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for consumption. Formerly it was his practice to have the milk 
placed in the milk-kits just as it came from the cows, at a temperatm-e 
of about 90°, and he had frequent complaints that the milk would not 
keep. He then made several experiments with a view to improvement. 
Eventually he tried the plan of putting milk in refrigerators, and 
bringing down the temperature to that of water. That plan entirely 
succeeded ; and since its adoption he had not had a single complaint. 
It was exceedingly important that milk should be as little agitated as 
possible, and should not be placed in vessels for transmission before 
it was quite cool. 
Professor Voelcker said, The tube-lactometer, if applied to test 
milk that had travelled a considerable distance, would not afford a 
correct indication of its value or quality, taking the percentage o£ 
cream as an index. He had tested milk after a railway joui-ney of 
forty miles, and found that it produced only one-third of the cream 
which the same milk had thrown uj) when taken direct from the 
cows ; this description of lactometer was therefore practically use- 
less when applied to the' great bulk of the milk sold in large towns, 
from the fact of the cream-globules being diffused through the milk, 
and the low temperatm-e of such milk would also prevent their rising 
to the surface. 
Meeting of IVeeJdi/ Council, March 19th. Colonel Challoner, Vice- 
President, in the chair. 
Cattle Condiments. 
Mr, Beale Brown (Gloucester) said that his motive for bringing 
forward this subject was a desire to promote a friendly discussion 
upon matter fraiight with great interest to agriculturists generally. 
He had no connection with Mr, Thorley, and should not know him 
if he were in that room. Among the different kinds of condiments 
now advertised, that of Mr. Thorley held the most prominent place 
before the public ; and of that alone was he competent to sj^eak 
from experience ; at the same time he should be sorry to disjoarage 
other condiments which might be equally valuable. Scientific men 
had certainly rather cried them down. Now, with all his respect for 
science and its followers, he conceived that in this they were 
decidedly in error. He would presently refer to a little practical 
experience which he had had with respect to condiments ; and so 
far as that experience went, it showed unmistakably that thoy were 
in error on this subject. He was sorry that this should be tlia 
case, because he liked to see science and practice go hand in hand,, 
as had been the case to a considerable extent in agriculture. He had 
for some years used some of Mr. Thorley's ingredients, but thought 
it unfair to take to pieces a prescription obtained ai great pains and 
expense. What would become of the medital science in general, 
if such a course was adopted ? Dr. Dickson, the first man in the 
medical profession that set his face against bleeding, who also 
