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clamp and pole were then covered with about 3 or 4 

 inches of straw. The whole clamp, ridge included, was then 

 covered with soil and beaten smooth. The pole was then 

 withdrawn, so that an air-space was left along the whole 

 length of the ridge. Later on the open ends of this air- 

 shaft, or ventilator, may be closed in such a way as to 

 exclude frost. 



Milk Churns as Measures. 



The Board of Agriculture consider it desirable to publish 

 the following correspondence between their Department and 

 the Central Association of Dairy Farmers with regard to 

 the stamping of railway milk churns for the purposes of 

 the Weights and Measures Acts : — 



I. 



From Honorary Secretary, Central Association of Dairy 

 Farmers, to Secretary, Board of Agriculture. 



Bank Passage, Stafford, 



April 7th, 1902. 



Dear Sir, 



I beg to enclose copy of a resolution passed by 

 this Association at a recent meeting, and to express the hope 

 that it ma) receive your favourable consideration. 



I am, etc., 



Edwin Smithells* 



Enclosure. 



Resolution passed at the annual meeting held at Birming- 

 ham on March 6th, 1 902 : — 



" That, in view of the occasional prosecution of a farmer 

 for using a railway milk churn which is not officially stamped 

 and which is not correctly gauged, the Association is of 

 opinion that railway milk churns should be exempt from the 

 regulations imposed by the Weights and Measures Act. 

 This Association is convinced that, subject as these churns 

 are to the exceedingly rough usage by the railway com- 

 panies, it is impossible for them to remain accurate measures. 



