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Only a small proportion of the churns in use are stamped 

 with the stamp of verification ; most authorities recognise 

 the unreasonableness of enforcing the Act in regard to them, 

 but until some alteration is made in the law farmers will 

 always be liable to vexatious prosecutions under the Act. 



" This Association, therefore, requests that the Board of 

 Agriculture will give the matter its most careful considera- 

 tion, with a view to place the farmers in a more satisfactory 

 position with regard to it, while in no way prejudicially 

 affecting the interests of the general public." 



II. 



From Secretary, Board of Agriculture, to Hon. Secretary, 

 Central Association of Dairy Farmers. 



May 2nd, 1902. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Board of Agriculture to advert 

 to your letter of the 7th ult., and to say that they have had 

 under their consideration the resolution passed by your 

 Association on March 6th. The Board concur in the view of 

 your Association as to the unsuitability of milk churns as 

 measures, but they desire me to point out that in cases where 

 churns are so used the provisions of the Weights and 

 Measures Acts must obviously apply. 



The difficulty referred to in the resolution might, however, 

 be met by invoicing milk conveyed in railway churns by 

 " measured weight," and deducting the tare for the churn; 

 and I am to inquire whether your Association could not take 

 some steps to bring the advantages of this system to the 

 notice of the milk trade generally. 



I am, etc., 



T. H. Elliott. 



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The Board of Agriculture think it desirable to give 

 publicity to the following correspondence which has taken 

 place between them and the Lincolnshire Chamber of 



