122  Contemporary  Agricultural  Law. 
same  remark  applies  to  a wide  tube  constricted  at  the  lower 
end.  The  apparatus  recommended  is  seen  in  Fig.  4.  A disc  of 
metal  covered  with  rubber  (see  p.  119),  is  lowered  by  means  of 
a narrow  rod,  attached  to  the  disc,  into  the  milk  which  has  to 
be  sampled.  Over  this  narrow  rod  a glass  tube  having  a 
diameter  of  1 in.  is  slipped.  A tube  of  this  size  may  be  lowered 
into  the  milk  quite  quickly.  The  glass  tube  is  then  pressed 
against  the  rubber  lining  of  the  disc,  which  prevents  the  milk 
escaping,  and  the  whole  apparatus  is  withdrawn.  Such  a tube 
immersed  in  milk  to  a depth  of  2 ft.  6 in.  will  withdraw  a 12  oz. 
sample.  A rubber  cone  in  place  of  the  disc  is  found  to  be  an 
improvement.  If  the  end  of  the  tube  is  slightly  expanded, 
there  is  no  difficulty  in  preventing  the  milk  from  running  out. 
W.  F.  Cooper. 
Cooper  Research  Laboratory, 
Watford. 
CONTEMPORARY  AGRICULTURAL  LAW. 
I. — Legislation. 
AGRICULTURAL  interests  are  only  affected  directly  by  the 
legislation  of  1910  to  a very  small  extent.  The  Development 
and  Road  Improvement  Funds  Act,  1910  (10  Ed.  7 c.  7),  amends 
the  Development  and  Road  Improvement  Funds  Act,  1909,  by 
increasing  the  number  of  Development  Commissioners  who 
may  be  appointed  from  five  to  eight.  It  also  deals  with  the 
pensions  of  Commissioners  and  members  of  the  Road  Board, 
and  corrects  a clerical  error  in  Section  11,  Sub-section  5,  of  the 
Act  of  1909. 
The  Diseases  of  Animals  Act,  1910  (10  Ed.  7 and  1 Geo.  5 c. 
20),  deals  with  the  exportation  of  unfit  and  diseased  horses, 
and  by  Section  1 prohibits,  except  in  such  cases  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  order  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture  and  Fisheries, 
the  shipping  of  any  horse  from  any  port  in  Great  Britain  to 
any  port  outside  the  British  Islands,  unless  immediately  before 
shipment  the  horse  has  been  examined  by  a veterinary 
inspector  appointed  by  the  Board,  and  has  been  certified  by 
him  to  be  capable  of  being  conveyed  to  the  port  and  disem- 
barked without  cruelty.  The  fee  for  examination  is  payable 
by  the  owner  of  the  horse  before  it  takes  place.  Power  is 
given  to  the  veterinary  inspector  to  slaughter,  without  the 
consent  of  the  owner,  any  horse  examined  and  found  by  him 
to  be  in  such  a physical  condition  that  it  is  cruel  to  keep  it 
alive.  Section  3 provides  that,  if  any  horse  shipped  from  any 
port  in  Great  Britain  to  any  port  outside  the  British  Islands  has 
a limb  broken,  or  is  otherwise  seriously  injured  while  on  board, 
so  as  to  be  incapable  of  being  disembarked  without  cruelty, 
