746 Beport of the Steioard of Farm Produce at Windsor. 
of 100/., and 491. for the dairymaids. These were given by the 
Local Society. At this competition there were no less than 181 
entries of cheese. This was in the palmiest days of Cheshire 
cheese-making. 
It is somewhat strange that encouragement should not have 
been given to butter-making until this same Chester Show in 
1858, when 151. was awarded in prizes given by the Local 
Committee. After this there were occasional competitions of 
butter for prizes given locally, but it was not until the Preston 
Show in 1885 that a substantial prize list was framed, and has 
since formed a part of the Society's programme. Prizes were 
offered for butter at Kilburn to the amount of 861., but this 
was then exceptional. 
Wool was first shown at a Royal Show in 1846 at New- 
castle, where prizes were given to the amount of SOI. Wool 
was shown at the Lincoln (1854), Warwick (1859), and Leeds 
(1861), Shows, and again at Newcastle in 1864, mainly in 
competition for prizes given hy Local Societies or individuals. 
At Kilburn the prizes for wool amounted to 86^. for which the 
entries were numerous and on the whole satisfactoiy. 
Hams and bacon were exhibited for the first time in 1877 
at the Liverpool Show, but the prizes were given by Local 
Societies. At Kilburn the Society, in connection with the 
Mansion House Committee, gave prizes for hams and bacon to 
the amount of 180/. These liberal prizes failed to bring an 
adequate number of entries. 
A new departure was made in 1882 at the Reading Show, 
in the shape of a fruit and vegetable exhibition. This did not 
prove successful, as the date of the Show was too early for most 
farm fruits, and farmers and market gardeners did not appear 
eager to compete in the vegetable classes, not having at that 
time realised that these are useful adjuncts to ordinary farm 
produce. No further attempt in this direction has been made 
since the Reading Show, not because the Council do not recog- 
nise the importance of fruit and vegetable growing, and the 
necessity for encouraging these productions, but because it is 
impossible that they can be exhibited in perfection at the end 
of June or the beginning of July. 
Until the Kilburn Show, Cider and Perry did not figure 
in the prize schedule of the Society : not even at Exeter 
(1850), Gloucester (1853), Worcester (1863), Plymouth (1865), 
or Taunton (1875), all centres of fruit cultivation, was any 
encouragement given to this important industry. Mr. Michael 
Biddulph, M.P.. gave all the prizes for cider and perry at 
Kilburn, amounting together to 75^. According to the report 
