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districts a silver medal is given to the best sheep 

 shearer_, provided the district gives £2 in premiums, 

 and there are three competitors. 



Class III. takes in Dairy Produce, and allots, under 

 similar distinctions as to proprietors, silver medals and 

 money prizes for the best couple of sweet-milk cheeses, 

 and cured butter in samples not less than lllbs., but 

 for three consecutive years, from dairies v^hich have 

 produced not less than 1 cwt. of butter and 2 cwt. of 

 cheese during the season. The Ayrshire Association 

 is specially marked out for honour, and two gold 

 medium medals are annually given at its Kilmarnock 

 Show — one for the best lot of Cheddar, and the other 

 for the best sweet-milk cheese of any other variety — 

 but in either case the cheeses must have been made 

 in Scotland. 



Exhibitors of seeds — not less than three-quarters 

 of each variety of grain, or two quarters of 

 beans or grass seeds — and the best ploughman at 

 ploughing competitions of not less than fifteen 

 ploughs, and the best servant manager where there 

 are four reaping machines at work, are the principal 

 medal claimants under Class IV., or ^^ Crops and 

 Culture.^^ It, however, includes a number of silver 

 medals in aid of local societies not on the list of the 

 district competitions; and stock, wool, the best- 

 managed farm, dsarVj green crop and hay crop, the 

 best sweet-milk cheese and cured butter, the best- 

 kept fences, and the best collections of roots and 

 seeds, all share its favours. 



