Field and Farm asks its readers if it ever occurred to them that milking a cow without first wetting her teats will cause her milk to leak from the teaty.
Some lots of butter were shipped from Australia to London, and reached their destination when the butter was two months old. It was found to be in good condition, and brought a fine price. Those who shipped it from Australia claim that it was prepared by mixing with it come "preservative" along with the salt, and this was what kept it in prim© condition. What is this preserva tive, and is it any sort of poison, either quick or slow? If butter is kept suffi ciently cold it will remain in good con dition an indefinite time.
Dairy and farm butter should be sold directly to consumers to be profitable.
There are a few tolerably sure signs of a poor butter maker. He never is Been at dairy conventions or butter schools, and he never takes a paper. He makes greasy butter in summer and "woozy"- butter in winter. And you wouldbe apt even to catch, him smoking close-to the milk and butter;

Printed and published I>y Thomas Pilling for the Proprietors, Pilling Beob.. at their Kesris, tered Printing Office, Eoss Place, Lawrence-, Wednesday, September 4, 1885. Jjawreace - 1

Mr J. W. Kelly is attacking tha continu ance of the retaining fee of £100 to Dr Lemon as Consulting Electrician, in addition to his pension " of £500 to £550 a year." The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Secretary of War, has explained that the Government have accepted the main principles of War Office reform proposed by the Hartington Commission.
