i;8 



Number of Milk Tests made in [906. . [june, 



samples from one farmer in Hertfordshire, and a number of other 

 farmers also submitted samples fortnightly or weekly. This 

 regular testing is much to be encouraged. At some of the other 

 centres also the average number of samples received from each 

 person is sufficient to show that the advantage of systematic 

 sampling is more or less recognised. The Glasgow and West 

 of Scotland College received 187 samples from thiity-two persons 

 or an average of nearly six each, while the Reading College 

 received 201 samples from forty-four persons, and the Shepton 

 Mallet Grammar School in samples from twenty-four persons, 

 or between four and five samples each. 



The number of samples tested at the different institutions is 

 shown below : — 



Number of 



Persons 

 Sending in 

 Samples. 



Number of 

 Samples. 



University College of North Wales, Bangor 



12 



36 



University of Leeds ... 



19 



58 



Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne ... 



7 



10 



University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 



1 



1 



Cambridge University 



11 



21 



University College, Reading 



44 



201 



South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye ... 

 Midland Agricultural and Dairy College ... 

 Harper Adams Agricultural College 

 College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Holmes Chapel 

 Agricultural and Horticultural College, Uckfield... 

 Essex County Technical Laboratories 

 Lady Warwick's School, Bigods Hall, Essex 

 Eastern Counties Dairy Institute, Ipswich 

 Cumberland and Westmorland Farm School 

 County Council Dairy School, Gloucester ... 

 Shepton Mallet Grammar School ... 



Glasgow and West of Scotland College 



Mareschal College, Aberdeen 



Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture 



44 

 43 



75 

 13 

 5i 



125 

 116 

 121 

 117 



48 

 388 



13 



92 

 16 



50 

 1 1 1 

 187 



15 



70 



Reference was made in the last number of this Journal (May, 

 1907, p. 89) to the importance of testing at certain specified 

 intervals or at certain points in the lactation period for the 

 purpose of ascertaining the average percentage of fat contained 

 in the milk of individual cows, while for the purpose of checking 

 the proportion of butter-fat in the mixed milk of a herd, it is 

 obvious that testing at frequent intervals must be necessary. 

 It is hoped that as the value of the system becomes more 

 recognised, regular and systematic testing will be more 



