tteport of the Steward of Dairying and Poidtry at Windsor. 719 
Class 1. {Saturday, June 22) Churn Makers and Vendors or their 
Assistants, and Servants employed by Public Companies or Butter 
Factories. 
Class 2. {Tuesday, June 25) Dairymaids. 
Class 3. ( Wednesday, June 2G) Dairymen. 
Champion Class. {Thursday, June 27) Limited to the winners of 
prizes in Classes 2 and 3, aud winners of prizes in the Nottingham 
(1888) Competition other than tliose winning the Champion Medals. 
A Gold Medal was offered by Her Majesty the Queen to 
the competitor who was adjudged first iu the Champion. Class, 
and the Society gave Silver Medals to the competitors placed 
second and third, as well as a Certificate of Efficiency to the com- 
petitors who won money prizes. 
Eight quarts of cream wwe allotted to each competitor. 
On the two first days ice was supplied ad lib., but on the third 
and fourth days each competitor w^as limited to one bucketful. 
Each competitor used his or her own churn and butter-worker, 
the Society providing other utensils and salt. 
With reference to these competitions, which have now be- 
come general all over the country, it appears to me that the 
object for which they were instituted may be lost sight of by 
the fact of so many of the competitors becoming, so to speak, 
" professional." If one looks at the list of competitors and 
prize-winners at the various shows up and down the country, 
one cannot but be astonished at the same name recurring over 
and over again, and the paucity of fresh competitors. I think, 
therefore, that it will be well for the Dairy Committee to con- 
sider if they should not recommend the Council to limit the com- 
petition to those living in the district in which the Show is held. 
The Dairy was honoured by the presence of Royalty on nearly 
every day on which the Show was open, and on Thursday after- 
noon Her Majesty the Queen drove to the Dairy, and after in- 
specting the machines in work, including the Butter Extractor, 
was graciously pleased to present a gold medal to Miss Keel, 
the champion in the butter-making competition. The members 
of the Royal Family who visited the Dairy besides Her Majesty 
were the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess 
Christian, Princess Beatrice, Prince Henry of Battenberg, 
Princess Louise, and the Duchess of Albany. 
In concluding this part of my report I wish to record my 
sincere thanks to the whole of the Staff connected with the Dairy, 
for they worked with untiring energy from early morn to dewy 
eve, and made the Dairy of 1889 one of the successes of a 
great Show ; and also to the Secretary of the Society for the in- 
formation which he has furnished me for the purposes of this 
report. 
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