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friend can send us 10 cwt. a week of this quality we shall be 
glad to correspond with him." Two pats could be made per- 
fect ; of a thousand there was no hope. 
His descriptive '^Guide to the Working Dairy in the Show- 
yard at York,' the second of the publications to which I referred, 
is a capital proof of the thoroughness of all he did. The floor of 
the dairy — a most important matter; the delivery of the milk; 
the power employed ; butter-making from ripe cream, and 
from sweet cream ; De Laval's and Neilson's cream-separators, 
refrigerators, churns, butter-workers, can-cleaners for the manu- 
facture in the factory : and Swartz's cooling-can for the farm- 
dairy, the churns proper there, the butter-workers there, the 
hardening-boxes there — scales, weights, and all other details : 
the whole is thorough and complete. 
Work Outside Official Duties. 
The Society of Arts. — Mr. Jenkins's earliest piece of work 
outside of his relations to our own Society was a lecture before 
the Society of Arts on the American system of Associated Dairy- 
ing and its bearing on Co-operative Agriculture, which is 
reported in their 'Journal ' of December 9th, 1870. The details 
of factory cheese-making, and its history and possible extension 
are described, and Swedish, as well as American experience is 
related. The beginnings of English industry in the same direc- 
tion in Derbyshire and Cheshire are announced ; and he refers 
incidentally to co-operation in agriculture generally, which this 
example seems to encourage. The late Lord Vernon presided 
on this occasion : and among the subsequent speakers were 
Mr. Nuttall, of Leicestershire, and Mr. T. Rigby, of Cheshire, 
both well-known dairy authorities. 
The Farmers' Club. — Mr. Jenkins' connection with this Club 
was perhaps the most productive of all his outside agricultural 
relations. His first paper, a comparison of large and small farms 
in providing food for the people — to a large extent based upon 
an analysis of the agricultural statistics of this and other coun- 
tries — was an extraordinary performance for one who had so 
lately entered on an agricultural career. It was the subject of j 
an adjourned discussion, to which he contributed " an adden- 
dum " — a most elaborate statement of the proportion of food 
which goes as mere power spent in the work of the farm compared 
with that which nourishes the population. The paper was 
printed for private circulation, along with a report on Belgian 
agricultural statistics. Another paper, written in 1885, and 
