effect within a very short period after the milk has been 
first drawn = will of course fail to be detected by 
as, Br biae been sug; ted | 
ways be us $ 
nton ber a s hydrometer, one being 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETE; 
the subjacent mel when the instrument is held 
Aate to the light; ; if, on the contrary, the specimen | 
be of inferior quality, w whether from innate poverty, or | 
the admixture "3 er, Ea diminution o opacity | 
thence resulting 1 be evi by the e scale | e: 
sup 
e indicati nae of the other. 
= ning t 
{Jury 21, 1860, 
are ted. Those that 
brought a Considerable nG on last 
instance as m S. per he: Wedders 
ap eee in atiabers by the 
celle nt condition now, from ¢ the 
are sold have 
year—in on 
being } qd 
ata greater i 
Sold with 
Avery | rom i mode of the richness | piak oi ‘the ye ce, and brought an bag ind advance of, about 2y. 
of milk was devi ne SA grant The | scale; the degree of pentia ioes therefore, can be |In wool the transections up to a late hour haye not 
instrument which E pidr PaRa a lat e, is measured by the number of lines visible through the | been a ap a those lips which Bi ve been: sold 
constructed on a conga principle altogether “rom fluid. bear no trace eE price of any deterioration in 
either of the ra ng, quality from the year’s severity. In several instances 
judge of the richness of a porin of milk, by m Home Corresponden buyers have either ag or by their agents 
wae thickness of a film of this fluid through which. $ i Power.—We cannot over-estimate “the — visited the farms, and c gio, Mhe "ten Jotationg ot 
t this m ction sale: 
body, pla T NTER hicker. will ky — Lie Le or phn toes ii lif we e | very fair proof that, roe makine ep ce he 
film tl = ight a be A employ it to perform our eee yl cnc hal by | high rates everywhere prevailing, e; nig oir £ 
and the measure core hi so is provided for by a} ite use prolong the lives of ant Ho rses, by reliving Highland she d this s year. But Siae, can be no 
scale attached to the i instr | them from that comets of ined “about ohio tends to | doubt that, as was remarked at the ordinary, the force 
The chief objections to the ‘employment of the lacto- | bring on pe — eca: orten their time o of circumstances, the vastly increased means traffic, 
scope; ai at least for farge ev ery-day e lal 7 ar damn mai sent should h: i f the w ool sales, and the satisfaction given 
lt introd m with a hear élcome, and | by the commission a agents in disposing of stocks, are 
wing to ee Tia of do all he to assist others in promoting its beginning er tell upon the amount of transactions at 
its s construction. Te requires i be taken asunder r every usefulness. T. venture to t an addition to the | Inverness. Things were very different some 10 years 
—— its successful operations at cog Then, as a rule, every hill farmer to the North 
in eni or the screw bee a ink that we should t the fair with his year’s sales completed, 
embarrassed ; io fot tN itg seine careless ‘Anskilfal empioyi ing RAe power to better advantage ifi a plough | and his year’ ade; while o-day we 
not fail short time, un- i constructed with subsoil shares to follow the | safe to say that not one-fourth of the wool has 
pie rs. ugh the manure down rgained about here, rely 
Lastly, of the aE. Wit th the aid of this 
valuable instrument the number, size, and s shape, of the 
cream-particles y any | 
who archi expert in its manipulation, and in 
this way m y be formed a tolerably fair esti mate of te | 
quality of any given sample of milk; it must 
admitted, iene: that few, cones EREA 
have attained to the requisite degree of skill and ex- 
3 should 
pes y, 8 inches is sufficient ; i we should consi peta 
| stir the subsoil 10 inches in sanio sak both thes 
| operations should be performed a time. B. 
Ransley, Perrysfield Far: 
a. 
oy in the end kill the apes tree, 
pany 
flower pap reps which, wi 
opinion from aa use of this gerunt wit to some 
cii pE and flower ed this s year, 
vhen they 
so much OAE 
each other as individuals, but ing every inter ost in 
common, and without any sein is of great import- 
ance. eae ee are compared frankly and u niver- 
| may be interesting, a 
pA 
eneral consent—and 
icul 
lai introduced to attention than at our annual fair 
Inverness Cou 
HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL.—At the late half- 
yearly pipes meeting of this Society 51 new members 
r. Hall Maxwell, in the absence 
S 
completed reer that there is every an d a 
tisfactory successful meei A com 
the kemie and those in Jin 1845, when the 
gratifying 
Dairy i | Ae E ‘ 
Implements 
- 1808 
The Secretary intimated that arrangements wa oa 
in “progress oe the Perth Show in 1861 and for the 
Kelso = n 1862. 
he Chemical Department.—Dr. And 
that ek activity had prev evailed during 
in the chemical department o 
number of Lig es made for membe 
er t thai usual, 
a been much |: 
ra agr 
collateral aid. The ay aap fa good m si aye is | harvest will poll commence. 
