with advice and to create and stimulate interest in 

 scientific research and new inventions in the dairy world. 



The book contains several short articles by Messrs Blackshaw, 

 D. A. Gilchrist, T. R. Robinson, C. W. Walker-Tisdale and other 

 dairy writers. 



Dairy Farming on Mixed Land. (Live Stock Jmtr. (London), 70, 

 (1909). n. 1859. pp. 554, 555). E. S. R. March, 1910, Wa- 

 shington. 



This contains data on the number of acres required to keep a 

 cow in a good dairy district of Cheshre, England. On three ty- 

 pical farms the amount of land required varied from 2 to over 

 4 acres per cow. 



W. J. FRASER and R. E. BRAND. Dairy Suggestion from Euro- 

 pean Conditions as seen in the British Isles, Holland and 

 Denmark. (Illinois Sta. Bull., 140, 461-321, figs. 92)- E 

 S. R., XXII, May 1910. 



This bulletin reports a study during an entire summer of the 

 methods employed in the production of milk on the farms of the 

 intensive dairy countries of Great Britain, Holland, and Denmark. 



In the opinion of the authors the chief particulars in which the 

 European dairymen excel are uniformly good cows, economical 

 feeding, painstaking care of the stock, and sanitary methods of 

 handling milk, cream, butter, and cheese. Among other items 



