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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Departmental Committee on Butter Regulations. — Interim Report 

 [Cd. 944]. Price id. 



Information relating to the constitution and objects of this 

 Depaitmental Committee has already been given in this Journal 

 (page 216). The Committee recommend in this Interim Re- 

 port, which deals solely with the question of water in butter, 

 the adoption of a limit of 16 per cent, for the proportion of 

 water in butter, to be fixed by a Regulation under Section 4 

 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, and they make this 

 recommendation on the assumption that butter containing a 

 larger percentage of water than 16 per cent, will escape the 

 operation of this limit, provided that a sufficient disclosure is 

 made to the purchaser. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland. — Extent in Statute Acres and 

 Produce of the Crops for the year 1901 {Cd. 894]- 

 Price l\d. 



The conditions prevailing in Ireland last year were 

 exceptionally favourable to the growth of crops. The 

 average yields per acre of cereals, roots, potatoes and flax 

 not only showed increases as compared with 1900, but were 

 also in every case above the mean of the preceding ten 

 years, the hay crop only showing a decline. Owing, how- 

 ever, to the smaller areas under all the leading crops in 

 1-901, except mangolds and hay, the aggregate results of the 

 harvest are not altogether satisfactory. The total yields of 

 barle} r , potatoes, turnips, mangolds and flax are above the 

 normal, but the figures for wheat, oats, bere, rye and hay fall 



