The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-03-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DAIRY PRODUCE.  It will, says a Field correspoodent, be searcely eri ilited, jet the value of the produce of the dairy in this country is considerably more than the valor of all our corn crops, or any other branch a agriculture, with the exception of meat. Mr. Howard, in his estimate, put the value of the corn crops at £36,000,000, and of dairy produce at £42,000,000. Margarine, which, as coinp wed with biet..r, is an inferior and less digestible fat, gradually increasing its sale and its price; while butter is gradually decreasing in price, if we exc..pt a few of the very best home brands. It was stated, too, in the French Clamber, that the retail sale of margarine was practically nil, whilst tie production of it was enurnous; and that whereat from six to seven million kilogrammes were exported as margarine, the rest was mixed with butter ant! entirely lost sight of. In one American State—New Hampshire—margarine must he coloured pink while in two States the law punishing the no of a margarine blend extends to hotels and boarding houses. In this country any colouring of a mixturt to make it resemble butter should be prohibited; awl the admixture of butter with any other fat should be prohibited; and the law should extend tt hotels, rest.curants, eaticg-houses, and boanliug lenses. It, however, is much more to the puniest to tdaintain that any NOW law must be really carried nut, tor the existing law, little use as it is, is nos prart ic.ally a dead letter throughout the greater part of the country. That the consumers are easily derived cannot be chaplets". The following fact, a very common one, relates to butter imported by a hip. E,r us.l, i.e from Heinciiii, and t,,i,sandi of casks of butter are weekly sold in two windier alone of the same quality as that referred to in tin ntedy .is below. This being the ease, the unscrupu. lons butter dealer has only to buy or to merit* I ottera containing a high percentage of water, and of alit, if Hist is agreeable to the customer, tt make an ni.fair profit. How much water butter elm. uld nonnxlly contain is a matter of varies comiderably in good samples; but there wil' be a consensus of opinion with r.garil to the f.;! w' log figures, that tlw proportion of water is .'nor' mous. Butter tat, 7215 per cent. ; casein, 115 pet rent. ; salt, 4'45 per cent.: water, 2105 per cent., Loral, 100 per cent. Here, then, the purchasi r get, wss than llioz. of pure butter fat in every panne s. Surely, therefore, it is time that the i:IW stepped in to deal with the butter trade, to frame a standard of analysis, and to insist oniu mainte. awe.  Nothing luut transpired, says a Vienna correspon. den!, t.gi.e the police any clue to the murderers of the wrist all of St. Stephen's Cathedral, and it is l. rid that the crime will prove one more midi. lion to the list 01 appalling murders conutti!teti during the last f..w week, the perp..trators of whirl still remain undiscovered. The latest theory of the Hine is that robbery was the motiv, of the murder, that tie. a ....sin was su4denly scared and seeped without security his booty. The strike movement at Barcelona is rapidly extending, and it is feared that several factories 'sill shortly be closed. During a drunken quarrel among Slays at Union* town. Pennsylvania, George Haas was stabbed and killed by Joseph Cachi.  Mr. Melton Prior and Mr. Vincent Barrington had a narrow eseano of being shot during the recent elooioneering riots in Buenos Ayres.  Ail early copy,with Ave impressions of the plates, of Tuclivi a “Liber Studiorum " (1808-19) has been at Christie's, among the etchings ani line ant boot, liclongim to the late Sir W. it. Brake, lt (.-mained 70 plated, 14 of which are in the Are s,ote, a 'portrait of the artist, after Count D'Orsay, and list of the plates specially printed for this eon. Hoeo,as sold to Mr. Quaritch for £175. The bt Tornerls illustrations to various poems were as follows • To Byron's "Poems," 25 plates, sold foe Ave guineas; to Campbell's "Poems," 20 plates, es 155.; to Rogers's "Italy "and "Poems," £l5 4e. 61. ; and "Annual Tours," 81 plates, £l6, all being India Drools before letters.