322 In Memoriam.—The late Sir W. Miles, Bart, M.P. 
put each into its little paper envelope in Paris during the night. M. Gei-vais 
sends out over 400,000 of these cheeses daily in Paris alone." 
It will have been noticed that I have laid very little stress 
upon the nature and quality of the food given to milch-cows, 
and, indeed, have almost ignored the processes which lead up 
to the production of the milk. In England, the breeding, rear- 
ing, and feeding of cattle, whether for the production of meat 
or milk, are more thoroughly understood than in any country in 
•the world. The necessity of cleanliness in the dairy, the in- 
fluence even of the water which the cows drink, and with which 
the butter is washed, upon the flavour of the product, are also 
generally recognized. But where English dairy-farmers fail is 
in the jyrocess of manufacture, and that is why I have concen- 
trated so much of my attention upon that branch of the subject. 
In conclusion, I wish to express my very grateful thanks to 
the numerous French dairy-farmers and butter-merchants whom 
I visited, and who treated me, one and all, with a most charming 
frankness and hospitality. I am afraid that I never properly 
recognize the value of my nationality, except when I am in a 
foreign country, but when 1 am in France I am almost made 
patriotically conceited. Several of the gentlemen whom I visited 
are mentioned in the foregoing pages ; but in addition I am 
specially indebted for introductions to them and others : — to my 
distinguished friend M. E. Tisserand, Director of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, to my courteous and able colleagues, M. E. 
Lecouteux, Secretary-General of the French Agricultural Society, 
and M. Delalonde, Secretary-General of the French Dairy Society, 
and last, though by no means least, to my enthusiastic friend 
Mr. Gibson-Richardson, the author of the 'Corn and Cattle 
Producing Districts of France,' who left no stone unturned, and 
no pen untried, to facilitate the object of my journey, — of which 
this Report forms the first part of the record. 
XI. — The late Sir William Miles, Bart., M.P., Vice-President, 
and Ex-President of the Society. 
Dear Mr. Jenkins, 
I send you a memoir of the late Sir W. Miles' work in 
connection with the early Shows of our Society, which Sir B. T. 
Brandreth Gibbs has furnished to me. In addition to the work 
in the Showyard, Sir William took interest in practical experi- 
ments on his fnrm, winch he commnnicatod to the early numbers 
of the '.Journal.' I i'uxA several short notices from him on ex- 
periments which he had made with Poiteviiis manure, Daniell s 
