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Cow Insurance Clubs. 



[Sept., 



At the conclusion of the meeting, the following resolution was 

 passed : — 



" That this meeting, having heard Professor Van Nor- 

 man's statement of the objects, etc., of the World's Dairy 

 Congress to be held in the United States of America in 

 October, 1923, is of opinion that this country should be 

 adequately represented at the Congress, and it requests the 

 Ministry of Agriculture, in conjunction with the Ministry 

 of Health, to invite the various associations and bodies 

 interested in the Milk Industry to nominate representatives 

 to serve on a General Committee to organise the represen- 

 tation of the Industry in England and Wales at the 

 Congress." 



A Committee on the lines indicated in this Resolution is now 

 being formed. 



During the last three years the Ministry has arranged for 

 trials with, potatoes to be carried out in several districts with 

 Shrinka e of ^^^^ object of ascertaining the amount of 

 Potatoes shrinkage that takes place in the clamp, 

 in Clamps ^^^^ possibility of preventing the spread 



of disease in the clamps by treating in 

 the following manner : — (1) spraying during growth, (2) sprink- 

 lin.o- with quicklime when clamped, (3) sprinkling with sulphur 

 when clamped. 



It appeared in the earlier trials that the sulphur treatment 

 checked the spread of disease in the clamps, but in 1921 no 

 disease appeared in the haulm or tubers on any of the plots and 

 no diseased tubers were found when the clamps were opened, 

 so that verification of this could not be obtained. 



As regards shrinkage, the average weight of potatoes put in 

 each clamp on 16th September, 1921, was 2 cwt. 78 lb. On 

 the opening of the clamps on 17th March, 1922, the average 

 weight was 2 cwt. 28 lb., a shrinkage of 50 lb. or 16 per cent. 



One of the best examples of a successful co-operative Cow 

 Insurance Club for small farmers and small holders is at 

 Moulton Chapel, near Spalding. The 



insurance Clubs, f """^"^ ^^T^ ^7 J'^^™'''' ^^"t 



been run contmuously tor 38 years entirely 



by small cow-keepers living within a radius of a few miles of 



Moulton Chapel. The 24 simple " Eules and Regulations" 



