2 so Agricultural Education Exhibition, jVorivich, 1911. 



because an open dairy in a showground, with the impossibility 

 of regulating the temperature of the room where the cheeses 

 were kept at night, are conditions not too favourable to the 

 manufacture of pressed cheeses. 



The time taken in making each cheese, excluding the 

 pressing and turning, was about 2^ hours. The cheeses, when 

 made, were kindly kept and looked after until ripe by Mr. 

 John Benson. They realised 9d. per pound, the weights 

 averaging about 5^ lb. each. 



The experiment is useful, as it shows that the making of 

 these cheeses is not very difficult, and that it is a very profit- 

 able way of using surplus milk on a farm, the cost of the 

 utensils and the labour in making the cheeses, being com- 

 paratively small. 



Ernest Mathews. 



Little Shardeloes, 



Amersham. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION EXHIBITION, 

 NORWICH, 1911. 



The Education Exhibition was again housed adjoining the 

 Forestry section and was in the charge of Sir J. B. Bowen- 

 Jones, Bt., whose long and devoted labours in the cause of 

 " Practice with Science " every member of the Society is glad 

 to see acknowledged. The section was not so representative of 

 the colleges as in former years owing probably to the distance 

 of the show from most of the educational centres, but in quality 

 the exhibition was fully as interesting and instructive as usual. 

 More space was allotted to the Nature Study exhibit organised 

 by the County Councils of East Anglia, so the area occupied by 

 the exhibition was as large as before. 



The Society's Show is the only occasion when the work of 

 the Agricultural colleges throughout the kingdom can be 

 viewed as a corporate whole, and even when only a few of 

 them are actually represented one realises what a large and 

 increasing debt the country is under to them in their work for 

 agricultui'e. The great strides which have been made in recent 

 years in the advance of knowledge of the use of manures and 

 feeding stuffs, in soil science, in the investigation and treatment 

 of plant iliseases and pests, the improvement by hybridising of 

 our farm crops, to name a few examples, are verj- striking, 

 and the average agriculturist is a little prone to take all these 

 l)enefits for granted and d(H^s not realise tlie difticulties, finan- 

 cial and otherwise, which the coHeifes have had to contend 



