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iijacent building were a about as complete as could well ar — es A portion thereof would be gladl y ji in diamet filled with milk to within a short 
pe and, w Uk on | dist f the he surface of the fluid being made 
„ They are the 8, |its wa ns m Igrimage. A 60 r? years’ rotation is | to coincide with « a ‘transverse ‘lin ne drawn on the tube, 
put at, once removed and E pe mE in eee boxes wally ° AARE S a as 2 bane or Beans ;|and marked zero; the capacity of the tube from this 
4 feet by ee feet each, forming one side of the house; | 3. V t; 4 Tur 5. Barley, sown down; 6.|line downwards is divided into 100 equal parts or 
sof these compartments are 3} feet high, | (or A va 7) Gioi ani <a Rye-grass. degrees. When the tube thus filled has been suffered 
When ale gia they are shifted to the other side, | In er a three pa al manurings are given, | to Temain nae ig ins for a definite time, say 12 hours, 
and aie in [vik wee T n loads to the Boti tias or Beans, fll as as | or 24 hou , the quan tity of cream whic h shall have 
the ‘ase |m uch to the W heat, and another rae the Barl 
pes word a as an the Herd-book of the establishment, The Tur pips are grown with neri y 4l. per Scotch acre by an "inspection of the instrament held in a proper 
alw ust pass on nwa ard. n value nixtn of severa l t apy 1 | light e inferior | limit of the str: atum of cre eam is 
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oftheir hen t stock, and have accordingly arranged wit th egarded as food 10) a spe rected | which feos become ANNA: from ne r at the 
Mr. Ravenscroft, of Edinburgh, to fill up the blank. deposit sie to i bank (nother ear th) for every | time specified. In using this ee ae it is neces- 
* Hehas the confidence of all concerned, and from his | cheque that is drawn. ch tr eatment, sary to observe certain precautions : milk should be 
well-known abilities may be expected to form the com- | we. should, in the rs ghi- ass of wW 1 but the tube Bice: hoe oy filled till the 
mencement of a standard work, which will be filled oe expect see cely a single temperature of the place 
up as time rolls.on. But at Kinnaird a private herd- | of Barley at harvest: ia wear peui paea vat he ere it is destined to ee at rest; em piei 
is kept,,on a very excellent system. a tor the yield of corn deficient n quantity and light mass of milk should oy "be well „Sti irred u me- 
‘five columns, viz., for date, sex, name, s d | quality—while the “seeds ” oa be literally pilictes diately I th 
remarks; each cow has a separate page for herself, and | Mr. Bowie’s gorane is that lodging is symptomatic o of | lactometer when filled should be ae Autoa for 
her name is given atthe i her descendants followin; ue | weakness arising from a lack of food in the “es ; soa | about 12 hours if the weather be warm, for 24 if it be 
in the columns referred to - e cow neal got at | hence ce he takes the “a mode, or at least t ae cold. 
by th to simpli l, to prevent it. But as already arked, his 
matters, t 1 (who names all the stock himself j land | is of a pesca character—bro 
pee b: names s alphabetically, so pen each bull or | on gravel; i and sandy ers avel reat wi 
f foll other’s name. | required) ; P drained at 5 53 “yards | preg ‘the more of the caper is the milk s sup- 
n opening the page allotted to 5 Ade,” we find | distances ; and — sh loam on sand sfar as this goes, nothing can be 
UBE Adamant, shiebgeaair: — (her progeny), | d drained m Such soils wil naturally. stand | more simple and satisfactory, if it were only true, but 
following in the wake. A richly-finished an ieai heavier pita s ai manure than clay f the instrument 
yolume is kept for the Castle Br e -the new red sandstone formation. But we must | in question are fallacious, and calculated to lead to the 
also look at the fact that he has got an |most erroneous conclusions pen fl in the case oi 
Mars o KE ig x HERD AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. | ample supply of saline ingredients to the soil, | those milks in r to which it is most important 
This farm stock and its Gai arrangements— | v which as is well known, strengthen the | that the informati supplied by this test should be bd 
is well svrorth ¢ teen all the way from W: "This supply comes from proximity to the |accurate as possible— mple, in those cases 
see; and Mr. Bowie, the intelligent occupie n Oce: d; | which milk is supplied By cantet à in E liege duie 
much of real Scottish ern. ern, in ie amet, |8 also En the thousands upon tho usands of loads of | to public c institutions. _ The fact is Ba se recog that 
tion, that we are sure r has engone wi et i weed an = has at one tung or lied 
receiving a courteous a on You will b hete eas we, on the banks of the Avon, are as far r from | they call milk, at a price so excessively low that they 
either a steam plough or cultivato man > the action of ithir the one or the other as we could mue ks ither = = lange a sec Se of water, or si 
$ of pipes for liqui uid manure distribution, por a| well be in any part of the British Islands. At all us loss anagers of large institutions 
d in any ; but you | events, at Mains of Kelly, lodged corn is almos nger t this so-called milk at the 
