weights. It remains now to be seen how the cheese, so far 

 well made, ripens by keeping in the climate of Bengal. 



" Mr. Howman was possessed of an idea that probably 

 ghee might be made directly from cream, thus avoiding all 

 the labour and expense of converting the cream into butter 

 as an intermediate product. To test this point, a small 

 quantity of cream (about 8 ozs.) was put into a melting pot 

 over a slow fire, and kept boiling for about half an hour when 

 the curd separated itself from the ghee which was then 

 strained through a piece of muslin. The quantity and quality 

 of the ghee thus made were creditable, but the length of time 

 and the quantity of fuel which was necessary to convert" the 

 cream into ghee, as well as the labour and trouble involved 

 in constant stirring of the liquid to prevent it from burning 

 against the sides of the melting pot, appear to preclude the 

 possibility of profitably making ghee directly from cream. 



" The above were the most important of the numerous 

 demonstrations Mr. Howman gave at the Metcalfe Hall. 

 The working of the separators and the churn was continued 

 to be shown every afternoon to the public up to the 2nd 

 February, when Mr. Keventer, the Dairy Assistant, left for 

 the Khoolna Agricultural Exhibition. Mr. Keventer worked 

 here for two days, and although the quality of butter he made 

 was pronounced to be very good, the proportion of milk to 

 butter turned out by his machines was very low and created 

 an unfavourable impression in the minds of the spectators as 

 to the efficacy of the machines. Of the three butter experi- 

 ments he made, the most successful one gave i Ib. of butter 

 to 32 Ibs. of milk, the proportion usually accepted being i : 

 16. In this connexion I may mention that Mr. Keventer 

 pronounced a sample of native-made butter he saw at the 

 Khoolna Exhibition to be the best he had seen in India and 

 quite as good to look at as any European butter. The people 

 present at the Exhibition did not, however, consider the 

 sample as the best of its kind*" 



