ENGLISH FARMING NOTES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 72, 29 March 1892, Page 4

ENGLISH FARMING NOTES.

i (Agricultural correspondent of the : Now Zealand Herald.) ' THE MAROAIUNE NUISANCE, Our Margarine Act is a failure, as I tho first attempt to suppress fraudulent sale of " bull bultor" for tho genuine article has proved in every country "where legislation has boon attomptod A short timo back tho Danes had to pass a new measure of vory stringent character, au ifc has found that a milder law was not effectual ; aud in Franco another strict law is under consideration. Tho j profit of selling margarine as butter is so groat, and tho risk of detection ! so small, that dealers in this country | go on iv much tho samo way as was tho case before our Margarine Act I was passed. Even if a dealer bo prosecuted now and then, ho gels off with a fine so small that a week's profit upon his dishonest trade will cover it — or a day's profit if ho is a large wholesale dealer. There aro two oxcellont provisions in tho now Danish and the proposed French law. One prohibits the colouring of margarine in imitation of butter, and tho other prohibits any maker of ono of these commodities to make or keep the other. New Zealand shippers of honest butter arc greatly concerned in the fraudulent trading in tho bogus article. It is hard euough to compete with all the world in the production of j genuine butter, without being handicapped by a swindling trade. There l is no doubt that a great deal of the , Ko-oalled Normandy butter is adulterated with oleo-margarino, and is therefore, in reality, margarine The British Dairy Farmers' Association will shortly obtain evidence of the failure of the Margarine Act to lay bofore Parliament, with tho object of obtaining more stringent legislation. THE SIIITIIFIELD BIIOW BLOCK TEST. The "block test" of somo of the cattle oxhibitcd at tho recent Smithfield Show has beeu carried out as usual by a representative of the Live Stock Journal, who has followed the animals to the butchers' shops, and ascertained details as to their carcase weight, quality of meat, etc. Ho has now given a table of sixty-nine of tho beasts, showing age, live weight, averago daily gain sinco birth in live weight, carcase weight, percentage of carcase to live weight, weight of loose fat, and weight of hido in each caso. The greatest percentage of carcase to 1 live weight was 72-10, given by a Shorthorn steer 1000 days old, 18481 b , in livo weight, aud showing a gain per day of l'Bslb, a dead weight of carcase 13841 b, lfiOlb of loose fat, and 991 bof hide. This a good record, but the meat was too fat, though of fine quality. More interesting is the weight of seventeen steers under two years of age. The averago percentage of carcase was 04-80, the highest being 08-51, given by a Hereford steer 085 days old, 14191 bin live weight, and showing a daily gain of 2*oolb. Thia animal gained only a cotnmondation at tho show. Perhaps a still hotter record ia that of Sir John Swinburne's Shorthorn steer which gained tho third prize iv his class. Tho ago oi thin animal was 701 days, livo weight 14371 b,. daily gain 2*12, carcaeo weight 10001 b, carcase por eemtago G7 25, aud iooso fat 801 b. I (1 or a beast cf tho 'ago named this record is not easy to boat, though it has been beaten on previous occasions. Tho past season was not a good ono for fattening, cattlo. Tho averago per ccntago of oarcaso.of twentyfivo Bteers over two nnd not over threo years of ago corncs out afc GG'52. Among tho shooj), tho averago percontago of carcase was GO for sixteen pens of lambs, and GG7B for twonty-ouo pons ot wothora abovo ono year and under two years. All tho averago percentages show what can b& dono with fat cattlo nnd sheep. A. WRINKLE IN DuTTERMAKINCi. Tho_ proper tomporaturo of cream for churning ia often given, .for winter and for Bununor, though diflbront authorities givo different tomperaturos, But Miss Maidmout, a well-known demonstrator and lecturer, has just given ausoful littlo tabic nhowing tlto best tomporaturo of cream according to that of tho surround, iug air, as follows :— - Temperature of air. Temperature oi cream. 00 dcg. Fah. 55 deg. Pah. 64 .. » D 6 „ „ f' 2 '» •■> 67 „. „ M .• .» 53 „ „ 5S n n 59 „ „ 65 n ii GO ii ,i This tabic, Aliss Maidmcnt says, may bo safely followed. In boating croara she placos tho vessel containing it in hot wator, stirring the cream continuously, so as to warm it equally. It is necessary to bo vory careful not to boat tho cream too much, or tho butter will bo spoiled. Tho wator should not bo moro than 100 dog. Fah. SWINE yEVEH. On February 2 a joint deputation of tho Chambers of Agriculture aud tho London^ Farmors' Club will wait upon tho Minister of Agriculture to urgo upon him the desirability ol obtaining from Parliament tho Jpoworß necessary to enable him to doal with swino fovor at) ho has beeu dealing with plouro-pneumonia, by establishing a bystem of uniform restrictions throughout Great Britain, with compulsory slaughter and payment of compensation out of tho national exchequer. Thu great moasuro of success which has attended tho attempts to Bup. prosß plouro-pneumonia by tho action of tho central authority has produced a otroug doßiro to luwo swino fovor brought under similar regulations. It is certain that wo shall novor got rid of tho lattor troublesome disease so long as it is loft to tho vagaries of the local authorities, for if one county gots rid of it, tho dia. oaeo iB certain to bo reintroduced with pige from another county whoro tho (authority is loss Bonaiblo. During tho past year tho discaso lias increased in prevalence, 51815 fresh outbreaks, attacking 29,950 pigs, having taken place uptu the 9th of November, against 5070' outbreaks, attacking 29,092 |i.;s, during tho whole of 1890, while the «tho inorouso binco 1889 ia much greater. Thus, tho rate-payers go on, your after your, paying largo minis of money for* restrictions which prove futile. If wo can once stamp tho disease- out — as wo can if wo try in tho only sensible way-— thoro is no other reason why wo should not keep it out of fcho country, as our imports of livo pigs (only 542 last year) are not worth a moment's _ consideration, and could bo stopped without hardship to auyouo, or admitted only with a Buftioiont period of quarantine, bo as to allow of tho importation of valuablo breeding pige. The utilisation of the i-owi r produced by tho ebb and flow of the tides bus heeu made in Havre to work turbine wheels, whioh geuerats the power uo.Cßsary to run tho dynamos which furnish Paris with tho electric light, IF YOU WOULD LIVE LONG and pio&per drink fjood Coffee, 'It maketh the liearfcglad, kecpeth the brain clear, cndhelpeth iigestion, 130 sure nnd ask ior Urease's Al Uoft'ee. Hold only iv 1 and 2 lb. tins, THERE IS ONE THING every housewife should know, and that is— Hkbculkb Hakino L'owueb is the best. Why ? It is the cheap' 33t heoauEo it is tho boat for making bread, pastry, cakes, puddings, soonea, &o. In Gd and ltt tins. ir.nviou to Motheuh —a to v brokeu in jtci i. ut, by !, Eickj^ chili, guttering with tho inu el cutting teeth? Uo at onco to ft «• i < .wiafc, aud got c, bottlo of Mrs Wiunlow's v; hog hyrut it will relioro tho poor ■ Ina nn edlut ? ly ' n v P««ootly harm- . U'lat qulot sleep, by rolic-yln? the child . cti- 8 pain, and ho little cherub awakes "as ut gilt as a button, it Boo thoß the child it .rind, regulates the bo|el B Ld fe *hiT? Micwn remedy for dySntewmd mLl^ .hethor Mlilug from ffiinf £^& cauBCB. Mrs Window's B^tbiL L , pSS ed,ciDo Dcaler ' •^^tf!