EXPORTS OF PRODUCE.

New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 27

EXPORTS OF PRODUCE.

ment e of l^cuhrfr isS x ed by the Depart-tdy-and vXe ofcf 0 ! 1 , 11 ® the <Wainpdfrozen meat Gutter, cheese ln g January. TRI 0 ? 1 A e w Zealand durthe figures' for the colony, ®°nthof 1899 1 p h f, corr espondmg agJnst b 3682' 2^’ 474C i Wt ’ va,ue ’ value £3599 - *"7,343, and 8555^1, car cases, value Va jne £8895 ooßewt legs and pieces value £73,158 rfhl" - 135 ’ 865 ca?case s ; Ifgsand pieceT for r lght and value of stated). S e o la Ja ? ua i?> !899, are not a J Ue £58,209 car cases, 3lst he st*?==eSfe,-s : S77tZl’ v alue £4OO ne n -nutter—ll4,18& Valu e £295 879 S’ agamst 68,tuq >’sß, against 17 K , 7Q’*°° cw t, value 85 £7 ?r 356 ' Frozen value £78,mut ton 1,863,912 car-

cases, value £988,805, against 1365 - 265 carcases, value £705,762. Legs and A 62B ? wt ’ valae £ ,f>675 (figures toi 1898-9 J not given). Frozen iamb 933,024 carcases, value £444,519,' against. 783,015 carcases, value £352,285. The contributions from the principal ports for January, 1900, were :—Auckland—Butter, 3926 cwt, value £14,431; cheese 67cwt, value £130; frozen beef, 2376cwt’ value £2783; frozen mutton, 780 carcases, value £504; frozen lamb, 4u7 carcosos, value £219. Napier—Frozen beet, 4974 carcases, value £O3S3; frozen mutton, 7374 carcases, value £1216 • legs and pieces, 2477 cwt, value £2601: frozen lamb, 9383 carcases, value £3738. New Plymouth—Butter, 10,373 cwt, value £44,530; cheese, 2292c\vt, value £4,805. Wanganui—Butter, 635 cwt, value £2389; frozen beef, 4882 cwt, value £4556; frozen mutton, i 1,420 carcases, value £5612; legs and pieces, 1519 cwt,: value £1416; frozen .lamb, .2811 carcases value £984. , ..Wellington—Butter, 10,9olcwt, value £49,035 ;■ cheese, 4097 cwt, .value £10,052; frozen beef, 13,689c\vt, value £15,108; frozen mutton, .71,856 carcases, value £38,248 ; legs and 'pieces, 2637 cwt, value £3081; frozen lamb, 11,059 carcases, value £4690. Christchurch—Butter, 2i96cwt, value £9473; cheese, 967 cwt, value £loo< ; frozen mutton, 14,089 carcases; value £8470; frozen lamb, 76,237 carcases, value £36,981. Dunedin—Butter, 45430 wt, value £20,456; cheese 6478 cwt, value £14,173.

“ MADE IN GERMANY.” Mr B. Aston, Analytical Chemist to the Agricultural Department, has been kept busy lately testing bottles and pipettes for Babcock milk-testers submitted to him for that purpose by factories and suppliers of these articles. The total number of bottles tested was 321, of which twenty-three were condemned, while of thirty-two pipettes tested, three ■were condemned. The errors iii some of the bottles were very large. The neck °f the Babcock bottles is graduated' into divisions which total two cubic centimetres. In some of those tested the spaoe measured 2.7c.c.’5, an error of 35 per cent, plus, which, if used for ascertaining the percentage of cream in milk would give a result far below the actual facts, and would be very prejudicial to the seller. In many, of the bottles tested the error was minus, which, of course, would be very prejudicial, to the buyer. I ortunately most of the errors discovered have been in bottles sent in for testing by suppliers, and not those which have been used in factories. The glasses found to be in error are retained by the department, and those which are accurate are marked with an indelible certificate by the chemist, who urges the necessity of the glasses sent in for testing being submitted in a. perfectly cl-aim condition. It is worthy of mention .lliat most of the inaccuracies were found in glasses “ made in Germany.”