Sept. 1896.] 



FOREIGN OFFICE REPORTS. 



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made from pure skimmed milk, and the third to contain not less 

 than 15 per cent, of pure butter fat. The sale of oleomargarine 

 is not prohibited, provided it be in a separate package distinctly 

 marked, so as to indicate clearly its real nature. 



A dairy commissioner has been appointed to devote his 

 entire time to the dairy interests of the State, especially to 

 the enforcement of the laws relating to the manufacture and 

 sale of dairy products. He is to make personal inspection of 

 any articles believed to be impure or adulterated, and to prose- 

 cute the manufacturers of such articles. He has authority to 

 call on the chemists of any State institution to furnish, without 

 compensation, analyses of such articles as he may submit to them 

 for analysis, as well as to enter any creameries, manufactories, 

 or shops and to seize any articles which he may have reason to 

 suspect of being adulterated. The prosecuting attorneys of the 

 different counties are also required to render him any legal 

 assistance he may require in carrying out his duties. 



The State Agricultural College and Experiment Station, at 

 Pullman, in Eastern Washington, is doing its share in addition 

 to its other work, in encouraging the farmers to take a special 

 interest in dairying, and with that object in view a model dairy 

 school was to be opened early in 1896, where a course of lectures, 

 as well as practical instruction, extending over two months, was 

 to be given free of all charge to residents, both men and women, 

 in the State in all phases of milk- testing, butter-making, cheese- 

 making, and in the management of cows and of the machinery of 

 the dairy, including both the theoretical and practical sides of 

 the business. The institution is fully equipped for this purpose, 

 having the most improved modern machinery and appliances, as, 

 w^ell as a fine herd of selected dairy cattle. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 1734. Price 3d.] 



Export of American Produce by the Gulf of Mexico, 



The report for the year 1895 on the trade of the Consular 

 District of Chicago contains some information relating to the 

 increasing export trade from ports on the Gulf of Mexico, which 

 are of importance to persons interested in the export of 

 agricultural produce from the United States to this country. 



Mr. P. E. Burrough, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Kansas city, 

 points out that in addition to the shorter distance of the Gulf of 

 Mexico from the grain fields of the west, the ports are never 

 blocked by snow in winter, but vessels can always arrive and 

 depart ; while the eastern railroads are frequently snowbound, 

 and the lakes and eastern ports frozen up in winter, thus delay- 

 ing the exports. It is a down-hill grade from the Western 

 States to the Gulf of Mexico ports, so that very large trains 

 can be handled. The Kansas City, Pittsburg, and Gulf Eailway 



