DECEIVING TO THE EYE

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5532, 27 September 1929, Page 4

DECEIVING TO THE EYE

For some years it has been a fairly general belief that a yellow and an oily skin, particularly in a Jersey cow, was an indication; of high but-ter-fat production ability. (Mr A. H. Humphrey, a herd-test-ing officer, has his 1 doubts on this poi'nit (says the "iLive Stock Bulletin"). • He says that, at the begin>ning of the season, he! endeavoured to pick out the 1 best and the worst producers in the different herds which he had to test. He had l'ittle success. One dairyman for whoir. he was testing showed a young Jersey cow with an exceptionally rich, yellow skin. Both he and the dairyman agreed, he says, that she should be a high-producing animal, but their judgment was shattered when the Babcock bottle proved her with

,a 3.4 test, and the following periods {with a .5 and a 3.6 test respectively, i The same dairyman pointed out to ; him. a large cow showing Friesian ! type strongly, anything but a prom- . ising tester. Both he and the dairy- ] man concluded that she was one of . the poorest testers of the herd, but ; she tested 4:1 per cent. After this, he said, he gave up trying to guess - the test of cows. He found that it was a fallacy to reiy on the judgment of the eye, and much better to rely on the Baibcock bottles and scales.

Scotland Yard's "Black Museum" is a sinister place. Here are preserved many things associated with great crimes and notorious criminals. Amongst them is a battered old briar pipe, once the property of Charles Peace, of infamous memory. He stroked this pipe the night before his execution. Mighty is the power of the weed! It can bring something of comfort and of solace to even the desperate criiminail during his last hours upon earth —or so they will tell you. Injurious? 'Not if the quality is right. The tobaccos manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., are the purest of all. Unlike other brands they contain hardly any nicotine, and are therefore quite harmless—a point of importance to constant smokers. They owe their comparative freedom from nicotine to the toasting of the lead:. This is an elaborate process, the sccret of the National Tobacco Co., (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand). Ask for Riverhead Gold (mild), Cavendish (medium), Navy Cut (medium), or Cut Plug No. 10 (full strenglth). 23