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tions in butter-making, an innovation which has been the means 

 of attracting the public and adding many skilled persons to the 

 ranks of practical dairy workers. It is probable that no man 

 gave so much assistance in promoting the extension of the 

 working dairies and butter-making competitions as the late Mr 

 H. M. Jenkins, whose early death was ^great blow to dairying. 

 The next important agricultural society to follow suit was the 

 Royal Dublin Society, which enjoyed the invaluable aid of 

 Canon Bagot, who has laboured harder* than any man to spread 

 a knowledge of good butter-making ; of Professor Carroll, to 

 whom the great early successes of the_^lunster School were due, 

 and who is chiefly responsible for the admirable system now 

 conducted at the Glasnevin College and Farm, of which he is 

 director ; of Mr James Robertson, an indefatigable, earnest, and 

 well -beloved worker in the cause ; Mr Richard Barter, honorary 

 secretary of the Munster School, and others. Next came the 

 Bath and West of England Society, which, under the manage- 

 ment of another great friend of dairying, Mr George Gibbons, 

 has conducted some of the best demonstrations^cream-raising 

 trials and butter-making competitions. At each exhibition since 

 the introduction of the dairy, the writer has given a variety of 

 demonstrations at this great annual meeting, together with 

 lectures on general dairying. Important series of lectures 

 have also been given by Canon Bagot and Professor Carroll. 

 Lincolnshire made the next departure, and, as in the case of the 

 Essex show, conducted working dairies, with lectures, in con- 

 nection with the British Dairy Farmers' Association. The 

 Cheshire Dairy ShoAV has, with the practical help of Mr Rigby, 

 Mr Willis, and many others, always been a success in this 

 direction ; and Mr Rigby has carried his zeal into the great 

 Manchester and Liverpool Society, of which he is secretary, 

 where a first-rate working dairy was organised last year, and 

 where lectures were daily given by Professor Carroll and our- 

 selves. The Royal Counties, the Somerset, and the Suffolk 

 Societies also started in the same direction last year, although 

 on a smaller scale ; while the Gloucestershire Society has already 

 advanced far, under the incentive long given by Lieut.-Colonel 

 Curtis Hayward and Dr Bond. Working dairies and lectures 

 have now become somewhat general, and are gradually extend- 

 ing throughout the country, as we have reason to know, from 

 the many requests made to us to render assistance. We have 

 now, however, no fear in stating that several of those who have 

 so long carried their advocacy of improved dairying into more 

 practical platforms have, except in few instances, done so at 

 their own expense. There is, however, a limit to such work, 

 more especially in the C9,ses of men to whom both time and 

 expense is of considerable moment. • 



