An English cheese maker, whose storage room became badly infected with blue mould (Penic.ilium glaucuvi), adopted as a disinfectant dilute boracic acid, with which he washed the walls, woodwork, utensils, and all parts of the cheese rooms. As the fungus re appeared in the cheese he repeated the disinfection twice a week, until all signs of the parasite disappeared.
Some observations made by a dairy man have proved that cows fed partly upon cottonseed meal, or upon maize meal, or upon hay has the effect of hardening the butter. Cottonseed meal makes a remarkably hard butter, but gluten meal acts in the opposite direction. Silage makes a rich, soft, oily butter, with a high colour.
Malpractices in the milk trade of rather a serious character havG (says the Melbourne Weekly Times) come to light in connection with several of the butter factories of the north-eastern district. The suppliers of milk to some of the factories are using baking soda to keep the night's milk sweet —an ingredient which, ex perience, goes to show, leads to a deterioration of the butter exported to London. The artifice alluded to is being so largely carried on that the directors of one of the leading butter factories of this district have deter mined to institute most vigilant and rigorous measures in order to stamp it out.
