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entering a dairy school, and the lectures serve to stimulate their 

 interest, or to satisfy their curiosity as to much that must be 

 unfamiliar to them in the careful work of the competitors in 

 the various dairy competitions. The subjects dealt with at 

 Shrewsbury were : — 



(1) The quality of milks from the various breeds of Dairy 

 Cattle in Great Britain. (2) The sampling and treatment of 

 milk for experimental work. (3) Different methods of treating 

 cream when used for butter-making. (4) Effect of good and 

 bad churning and general Dairy work on the weight and quality 

 of butter. (5) Surplus milk on the Farm and how to use same 

 to best advantage : — (a) cream, (J) scalded cream, (c) cream 

 cheeses, (d) small hard cheeses. (6) The importance of clean- 

 liness both in milk and cream. Taints in the Dairy and 

 elsewhere. (7) The use and abuse of colouring material in 

 Commercial butters and milks. ^^y 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 

 EXHIBITION, SHREWSBURY, 1914. 



The Education Exhibition which Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones 

 directed at the Shrewsbury Show must be classed as one of the 

 best the Royal Agricultural Society have ever provided at their 

 annual summer meetings. Visitors who remember the first 

 efforts of the Society at Park Royal to bring to the public the 

 research work that was being carried out by the different 

 experimental stations and colleges will recall that the one 

 building was sufficient to house the Forestry and Educational 

 exhibits. At Shrewsbury three tents — each of the size of the 

 original one at Park Royal — were necessary to accommodate 

 the exhibits, in addition to the annexes that connected the 

 three main buildings. There was a pleasant feature about the 

 1914 exhibition which, it may be hoped, will be continued at 

 future Shows. The district in which the 1914 " Royal " was 

 held included the area in which the Harper-Adams College is 

 situate, and to their credit it must be said that instead of setting 

 up a separate educational tent for their own exhibit thej- 

 cordially fell in with the idea that the R.A.S.E. have always 

 had, that the college of the district in which the Show is held 

 should take the lead in the educational section of the exhibition. 

 The result of this hearty co-operation was a most instructive, 

 large, and well-staged exhibit, and the expressed approval and 

 delight of many visitors must be a source of satisfaction to the 

 Harper-Adams authorities. Tlie Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station, Harpenden, had taken a bay for its exhibit. The 



