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National Government, but also receiving more or less support from the State ; also an agricultural experiment station, which receives $15,000 annually from the National Treasury, and, in some cases, additional aid from the State. The appropriations made by the National Congress for the year ending the 30th June, 1889, amounted to ever $2,200,000.

Constitution of the Dairymen's Association. 1. The association takes as its designation, The Dairymen's Association of . 2. The object of the association is to encourage the improvement of the manufacture of butter and cheese, and all things connected with the above manufactures. 3. To become a member of the association a subscription of $1 per year is all that is requisite. 4. The affairs of the association shall be under the direction of a president, vice-president, a secretary-treasurer, and certain directors named in accordance with the act of incorporation, all of whom shall form the board of directors of the association, and shall make a report of the operation of the association to the annual general meeting of the association. 5. The election of the officers and directors shall take place at the annual general meeting, the date of which shall be fixed by the board. To insure the right of voting at the above election the previous payment of all subscriptions will be requisite. 6. When more than one candidate is proposed for the same office the secretary shall count the votes, and the president shall declare the candidate elected w 7 ho shall have the majority of votes. 7. The officers elected shall remain in office until the following election, and shall be re-eligible. 8. The president shall take the chair at the general meetings and at the meetings of the board of directors. 9. The president shall be ex officio a member of all the committees of the board of directors. 10. To the secretary-treasurer shall be intrusted all the moneys and other valuables belonging to the association; he shall keep, in a special register, minutes of all meetings of the association as well as of the board of directors, and these minutes shall be signed by the president, or, in his absence, by the vice-president and by the secretary-treasurer; he shall, besides, keep books in which shall be entered, regularly and without delay, all the monetary operations of the association. At the end of the fiscal year of the association the secretary shall present before the board a statement of accounts for the directors' approbation. 11. The vacancies which occur among the officers or directors shall be temporarily filled up by the board; and the board shall also nominate the directors for those judicial districts which are not as yet represented. 12. The board, to insure greater efficacy, shall be at liberty to claim the services of specialists as advisers. Bules and Begnlations. 1. The annual or general meetings of the association, as well as those of the board of directors, shall be called by notice in writing from the secretary-treasurer to each of the members of the association and of the board. Notice of the meetings of the association shall be given at least a month beforehand. 2. At the request of three directors or officers of the association, the president may call a general meeting of the board of directors; the call shall be in the form mentioned above. 3. At a meeting of the board of directors three shall form a quorum, exclusive of the president and vice-president. 4. The board of directors may name from among its members a committee to audit the accounts, and other committees for any purpose it may think necessary. 5. The order of business at general and official meetings shall be determined by the board of directors. 6. No question shall be submitted for discussion except it be in writing and placed before the secretary-treasurer. 7. The secretary-treasurer shall be obliged to furnish security to the amount of $400, which security shall be subject to the approval of the board.

Danish Mode of Daiey Establishment, by C. E. Landspeeg, Dairy Consulent, Denmark. . . . . lam a Dane; have been trained to farming and dairy-w 7 ork in all its branches. Since my period of service was completed I have been manager of large and important farms, and subsequently gave my sole attention to dairy-work. I owned, in conjunction with others, an extensive dairy-farm, where there was a daily delivery of the milk produced from eight to nine hundred cows, yielding about 12,000 quarts of milk daily. About this time there began a marked improvement and progress in the condition of dairy-farming in Denmark, inasmuch as the landowners combined together, and established on their joint account large dairies throughout the country; so that now nearly in every village one of the dairies is in successful working-order. I then became manager of one of the largest of these dairies in Saxkjobing, which I managed for two years and a half, and was the only expert who received the highest medal for producing the best and finest butter at the Great Northern Industrial Agriculture and Art Exhibition, held at Copenhagen in the year 1888. The award was given for the production of the finest butter from the mixed milk of a great variety of cows. Since then I have been instructor in the formation of other dairies in this country for the production of both fine and faultless butter and cheese, as also with the formation and management of new dairies, so that they are practically equal to the production not only of the first quality of butter and cheese, but also that they are conducted on the modem system by means of the least labour-saving apparatus; and, further, with regard to the proper feeding and best caretaking of the cattle, the latter of which has necessarily a great influence on the excellence of the products. I