Lister-Gerber Milk Test, 



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A study of the distribution of the co-operative societies 

 shows that they thrive best in districts where small holdings are 

 predominant. For small farmers and peasants with independent 

 holdings they seem to be of great value, as they free them from 

 the hands of middlemen and from the influence of usury. 



[Foreign Office Report, Miscellaneous Series, No. 594.] 



The Board of Agriculture have made arrangements with the 

 Committee of the National Physical Laboratory for the exami- 

 nation of the Lister-Gerber milk testing 



Verification of apparatus ; and the Committee of the 

 Lister-Gerber 



Milk Testing" Laboratory are now prepared to receive, 

 Apparatus. for the purpose of verification, the pipettes, 

 measuring glasses, and test bottles used in 

 the Lister-Gerber and other similar methods of testing milk. 

 Standards of accuracy have been laid down, and all instruments 

 which pass the test will be marked with the Laboratory monogram. 

 The fees which will be charged are as follows : — Test bottles, 

 or pipettes with one mark, 6d. ; measuring glasses with one 

 mark, 9d. ; graduated pipettes tested at five points, is. 6d. ; 

 and measuring glasses tested at five points, is. oxl. Half these 

 fees are charged in the case of instruments failing to reach the 

 required standard. Copies of the regulations for the examina- 

 tion of such testing apparatus can be obtained upon application 

 to the Director, National Physical Laboratory, Bushy House, 



Teddington. 



Inquiries are frequently made as to the possibility of culti- 

 vating the ginseng plant (Aralia qui nque folia) in England, and 

 it is accordingly thought desirable to state 



Cultivation of tnat a n attempts made with it at the Royal 

 'LJlnsen2 , . 



Gardens, Kew, have so far met with failure. 

 There is, no doubt, a good market at present for the dried root ; 

 but ginseng plants are most exacting in their requirements, and 

 it is evidently a very intractable plant, quite unsuited to ordinary 

 agricultural or horticultural methods. 



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