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Group 5. — Scientific articles. 
A. Scientific instruments. 
B. Models. 
C. Drawings, plans, descriptions, statistical works, &c. 
D. Means of instruction. 
In the absence of the offer of prizes for the best articles 
entered in these several classes, the inducement to exhibitors 
must be sought in the chance of their finding new customers for 
their productions ; and as this consideration is of little value to 
English farmers, who have already the best market at home, 
the fact that there were only about half-a-dozen exhibits of 
cheese and butter from the British Islands is easily accounted 
for. To Continental farmers, and especially to those living 
in countries where agriculture, and more particularly dairy- 
farming, is beginning to advance, the Exhibition afforded a 
grand opportunity of showing the dealers of Hamburg and other 
great towns in consuming countries the improved quality of 
their dairy produce. A short review of the Catalogue of the 
Exhibition will show how extensively the opportunity was seized, 
and what an effective organisation was brought to bear upon it 
in some of the more remote provinces. There were, in round 
numbers, nearly 700 entries of butter, 400 of cheese, and 600 of 
implements and other aids to the manufacture of dairy-products. 
Exhibitors were allowed to give, in addition to the description 
of their entries, a short sketch of their farm and farming ; viz., 
nature of the soil and subsoil, number and breed of cows, 
summer and winter fodder, average yield of milk per cow, 
method of making the cheese or butter pursued on the farm. 
These short statements invested with interest samples of cheese 
and butter which otherwise would have had little attraction for 
anyone but a merchant or dealer. Again, several foreign states 
and some provinces of the German empire sent " National col- 
lections," and the list of the first detachment of these was usually 
preceded by a short sketch of the agriculture of the country or 
province, or a separate pamphlet was distributed gratis by the 
Commissioner in charge of the collection. That nothing should 
be wanting to enable the visitor to appreciate the Exhibition, 
the Catalogue was prefaced by a short memoir on the Hamburg 
trade in dairy products ; and the Committee also issued a Hand- 
book to the Dairy-farming of the several provinces of the 
German Empire. 
Although no prizes were offered by the Committee, yet after 
the entries had been made, the German Emperor offered a work 
of art worth 300/. for whatever might be deemed most meri- 
torious connected with the Exhibition. This offer led to 
several others, and the following is the list of Awards : — 
