Report  on  Implements  at  York. 
601 
This  alone  was  registered  in  the  books  as  302  lbs.,  and  the 
public  finished  this  extraordinary  gastronomic  performance  by 
eating  two  of  the  hard  cheeses,  the  weight  of  which  had  been 
entered  as  31  and  37  lbs.  respectively. 
“ Fortunately  they  were  stopped  at  this  point,  but  the  Back- 
stein  experiment,  as  I have  said,  was  at  an  end.  Several  of  the 
hard  cheeses  were,  however,  taken  by  one  of  the  Judges  of 
Cheese  and  Butter — Mr.  G.  W.  Burrows,  of  36,  Snow  Hill — 
and  his  report  of  their  reception  on  the  London  Market,  when 
they  are  ripe  enough  to  be  sold,  will  be  looked  forward  to  with 
interest  by  those  who  find  a difficulty  in  making  a profitable  use 
of  their  skim-milk.  But  it  is  unfortunate  that  circumstances  of 
weather,  and  the  exigencies  of  a Showyard,  must  always  prevent  a 
fair  trial  being  given  to  any  system  of  Cheese-making  at  one  of 
our  country  meetings.  Such  rain,  for  instance,  as  fell  from  Friday 
evening  until  Monday  morning,  almost  without  intermission,  was 
enough  to  ruin  any  newly  made  cheese  kept  in  a temporary  shed. 
“ It  is  eminently  satisfactory  to  be  able  to  state  that  there  was 
but  one  opinion  as  to  the  quality  of  the  butter.  Although 
800  lbs.  made  in  a Showyard  in  six  days  is  rather  a large  quan- 
tity, there  was  not  the  least  difficulty  in  selling  it  at  fair  prices 
wholesale,  and  high  prices  retail.  The  refreshment  purveyors 
had  been  offered  it  in  certain  equitable  quantities  per  diem  at 
Is.  2 d.  per  lb.,  and  most  of  them  gladly  seized  the  offer.  It  was 
considered  desirable  to  reserve  a proportion  for  the  public,  who 
willingly  paid  2s.  per  lb.  on  the  first  three  days,  and  Is.  6d.  per 
lb.  on  the  shilling  days.  The  Manager  of  the  Station  Hotel, 
belonging  to  the  North  Eastern  Railway  Company,  took  as 
much  as  could  be  spared,  and  he  stated  that  the  visitors  began 
to  complain  when  they  had  any  other  butter  given  to  them  after 
they  had  once  been  served  with  that  from  the  Society’s  dairy. 
But  the  highest  testimony,  probably,  was  that  given  by  those 
refreshment  purveyors  who  had  not  agreed  to  purchase  any  of 
the  Society’s  butter.  On  the  evening  of  the  first  day  (Monday, 
July  16th),  they  begged  to  be  allowed  to  have  some,  as  the 
visitors  complained  so  much  of  the  inferior  quality  of  what  was 
served  them,  as  compared  with  what  had  been  given  them 
at  the  other  sheds.” 
Silver  Medals. 
The  following  novelties,  in  addition  to  Messrs.  Howard’s 
Straw-trussing  Machine,  already  described,  were  considered 
sufficiently  meritorious  to  justify  recommendation  to  the  Imple- 
ment Stewards  for  Silver  Medals,  which  were  granted : — 
5061.  Threshing  Machine,  with  Exhaust  E.  Foden,  Sandbach,  Chester. 
227.  Steam  Plough  C.  Cattley,  York. 
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