72 .1; Beport of the Steward of Dairying and Fvultnj at Wiiidsor. 
divisions, A, B, C, of eacli class, for the purposes of the com- 
petition. There was a notable increase in the number of cows 
entered for the milking test. Last year only eighteen presented 
themselves, but at Windsor there were fifty-two entries, and of 
these forty-one actually came to the pail. 
Dr. Voelcker, who supei'intended the trial, has made the 
following report : — 
Report of the Consulting Chemist on the Analyses of Milk from 
Cows competing in the Dairy Classes, Nos. 155 and 156. 
As instructed by the Daiiy Committea I attended the Windsor Meeting", 
and with my assistant Dr. Leather took samples of the milk yielded by the 
cows competing in the above classes. These samples were subsequently 
subjected to analysis, and the awards were determined on the basis of tho 
results so obtained. 
In accordance with the previously made arrangements, the Cows were 
divided into two classes, which might be termed respectively the " milk- 
yielding " class, and the " butter-yielding " class. Each was again sub- 
divided into three, according to the live-weights of the animals, viz. cows 
of over 1,200 lbs. live-weight (subdivision A), cows between 900 lbs. and 
1,200 lbs. live-weight (subdivision B), and cows under 900 lbs. live-weight 
(subdivision C). 
The cows having arrived in the yard on Saturday, June 22, they were 
allowed to rest until Monday morning, June 24, when they were milked 
dry in the presence of the Steward. After this they were weighed, and 
according to these live-weights recorded they were placed in the several 
divisions of the two Classes. 
Out of a total entry of twenty-six in Class 155, sixteen appeared for the 
competition on Monday evening, and twenty-five out of thirty-six entered 
in Class 1£6. Thus there was at each milking the yield of forty-one cows to 
be weighed, sampled, and analysed. The milking was conducted under the 
supervision of the Steward of Dairying, the lion. Cecil Parker, and the 
Steward of Cattle, Mr. Miller. With their help and that of other willing 
hands. Dr. Leather and 1 were enabled to get through the work expeditiously, 
record the weights, sample the milks, and despatch the latter to London for 
analysis. Owing to the proximity of the Show to London it was found 
more convenient to send the samples to the Society's Laboratory and analyse 
them there instead of erecting, as in the previous year, a temporary labora- 
tory on the Show Ground. 
The first milking for the competition took place at 5 p.m. on Monday, 
June 24, the second on Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. Samples of each milk- 
ing were separately analysed, and each in duplicate. On arrival the specific 
gravity was very carefully taken, then the butter-fat determined by Soxhlet's 
areometric method, the total solids being calculated from these determinations 
according to the well-known formula. In the accompanying tables are 
given the details, both of tlie competition and of the analytical results. 
Unlike last year, when a number of samples had to be diluted in order to 
estimate the fat percentage by the areometric method, this had only to be 
resorted to this year in si.x cases. 
In Class 155, for Cows yielding the greatest weight of milk, the condition 
was added that the milk should contain not less than 12 per cent, of solids 
and 3 per cent, of butter-fat. That this proved a by no means unimportant 