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find a first-class farm, under -class m anagem ment — known, and a Burgess & Key’s reaper finds few estes ane regret t bei h provided the lactometer prep a 
and so many matters. of deal to be seen that all may | from the beginning to eF See of harvest. T. Bow ertain per e of er reference to the 
_ learn something. Arbroa: aer, Ahorbrothiok, ig (To be continued.) effec t which the a ition on ite to milk exercises on 
the pines ie of the lactometer, Dr. Hassall, who has 
a drive ree miles or e turn ppi ike va | made the analysis of very numerous specimens of milk, 
lie ioe you EE g wa at x à RICHNESS OF MILE. makes the following remarks :— it BR IE ob 
: tas you: Arbroath, and but a few hundre RSS 2 “Tt is stated,” he says, “t e addition of a 
yards re German m rolls in with pein, cand te oma Si ae a Mickin small quantity of warm 3 to milk increases the 
rocky or sandy bi - paea C WHueEn we consider that milk enters, in some form or amount of cream: the belief in the accuracy of this 
ats of the fishermen, or an Aberdeen or | other, into the composition of the food of almost every statement p ply ow —the addition of water 
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s cipal, andin many instances the sole, support of the merety facilitates mers ‘has ens, in a most remarkable 
© | very you ng, it is of importance e that we should be in| manner, its formation and pice, as is shown by 
n o e means of ascertaining the co mapa. | what follows :— vere filled, one with pure milk, the 
while thie ee ee oba sy Dut remainder with the nira milk atl epetly th 
few articles of food are more nently wa t to | 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 per ¢ 
fraudulent hoger See than qn uid in ex in “In 20 minutes, the Inctometer contain ning are milk 
I the Rover ” in his wanton mirth so | But, althou any substances supposed to have showed but half a degree of cream; in 40 minutes it 
wickedly destroyed. Southey well-expresses-the- his- i ht i urpose eres imparting colour or | Showed 4°; and at the as of 12 hours rin showed 9°. 
torical tradition :— consistence to milk EREA 
A ously d tad y ins 
His eye was on the bell and float ; the evidence of very numerous Piatto is in favour | Showed in 20 minutes 
Pegnte, ty m is pha seen the boat, “| of the belief, that perhaps, in most instances, the pump and at the mher: of 12 hours 5°. $ 
— And P pee the priest of Aberbrothock.” is the chief or only contributor; the dealers g k sii rown up 
Voila head in oad tins tote OK quite aware of the feat that, while starch, flour, | 0n the other A tubes, viz., those containing 10, 20, 30, 
Hebe bed Incheape Rock they go; n-be detected with tolerable | and 40 per-centage of water, was y great ; 
Sir Ralph bent over from the boat, acility, t Sof water will a of being | the two ex 
cut the warning bell from the float ! ” pects prety g and yet fail to os exposed by | to exhibit more pro tly the results which were 
Bat by and =a Ye, Sir Ralph returns sapa with spoil the tests ordinarily employ A 
To. pe with accuracy the quantities of the “Tt thus assall, “ that the 
seth hence of a given specimen of milk will, | addition of a geome quan antity of ive to milk occasions 
f i i 1 | an almost immediate wget ion of cream, me does not 
Till the vessel strikes wit with sero shock— Seals for which purpose an expensive he: augment the amount; of this fact, cases, it 
Alas! It is the Inchcape Rock !” necessary, while the process is of merce both alion 
Atnight this ee is clearly seen SS. E. from Mains and] aborio ous, od not at all adapted to the re asra: The addition of water to milk of course rene its 
- of Kelly, and th f ordinary cases, in which a daily examination ya gravity, and so facilitates the ascension of the 
“East Nook of Fife" to the S.S.W. The ` noble-estua ary | must be aa i It therefore became necessary that a 
of the Tay stretches away to the right with a large | some more simple method should be devised of estimat Now, it would appear from this ore that we 
extent of ‘sandy links adjacent to the shore, and t the ing approximatively the qualities of this fluid. The | are 
Sarry Hills and —— “Law ” forming b ilk-t ted | that just quoted. Her gaat 100 parts of pure 
Hfehice ‘Over the the sweet ce and dales ot are well known, the principal being, 1st, the lactometer, ee milk Sibling 9° of cre hile 50 parts of the same 
are plainly ogee th and far beyond may, h Banks; 2d, —— reer aca ixed with 50 of w reg are found to to yield 6} of 
4 clear day, be seen Bast Lothian and the summits of the | si jino ge gravity te st; 3d, the lactoscop M. Pa m. Sa he relative prop: rtion of cream existing 
sos daca é; and 4th, the microscope. sabe pure and diluted milk is as 2 to 1; while the 
Mains of Kelly Farm is on the Panmure prop perty ene may be necessary to make a few remarks on the | ropata ‘separable f pan the two fluids respectively i is 
some 300 or more Scotch acres of eth se of these several instruments, and first, of the | Shown by the lacto to be as 1.385 to 1 (9 to 63). 
land, Pra Saa tae: long in Mr. Dats.: family, his | lactometer. It is plain, poate ahah, the pe ; 
t Lot hian, | A Bet tube 
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