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Butter Legislation in Belgium. 



[NOV., 



mouthshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wilt- 

 shire, and Yorkshire North Riding. 



The returns from Wales were of a fairly satisfactory character, 

 though no information was received respecting certain counties. 



The distribution of diseases in Scotland is very general. 

 Louping-ill, Braxy, and Trembles are reported from Argyll, 

 Berwickshire, Bute, Clackmannan, Dumfriesshire, Inverness, 

 Skye, Lanark, Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrew, 

 Ross, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Stirlingshire ; Udder-clap from 

 Berwickshire, East Lothian, Roxburgh and Selkirk ; Liver- 

 fluke from Argyll, Caithness, Renfrew, and Wigtownshire ; 

 Swingback from Aberdeenshire, Dumfriesshire ; Navel-ill from 

 Forfar ; and Sturdy from Roxburgh. In some counties no 

 serious attacks of disease are recorded, but the past year is 

 reported as being an exceptionally bad one for sheep farming 

 in Argyll and Ross. 



The Butter Law which is now in force in Belgium was passed 

 in 1903, and a translation is given in the minutes of evidence 

 of the Butter Regulations Committee.* By 

 Butter legislation this j aw the sa j e Q f butter containing an 

 in Belgium. _ \ 



excess 01 water was made subject to the 



following regulation : — " Butter containing more than 18 per cent, 

 of substances other than butter-fat and salt cannot be sold, 

 delivered, placed on sale, stored, or despatched for sale or for 

 delivery unless it be labelled or placed in a cover marked very 

 distinctly as ' Butter mixed with water.' " 



This provision has been found inadequate, and the law has, 

 in this respect, been recently amended by a decree which received 

 the Royal sanction on the 18th September, 1904. The new regu- 

 lation provides that butter containing more than 18 per cent, of 

 substances other than butter-fat and salt may not be sold, 

 delivered, exposed for sale, kept or conveyed for sale or delivery, 

 unless it is enclosed, for the wholesale trade, in wooden recep- 

 tacles hermetically closed ; and, for the retail trade, in paper or 

 cardboard packages tied in two directions with twine sealed 



* Minutes of Evidence to the, Fin xl Refort of the Butter Regulations Committee 

 {Cci. 1750) Appendix xxxv. (II.) /. 645. 



