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make bad butter good, so thus only the purest and healthiest 

 of butter is worth the care and trouble of curing, not with 

 rough salt, but with a strong and pure pickle or very fine salt. 

 In the show-room were also exhibited two Scotch Cheddars, 

 made a year previous at Dumfries Show, and one Cheddar 

 Dunlop. They were in fine order, and reflected credit on those 

 who had kept them. 



Working Dairy. 



The working dairy was, as formerly, a great attraction at the 

 Show. It was managed as formerly, but on this occasion a 

 dairyman from the Aylesbury Dairy Company was engaged to 

 work the centrifugal separator and to make some of the butter. 

 A Jersey creamer was used, and though a shed in a showyard 

 is not a very suitable place for butter-making, very fair bucter 

 was made both from the separated cream and the Jersey creamer, 

 though there was no doubt the butter made from the Jersey 

 cream was the best. The cheese-making was carried on by Mr 

 R. J. Drummond, the instructor in Ayrshire, and was most 

 satisfactorily conducted. As usual, the demand for strawberries 

 and cream and for separated milk was very large. 



Iviplements. 



1. Weighing Machines. — The Judges reported, — Having ex- 

 amined and tested the cart and cattle weighing machines 

 exhibited by Messrs Henry Pooley and Son, Albion Works, 

 M'Alpine Street, Glasgow, recommend that they be awarded a 

 premium of £10 for the cart and cattle weighing machines No. 

 1321 and No. 1323, entered for competition. They suggested 

 that the cattle cage for No. 1323 should be increased in length 

 12 inches, to give sufficient space for cattle. The small size of 

 machine the Judges considered suitable for ordinary farm pur- 

 poses. The larger machine, No. 1321, might be advantageous 

 on large holdings or where lorries are in use. 

 , 2. Sanitary Appliances. — The Judges also examined the 

 sanitary appliances exhibited by Messrs Ben. Reid and Co., 

 Aberdeen, for competition. The pump exhibited. No. 525, 

 would be useful where heavy liquid matter has to be removed, 

 it being simple in construction, effective, and cheap, and 

 recommend that a premium of £2 be awarded to them for the 

 pump No. 525. 



Bee Husbandry. 



The Caledonian Apiarian Society held their fourteenth exhibi- 

 tion of honey, hives, and bees in connection with the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society's Show at Perth. The exhibits were 

 as numerous as on former years, and were of an exceptionally 



