AT a meeting of the Bromsgrove branch of the Midlands Farmers’ Association, president Mr L Lambert was strongly in favour of starting a milk records society which he said would stimulate the interest of farmers in the yield of their cows. He did not suppose the average yield of farmers’ cows was more than 500 gallons per cow per annum and seeing that that couldbeincreased to 650 or 700 gallons, it had always been a mystery to him why dairy farmers took so little interest in the breeding of the right sort of cow. The proposal for a milk records society was agreed.

MEMBERS of Stoke Prior Parish Council voted against the introduction of urban powers to remove refuse from Aston Fields. In its opinion the sanitary conditions did not require it since there was no evidence that flies could breed in the communal ash pits. Residents had signed a petition to have ash collected by the council at a cost of £200 a year, instead of using one of six privy ash pits, which were emptied intermittently, or paying to have their own ash pits emptied twice a year.