also a serious impediment to its general ih My 
lactoscopic instrument. | S59 BPS SS ees N E ie 
It willappear, therefore, í from what has been hag. | S/S) 818) 2) 818 
the hands of ordinary observers, try supply the means ERT kka tea ae, (oe se 
of * sews ea approximately, or in a rough way, | BISlelelglgié 3 
without much trouble, and in a hot time, the compa- | ke beet Sect! E Ra Ae A: S 
rative richn f milk, is still a desideratum. | $j 8|5|5|8;8|3 ie 
ical difficulty whic nded the employment a 
of the several me ilk-testing hitherto in use, | ARRIR gls Pls 
is attribu some measure to the fact that | Slelalels|s\s Eel oe 
upon any scale that a be gavs l, upon any principle xojis gsl sje 5 2 
w Oa bale one pon to whicli we can refer Sa TP Se ery ae: ka 
a puri a we = g g 
— aot EBGUHHER 
ot oer by on sev ae A a ed slels|s 
can seize upon some phy “whieh stele elelele | 2 i 
dniite” of sefislently - accura for Pere! sialsisre PaaS 
the p poseg ; then, it has be en “ascertained | that an | sj = at A 8| s| bo | Eig” 
inferior | bral Ae) ol aleve Aa es H 
below thi: > ape) el > 
by the pomemben “of some of cream ; an in Ex N : |> E | Ela ala a 
quality is ate & at caged when. ie perce ntage of cream Os ling: AA R S ee” Rae 
is less t the instrument bet pad wl ira Ih : Eg 
ployed for. exhibiting this per centage is Ba nd to ii > i 8 | 
falla pon inasmuch as it only pra uch cream eben E AE H & p < 
ted to the surface in , and experi- Pes he iy ca Gil aR fs a | 
ee sje] s/ss] | 3 3 
oei tn toate Ttr r k iN g 
joie’ pretty eee as to the gee of aE by ele Ey E E E o 
carefully observing the transparency which the S tee ti pi 
exhibited when poured in a thin film from sis a | |S; 8) 7}ea]s 
other ; and it would appear that this property, which = i 
the instrument of M. Donné, pen Seat keel 6) ETE Be 
might ed to account in the construction RIRIR IS) 2% 
of a more simple instrument, which would indicate we} re} rlalalm go 
Sea and enable us to register numerically the = 
of traneparonog p d a given sample; “odza ggzg3 e 
session of a very efficient ESS >222325 g 
means which the milk had ras hPa oe 5 
wand diluted, or how be it fell short of the average eee ore Bi x 
BSSeesae¢ ; 
Suck an instrument has lately been maar = = 
pridige of its construction is pde anivempoly 8 aan M. Caldecott, Holbrook Grange, near 
pen oe RSC wert pers view of test its Rughy, ai 16. 
—_—_ 
t to ‘ave: at Senate with the most sai X Societies. 
is ma 
in the form of a ear oblong vessel, capable of 
containing about an ounce of aT the depth of the 
„is made to “increase » gradua y, by m eans o 
f a slab beg 
ZKA 
REAPING MACHINE COMPETITION AT Paris.—We 
g to announce that on Monday, July 23 and pt 
the oe) this slab is pic sxe ae its entire | 
Je 
ena, Upon of the ok : ARA G= = vessel is 
lled, and a cover of pla t on—this 
ld be di egi exclude 
re bubbles, | Woes the vessel mh of ages is thus 
fi an international reaping machine t 
will be held at Fouilleuse, near Saint Cloud, five ‘ais 
from Paris, when medals and prizes will be awarded. 
NVERNESS SHEE 
P Pf 
—The extra- 
whic m may ree safely set down at 
orainary loss of — 
50 f a defici 
kinds, and several pr roblems of very great in impo 
— been pie to him Ga games h 
mbers of t pa regard 
ety, he mig fe 
Sanader E i 
z zi 
GURE 
g 
Sega. 
ail 
were 
nT sgt am 
relation to their feeding propria and in an anin- 
a of see > properties of oilcake, and 
Ee Milne s said he want perhaps be 
of sur 
to begin naar and at gorse Sa rates. Some of the best 
Sutherland lots fetched from 17s. 6d. to 16s., and had 
there been twice the number to dispose of at these 
p ices they would have been readily bought. It is the lt 
tention, we und 
the better part of them, toi increase Xf possible the crop | 
of many farmers to retain | loss, 
hensions f the ' Pat bii- and he 
y Tomiag rovided ` 
covered, the degree of dilution 
under ination is estimated ew the number of 
deg hich can through the 
glass cover ; for, the ae being in parte with the 
edge of the enamel plate at one end, and separated | 
from it by a gradually increasing interval towards the | in’ 
other, the intervening stratum of milk is made to} 
sume the i the fluid und 
in oily and 
an amount 
t of 
on 
to part with at Falkirk, or some other stock market 
There can be little doubt of good prises for this | 
description of stock during the whole season, as their 
it wa soa 
hss A on his — 
tting ravages in other ap reget 
pent iy ae ie 
