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Notes on Agriculture Abroad. 



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enabling the farmer to send his cream to the centralised factories, where 

 it is made into butter. This mode of managing the dairy industry is 

 becoming more and more popular, as it is a great saving of labour, 

 and the farmer has the skim milk for his pigs. With the whole milk 

 dairies he has to cart the milk to the factory and recart the skim milk 

 back again if he wishes to use it, whereas under the new system one 

 farmer can take the cream of many of his neighbours to the railway 

 depot, while the rural mail carts will also carry it for a trifling 

 amount. The rapid growth in popularity of the separator is shown by 

 the fact that in the State of Omaha there were in 1897 only 550 

 separators in use, whereas in 1908 there were 35,000. 



Export of Butter from Finland. — The Report on the trade of the 

 Consular district of Helsingfors (F.O. Report, Annual Series, No. 

 4306) refers to the export of butter, most of which comes to Great 

 Britain, and states that the Finnish Government have erected a new 

 warehouse on the shipping quay at Hango for all butter intended for 

 export, and have supplied refrigerators for keeping the butter in perfect 

 condition whilst being sampled and weighed. These will be of great 

 benefit, especially during the summer months. The steamers are also 

 fitted with refrigerator rooms, and the butter will now, from the moment 

 it reaches any railway station in the Grand Duchy, be taken eare of in 

 the best possible manner. 



- It has also been decided to exhibit at the Grocers' Exhibitions in 

 Great Britain for the coming three years, in order to make known 

 and advertise the butter to the British public. The cost will be met by 

 the Finnish Government. 



Dairy Industry and Agriculture in Uruguay. — The report on the 

 trade of Uruguay in 1908 (F.O, Reports, Annual Series, No. 4320) 

 states that efforts are being made to encourage the dairy industry, which 

 should be one of the most important industries in a pastoral country. 

 A project has been laid before the legislature for granting exemption 

 from the import duties on the boilers and motors for dairies and 

 creameries, the electric apparatus and machinery for lighting the same, 

 and for the manufacture of the sub-products of skimmed milk, the 

 machinery and utensils for butter factories and creameries, and the 

 parts for renewal of the same. It is also proposed to exempt the 

 factories and creameries from property and licence taxes for a period 

 of ten years. The Executive is authorised to organise for the winter 

 of 19 10 a National Exhibition of milk products, expending 20,000 dols. 

 in prizes and other expenses. 



The report of the Official Committee in charge of this project 

 mentions that there are in the country between 2,000,000 and 3,006,000 

 head of cows, and if the milk of one-tenth part of these were properly 

 used, it would permit of an exportation exceeding that of the 

 agricultural products. To attain this, however, it would first be neces- 

 sary to improve the strain of the cows themselves, and the conditions 

 under which they are tended. If this project becomes law it may 

 provide an opening for the export of British machinery and live stock. 



The Report also gives information as to the state of agriculture and 

 the exports of cereals and wool. 



Agriculture and Horticulture in Oregon and Adjoining States. — Mr. 



