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passing qualities." It will produce butter in less 
than five minutes, and it will do so whether 
the temperature is 32° or 81', whether the atmo- 
sphere is clear or muggy. It removes the butter- 
milk automatically, and the butter can be 
washed for a week witliout injuring the grain. 
The butter can never be overworked. It will 
be admitted that if all these claims can be 
justified, the Eveudeu butter worker is bound to 
supersede every other churn, at any rate in the 
tropica. 
The Scottish Farmer refers to a glowing 
account, in Le Petit Journal, of the new forage 
plant, Polygonum Sachalinense, which comes from 
a Russian Island between Siberia and Japan. 
" The planting," we are told, " is, so to speak, for 
perpetuity. All that remains to be done is to 
restrain its encroachments." 
Among exotic fruits recently introduced into 
India, one of the most promising seems to be 
the American dewberry, which is tjearing profusely 
in the Shaharanpur Botanic Gardens. 
The Japanese finger orange tree produces fruits 
made up of a number of long segments joined 
together at the lower end, but separating towards 
the apex into a number of finger-like bodies. 
The fruit taken on the whole is said to be so 
unlike an ordinary orange, that it can -scarcely 
he recognised as the fruit of a member of that 
family. 
Professor Wally, in a paper read before the 
British Institute of Public Health, advocated 
radical forms in the method of inspecting dead 
meat. In regard to the first source of supply — 
that of meat specially fed for the butcher and 
finding its way to the consumer through the 
ordinary recog-nised channels — there was not 
much to be said, but the case was different with 
meat that had not been specially prepared — meat 
thrown on the market suddenly from a variety ot 
causes, and reaching the consumer in unrecog- 
j nised and sometimes illegitimate ways. It ie not 
J difficult to follow the former, but with the latter 
! it is otherwise. His point wa> liiat all animals 
' should be inspected before si lughter, but in 
I order to do this there must be, ii* in Berlin, one 
receiving house for all cattle to be slaughtered — 
one common slaughter-house — .lud an effective 
system of both live and dead meat examination 
by qualified professional men liaving some 
trained acquaintance witli diagnosis of disease. 
The head and the chief internal organs— the 
j heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver — sliould be hung 
up bebide each carcase until the dead meat 
' inspection was completed, and provided tlie 
animals slaughtered could be marked when 
examined alive, impoitant statistics would tlius 
j be collected regarding diseases in cattle and 
means provided for comparing the results of live 
and dead meat inspection. Should such reforms 
be carried out, it is obvious that there would be 
a great accession to departments of life open to 
veterinarj- surgeons, and it is w«ll, in view of 
the probablity of an extension of their functions 
j and responsibilities, that veterinary students 
i henceforth require to be as well equipped before 
j entering on their studies as members of the 
I medical profession. 
I Professor Sachs, of Wur/burg, asserted, and 
j the Royal Institute for fruit and vine culture at 
I Giesedheim has tried experiments and is ap- 
parently satisfied, that sulphate of iron is a 
! valuable stimulant to plants that are suffering 
from chlorosis, or absence of the proper green 
I colour. They gave small trees 2 l-v)th lb. of 
I copperas, and large trees 4 and 2-5th lb. The 
results, it is said, were most gratifying. Strange 
I to say in some cases wherp the trees were 
I suffering from the attack of aphides as well as 
\ deficiency of colour in the leaves, the aphides 
I disappeared, and frequently the leaves became 
1 healthy within a few days after the treatment. 
The sulphate of iron was dissolved in water, 
and applied near the roots- Early spring is the 
best time to try the experiment. Some soils do 
not lequire the addition of sulphate of iron. 
