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Rules for Co-operative Milk Depots, [june, 



fifteen samples of feeding stuffs were analysed. In four 

 samples of bean meal, prussic acid was found to be present, 

 but in three of these cases it was not possible to obtain a 

 sample of the beans from which the meal was made ; in the 

 fourth the sample of beans was a mixed sample, composed 

 partly of Burma beans which contained 0*029 per cent, of 

 prussic acid. 



The recent article in this Journal (January, 1910, p. 810) 

 on the Organisation of the Milk Supply, dealt with the 

 co-operative sale of milk, and several 

 Rules for Co-operative instances were quoted where the prin- 

 ^"^k g^ppjy of ^ ^ e ciple had been successfully adopted. 

 Sanitary Milk. Several of these instances were in 

 Scotland, where, as mentioned above, 

 under the guidance of the Scottish Agricultural Organisation 

 Society, the formation of milk depots for the collection and 

 treatment of milk from the surrounding districts has been 

 successfully adopted. 



For the purpose of guiding the committees and managers 

 of dairy associations of this type, the Scottish Agricultural 

 Organisation Society have drawn up very carefully considered 

 rules, and the Board think it may be useful to reproduce them 

 in this Journal for the information and assistance of agricul- 

 turists generally, as they indicate the lines which, broadly 

 speaking, should be adopted in forming societies of this type. 



The Rules for the guidance of Committees are supple- 

 mented by Rules for the members themselves, that is for 

 the farmers who supply the milk to the depots. These will 

 be found of general interest, as they give directions intended 

 to secure the production of clean and sanitary milk, and may 

 well be followed by milk producers generally. 



Rules and Regulations for the guidance of Committees and 

 Managers of Dairy Associations affiliated to the Scottish 

 Agricultural Organisation Society. 



Membership of a Co-operative Dairy Association implies the taking 

 out of at least one jQi share in the Soicety, payable on such calls as the 

 committee may direct. 



Interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum will be paid out of the 

 net profits on the paid-up capital. Any balance of net profit accruing 



