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attended to his herd. Tor a butter factory to pay it would have to turn out at 
least half-a-ton of butter per day. About 1d. to 12d. per 1b. would cover the 
cost of the manufacture of the butter, not including the cost of separating. 
Mr. W. A. A. Bares (Boompa) replied to the remarks that had been made 
about his paper, and in doing so disagreed with Mr. Bromiley in his statement 
that cancer appeared chiefly in the soft parts of an animal. He held it came 
out most frequently on the brand or in the eye. As for what Mr. Mellor had 
said, he was not aware as to the relative amount of cancer in Queensland and 
the Southern colonies, but he could assure Mr. Mellor there was quite enough 
in Queensland. Mr. Walker had asked how cancer could be distinguished, 
but he (Mr. Bates) did not think there were many in the room who could teach 
Mr. Walker much about the matter. 
__ Mr, Cuaraway, in closing the discussion, said that he was especially glad 
to find that on nearly all hands farmers approved of a proper supervision of 
dairies, and when the measure to enable this to be carried out was again 
brought before the House, as it was brought before the Council last year, he 
trusted that it would receive their support. It had been found useless to leave 
the inspection of such places to boards or councils. Dairymen had votes, and 
the aldermen knew it; dairymen had friends, and again tne aldermen were 
acquainted with the fact. he lives and health of the people, however, should 
count for something, and he thought it was the duty of the Central Govern- 
ment to take the power out of the hands of those who refused or were afraid 
to use it. Cognate with the inspection of dairies was the subject of the brand- 
ing of butter for export. The Agricultural Department was anxious to obtain 
power to grade and brand butter, in order that an article which was distinetly 
inferior might not be exported branded as ‘‘ Best Queensland factory butter.” 
They had no desire to prohibit its export, but desired to have it sold on its merits. 
It had been suggested that the Department provide for farmers stud bulls, horses, 
and boars, which were to be self-supporting through the small fee which was 
to be charged for their services. He noticed that the gentlemen who had 
advocated the system emphasised the word ‘‘ small,” which made him wonder 
whether the fees would pay for the cost of standing the animals. However, if 
an association of dairymen, say, desired the use of « bull for a year or term, 
and guaranteed a reasonable rent for him, it was quite possible the Department 
would be willing to consider the offer, but the proposal that the Department 
should place a number of valuable stud animals about the country on the 
chance of farmers sending females to them for a small fee, did not seem to him 
to have many recommendations, except perhaps to those who received the use 
of the animals at the small fee. There was another matter which apparently 
exercised the minds of milk suppliers, and that was the matter of the testing 
of cream. Mr. Mahon had suggested one way out of the trouble, but he 
thought there should be no difficulty provided the suppliers associated. In the 
district represented at the Conference by Messrs. Swayne and Denman there 
were something like 200,000 tons of cane sold annually over the weighbridges 
to the various mills. There was a strong association of growers, and at each 
weighbridge there was a check weighman. He was paid by the associated farmers 
from a levy of from $d. to 4d. per ton on all cane supplied, and he acted as a 
check against the weighbridge clerk belonging to the mill, the system giving 
satisfaction to all concerned. Again, in California about 80,000 tons of beet 
are sold every year to the Chino sugar factory by the growers, who have an 
intricate check system. The beet is sold by analysis and not by weight, so that 
they could understand a sale entailed just as much work as the use of a 
Babcock tester. The farmers, however, had a chemist of their own in the 
factory laboratory, who checked the work of the chemist employed by the 
factory and saw that the growers were properly dealt with. If it was possible 
for beet suppliers to keep a check on such a delieate work as analysis, surely it 
ought to be possible for small creameries to associate together and get a check 
tester among themselves. In any event, it was done in other parts of the world. 
hin (To be continued.) 
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