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TEE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



Cold Storage Profits. 



THE S.A. Cold Storage Co. during the 

 year ended June 30th made net 

 profits amounting to over a million 

 pounds sterling. The company's reserve 

 fund stands at £1,000,000. Dividends at 



the rate of 55 per cent, per annum have 

 been paid during the year, besides a bonus 

 of 10s. per share, and £44,463 5s. Id. has 

 been carried forward. 



Pasturised Milk fo!^ Calves. 



THE manager of a well-known Central 

 dairy thus writes to the " Queensland 

 Country Life," respecting the above : — 

 During the 17 months since the opening 

 of our creamery we have had some 200 

 milk suppliers on our books. This summer 

 we "Were receiving about 1,500 gallons of 

 milk daily, a large portion of which 

 supply still continues. During that time, 

 although there were complaints in neigh- 

 bouring creameries of sickness and death 

 among calves, attributed to separated 

 milk, with us there was not one complaint 

 of a calf even being sick from our 

 pasteurised milk, our calves being as good 

 as or better than under the old system. 

 During one fortnight, however, when we 

 could not pasteurise owing to improve- 

 ments being in progress in our machinery, 

 many complaints were made of scour 

 among our calves ; so much so that our 

 suppliers threatened a revolt unless we at 

 once resumed pasteurising. Our separated 

 milk has also proved an excellent food for 

 pigs. Separated milk, if pasteurised, is 

 superior as food to the old buttermilk, 

 formerly the main food of calves in 

 Ulster ; for, although 10 gallons of 

 separated pasteurised milk will contain 

 about half a pound less butter-fat than 

 the same quantity of buttermilk, it will 

 contain 4|lb. of sugar, which in the 

 buttermilk will have been destroyed as 

 food, having been converted by the bac- 

 teria into lactic acid containing nourish- 

 ment, whereas sugar is a valuable food for 



young animals or even adults, as is shown 

 by its being the main article of diet 

 among the West Indian native. Our 

 separated milk is used by our people of 

 all classes as an article of food, and is 

 preferred by many to the old buttermilk. 

 Pasteurisation is the best preventive 

 known for the spread of infection by any 

 dairy product, so that the public will be 

 greatly benefited by its becoming general. 

 In Denmark the " pasteurising law " 

 obliges every spoo' ful of creamery milk 

 to be pasteurised, e /en if fed to pigs. 



The popularity of citrus fruits is increasing 

 year by year in the most regular manner in Eng- 

 land. Ten years ago the value of the imported 

 oranges and lemons came to £1,756,852. In 1895 

 it was £2,476,510, whilst last year it reached a 

 very high point, representing £2,635,471. This 

 total has never been exceeded in the whole his- 

 tory of the trade, with the exception of the year 

 1897, when the value was £2,677,070, the result 

 of an exti a plentiful crop. 



Cardinal Wolsey, who occupied Hampton C9urt, 

 did rot bretd horses, but he kept a consider- 

 able stable retinue and stud. He had a master of 

 the horse, a clerk of the stable, a yeoman of the 

 stable, a saddler, farrier, yeoinan of the chariot, 

 sumpter man to look after pack animals, a yeo- 

 man of the st rrup, a muleteer, and sixteen 

 grooms ; the nvmberof helpers does not appear. 

 He kept a hundred horses and mules for his own 

 household, escort and carts, and there were "six 

 horses to wait on my Lord at Hampton Court 

 and other piiices, and six grey and white ambling 

 mules for my Lord's own saddle." 



