562 Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stock on the 
allow the bulk of the buttermilk to drain from it, and is then worked on the 
butter worker for the purpose of abstracting the remainder of the buttermilk. 
M. Ahlborn explains the theory to be that the butter suffers in quality 
through being -washed in water ; but this is entirely contrary to the Norman 
system, and I believe it is not the system followed in Denmark, where such 
fine butters are made. 
Cheese was made on three or four occasions in the German Dairy, but only 
from skimmed milk and on the ordinary Dutch system, excepting a fen- 
pounds of Limbourg cheese made on one occasion. 
In the foreign section there was a Separator to which was awarded the 
Society's medal. I conclude that full particulars of this will be given in 
the report on the implements. 
In the English section, worked by the Aylesbury Dairy Company, the 
Society's programme was carried out daily. About 400 gallons of milk were 
made each day into cheese ; Cheshire and Cheddar by dairymaids from 
Cheshire and Wiltshire respectively, and Double Gloucester and North Wilts- 
by the Aylesbury Dairy Company's cheesemaker. On the last three or four 
days of the Show a rough-coated cheese, which is made in some parts of 
Cheshire and strongly resembles Stilton, was made. 
Churning was carried on during the whole of each day, 150 to 200 lbs. of 
butter having been made. The churns used were Thomas and Taylor's 
" Eccentric " which took the first prize at Bristol last year ; one of Bradford, 
and Co.'s " Midfeathers," an improvement on the one which was commended 
at Bristol, the dashers being fixed similarly to those in the Normandy churn, 
i.e., free from the circumference; and a small American "Oscillating" 
churn, which did not arrive from America until the Wednesday following the 
opening of the Exhibition. 
The Aylesbury Dairy Company adopt the deep-setting system where prac- 
ticable, and exhibited the pans for this system, as well as all other dairy 
utensils. 
They also exhibited a " Cooley Creamer," which is in some respects an im- 
provement on the " Swartz " system, as the milk is set under water, and is 
thus protected from atmospheric impurities, but there are so many taps, valves, 
and other arrangements connected with it that for actual work on anything 
like a large farm the " Swartz " system would probably be found superior. 
For small model dairies one or two of the " Creamers " would doubtless be 
found to answer well. 
The " Separator " referred to bj Mr. Allender was a small 
machine, which, having an interior part of it driven at a high 
velocity, at once delivers the milk poured into it, as cream 
through one exit pipe, and as skim milk through another. It 
will of course be described in the implement report, and in the 
meantime has been explained and figured in the ' Agricultural 
Gazette ' of the 25th July. 
The general characteristics of the exhibition having been thus 
sketched, it only remains to put on record and give due pro- 
minence to the kindly interest shown by the Queen, the Prince 
of Wales, and others of the Royal Family, in the success of the 
undertaking. 
The visit of the Queen, deferred on account of the pelting 
rain from Tuesday July 1st, took place on Saturday the 6th, on 
which day, although the weather was still unpropitious, Her 
