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the Local Authority find lhat margarine containing more than 1 6 per cent, of water is 

 being sold in their district it is desirable, whether they take proceedings or not, that 

 they should, if possible, ascertain where the retailer procured the margarine and inform 

 the Board so that samples of margarine of the same brand may be taken either by the 

 Board's officers at the margarine factory or by the Custom Officers at the port of 

 landing. 



The Act also regulates the trade in mixtures of butter with milk or cream (see 

 especially section I, sub-sections (i) (b) and (2), section 4 (2), and section 9. It is 

 important that your Local Authority should take such steps as are practicable to 

 ensure that all premises where such mixtures are made or dealt with wholesale shall be 

 registered as the premises of a manufacturer or wholesale dealer as the case may be. 

 If there is any reason to suspect that any unregistered premises are being used for the 

 manufacture of such mixtures the Local Authority should report the circumstances to 

 the Board. 



The Board will communicate to you from time to time any name and description- 

 approved by them for use in connection with any such mixture. 



Under section 4 (2) it will be illegal after the Act comes into operation for any 

 person to manufacture, sell, _expose, or offer for sale or have in his possession for the 

 purpose of sale any mixture of butter with milk or cream containing more than 24 per 

 cent, of water. If a sample of such a mixture taken in your district is found to contain 

 more than 24 per cent, of water the Board would be obliged if, in addition to taking 

 any proceedings they may think desirable against the retailer of the article, your Local 

 Authority would cause the circumstances to be reported to the Board so that further 

 samples may be taken by the Board's officers at the factory where the at tide was 

 produced. 



Your attention is drawn to the new definition of " margarine" in section 13 which 

 covers any article of food, whether mixed with butter or not, which resembles butter 

 and is not a mixture produced by mixing or blending butter with milk or cream other 

 than condensed milk or cream. 



Copies of the new Act are now obtainable, either directly or through any Book- 

 seller, from Wyman & Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, London, E.C. 



I shall be glad to forward to you additional copies of this circular on application. 



I am, &c, 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



With the object of testing the system of dry-mash feeding, 

 an experiment was carried out by University College, Reading, 

 on the College Poultry Farm, Theale, 

 Cost of Feeding during 1907. What is known as hopper 

 Chickens. feeding is being largely adopted in 

 America, where it is claimed that it is 

 superior to all other systems. The food consists of dry meals, 

 which are kept always before the birds, so that they can eat 

 whenever they desire to do so. 



Location. — In this experiment twenty-five White Wyandotte 

 chickens were taken from the brooders on 7th May, when they 

 were exactly four weeks old. Up to that time they had been 

 fed on a dry food mixture, consisting of various seeds and 



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