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with wax or lead. The nature and exact proportion of the 

 substances other than butter-fat and salt must be indicated in 

 heavy but distinct type, printed directly on the wrapper in the 

 form of an oblong " notice " which must appear on two opposite 

 faces of all the wrappers, i.e., not on the exterior one only. 

 The "notice," which must be in French on one face and in 

 Flemish on the other, is as follows: " BUTTER MIXED WITH 

 WATER. Notice. — This butter contains . . . per cent, of 

 water (casein, lactose). Pure butter does not contain more than 

 18 per cent." Every "notice" must be strictly in accordance, 

 as regards its wording and shape, with a model label which is 

 printed in the body of the regulation. The label is very 

 nearly 3 in. in width and a little more than iiin. in height. 

 The type used in the model " notice " shows the minimum size 

 which may be used, and for the wholesale trade the size of the 

 type and of the label must be trebled. The " notice " must 

 be isolated from any other lettering, and it must be completely 

 visible on two faces of the package. It is forbidden to insert 

 on the wrapper any information other than an indication of the 

 business of the producer or seller ; and the above-mentioned 

 " notices," or analogous ones, must not be inserted on wrappers 

 containing pure butter. 



In connection with the article which appeared in the 

 October number of this Journal, it has been pointed out 

 that no statement was given of the cost 



Experiments Q f t ^ e f ooc j consumed, or of the initial cost 

 in Fattening 1 - , 



Turkeys. °* tne Dir ^s. Mr. de Courcy has there- 

 fore furnished the following supplementary 



information : — 



The turkeys were raised on a farm together with other poultry 

 and stock of various kinds, and no exact account was kept of 

 the cost of raising them from the shell up to the time when they 

 were put into the fattening pens. From experiments made in 

 previous years, it may be estimated that the cost of raising 

 turkeys from the middle of April or the beginning of May 

 to the end of the third week in November would be 6s. a head 



