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place except in those cases where a certain range of wages 

 is prevalent, and where the change took place either in 

 the maximum or minimum rate, and these were not treated 

 in a statistical form. 



In Scotland information was obtained from a number of 

 employers of agricultural labour in each county, and also 

 as to the rates of wages obtained at the principal hiring 

 markets. The farm servants are nearly all hired yearly or 

 half-yearly, and very few changes had taken place ; where 

 changes had been made they were not of sufficient impor- 

 tance to materially affect the wages of any particular class. 



In Ireland information was received from each county 

 with regard to wages of agricultural labourers, and no 

 material changes were reported to have taken place. 



Effects on Butter of Cotton-seed and Sesame-seed 



Oilcake. 



Experiments* on behalf of the Board of Agriculture have 

 been undertaken during the present year by the South- 

 Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, for the purpose of 

 determining whether, and to what extent, the substances 

 giving the analytical reactions for cottonseed and sesame oil 

 might be found in the butter made from the milk of cows fed 

 on cottonseed and sesame oilcakes. The following is a 

 summary of the report by Dr. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., the 

 principal chemist of the Government laboratories, on these 

 experiments : — 



Twelve Shorthorn cows were divided into three sets of 

 four. Commencing on the i6th of February, 1898, all the 

 cows were fed with the standard ration, consisting of 4 lbs. 

 dried grains, 2 lbs. bean meal, 25 lbs. hay and chopped 

 straw, and 40 lbs. of roots, together with 4 lbs. of linseed oil- 

 cake each per day. This feeding was continued till the 

 19th of March. Milk was taken at intervals of a day or two 

 from each cow, and made into butter under the supervision 



* A more detailed account of the experiments will be found in the ' ' Annual 

 Report on the Distribution of Grants for Agricultural Education and Research/' 

 1897-8, issued by the Board of Agriculture, [C. — 9061.] 



