titive trial between the English method of butter-making and 

 the native. For this purpose a native dairyman carrying on 

 a large milk trade at Kidderpore was induced to enter the 

 field with Mr, Howman The proceedings opened by making 

 over 136^5. of milk of the same quality to each of the two 

 parties. Mr. R. Blechynden, Secretary to the Agri-Horticul- 

 tural Society of India, Mr. Irving of the firm of Messrs. T. E. 

 Thompson and Company of Calcutta, and Mr. B. C. Basu, 

 Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, Bengal, superinten- 

 ded the proceedings. Mr. Howman passed his portion of the 

 milk through the " Windsor" separator, and the cream was 

 put aside in a safe place to make it " ripen" and get ready 

 for churning butter on the next day. The native dairyman 

 heated his milk and set it to curdle into dahi in earthen pots 

 which were also put aside for the night. On the next day at 

 12 o'clock several other gentlemen, among whom were Mr. 

 Finucane, Director of Agriculture, Bengal. Dr. Greenhill, 

 Mr. Tremearne, Managing Director of the Great Eastern 

 Hotel,, and the Superintendent of the Sailors' Home, came to 

 see the competitive trial. Mr. Keventer placed the cream 

 made on the previous evening into the Victoria churn, and in 

 less than half an hour the churning was complete, and the 

 butter pressed and made. Against this four godlds were put 

 to work to churn the da hi and get out the butter in the native 

 way. Although no attempt was made to arrive at a compara- 

 tive idea of the time occupied by each process, the gentlemen 

 who watched the proceedings came to be of opinion that the 

 mere process of butter-making as followed by native dairy- 

 men would take full thrice the time as the English process 

 of butter-making from cream. The native dairymen present 

 at the trial seemed to be much interested in the new method 

 and were compelled to own that, apart from other advantages, 

 the English method of butter-making had a decided advan- 

 tage over their own in respect of the saving of labour. On 

 .weighing the two lots of butter, the superiority of the English 



