SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

SALTED OR* UNSALTED BUTTER’

Melbourne, January 13,

At the Science Congress, Mr Crowe of the export said tha a series of trials conducted by tin department showed that unsalted but ter keeps better in cool storage ove. a lengthened period than salted but ter. Of the total exported 35 pe cent, was unsalted though it usual!: commands 2s above salted on the Eng lish market.

FERTILISING

(Received 8.10 a.m.) Melbourne, January 14

At the Science Congress the d.scussion was general on ol soil fertility in Australia, and it was the subject of several papers. It was the general opinion that fertilisers in Australia were seldom worked out on cultivated land, and practically the whole of what was not used up by the crop remained as permanent addi tions to soil within nine inches of the surface.

Mr. Smith, Acting-Government Statistician for New South Wales, in a paper on the cost of orphans’ annui ties in Australasia, stated that at the .age of forty-three, nine out of ten men in the public service in New South Wales, and'eight out of ten in the Commonwealth, w ere married. The number of children was under sixteen to the 100 persons in New South Wales between the ages of twenty-one and seventy. In the public service of New South Wales it was 182 in the Commonwealth 127, and amongst the general population of New South Wales the number was seventy-eight. Mr. A. Richardson read a paper on “Wheat Improvement,” He said the time was not far distant when wheat would be sold on grade, like butter, fruit, and other produce. The production of drought-resisting varieties was a problem of’peculiar importance to Australia.

The hygiene-sanitary-s.ience .section decided to urge the Governments of the States and New Zealand to hold a conference of the chief medical veterinary officers with a view to reporting upon uniform measures for the control of tuberculosis among cattle and pigs. Mr. Richardson said that improved methods in grain culture had placed the wheat industry of the Commonwealth in a very secure position.