Danish Butter Quotations. 



[JULY, 



the souring of milk. This mould is commonly found in old or 

 stale milk, showing that milk and cream are probably one of its 

 chief habitats. The dairy expert to the New South Wales 

 Department of Agriculture — Mr. O'Callaghan — therefore advises 

 farmers to do away with all receptacles in which old decomposed 

 milk is kept. It is a common thing, he says, to find what is 

 called the " pig tub " just outside the dairy door. This pig tub 

 is partly emptied each day for the purpose of pig feeding ; but, 

 unfortunately, it is seldom thoroughly cleaned, and a breeding- 

 ground for undesirable organisms is thus constantly kept in 

 close proximity to the cream. 



Mr. O'Callaghan has found the mould in old timber buildings > 

 and he states that dairies with timber roofs, without ceilings, 

 not frequently washed with quicklime or some disinfectant, 

 are common centres of infection. The mould resting on old 

 timber slabs bespattered with milk or cream does not cause 

 any noticeable smell. The spores or seeds fall into the cream 

 and cause trouble in due course, and when a district becomes 

 thoroughly infected the good often suffer with the bad. 

 Like most microbic troubles, human and otherwise, this butter 

 •disease may be spasmodic. It suddenly appears in districts 

 where it was never heard of before, and it may disappear just as 

 suddenly as it came, to recur again at a favourable opportunity. 



It has been announced in the Danish Butter Trade Journal 



(Smdr Tidende) that the publication of the particulars of the 



Danish weekly butter prices is to be 



Danish Butter discontinued, and that, from the ist July, 

 Quotations. . 



only one figure will be made known to the 



public, viz., the average weekly price received by all the 

 reporting dairies, expressed to one place of decimals, in kroner 

 per 100 Danish pounds. It appears that the publication of a 

 single exceptionally high price paid for a special brand of butter 

 induces dairies in general to demand a similar return for their 

 butter. The above-mentioned reform has been made at the 

 request of a committee representing the agricultural and dairy 

 societies in Denmark. 



