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TJie Plymouth Meeting. 
Butter. 
This was a large display — 183 entries in five classes. The 
Judges speak approvingly of the arrangement, the samples being 
covered with glass after judging, and provision made for the 
use of ice in keeping the butter firm should the weather render 
it necessary. This plan is carried out on a large scale at the 
Danish National Show. 
Although the lack of quality in the class of fresh butter, 
absolutely free from salt, rendered it difficult to apportion the 
two sets of prizes — five of 51. and five of 31. — this system, 
which practically means the separation of ten samples into two 
classes, the Judges found to be an excellent one, notwithstand- 
ing the fact that they found but one sample worthy of being 
regarded as highly meritorious. 
" The majority of the samples in this class were mild, but their flavour 
■was not exactly that of the finest butter. In some instances the exhibits 
were made from clotted cream, although a class was provided for butter 
made upon that system ; in others, but these were fortunately few, the butter 
was either very badly made or very disagreeable in flavour." 
For fresh butter, slightly salted, all the first prizes were 
awarded, the samples being more generally excellent than in the 
preceding class. This may possibly have arisen from the em- 
ployment of salt, for traces of the " off" flavours so discernible in 
the former class were not noticeable. The majority of the ex- 
hibits were extremely well made. 
The quality of the butter made from scalded cream was 
generally good. In some cases smoky and lardy flavours, and 
in others curd, were obviously detected, both by roughness and 
by taste, but no sample was forthcoming in which the flavour 
conveyed by the scalding process was absent. 
The class for whey butter was a failure, only three entries 
coming forward. The first prize sample was like average tub 
butter, the others were inferior. In view of the fact that good 
butter has been made — and can be made — from whey, the Judges 
recommend that this class be repeated. 
The class for kegs or packages of salt butter included some 
excellent samples. " All the prize butters, and one or two 
others, were mild, and decidedly superior to the best brands of 
ordinary tub butter sold in the market." It is suggested that 
this class also might be repeated. 
Cider and Perry. 
Of 61 entries in this section five were perry and the rest cider. 
The struggle between Devonshire and Herefordshire resulted 
