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of compression may be used with tliis silo, but the exhibitors' patent chain 
npphances are said to be particularly suited for it, as they can be anchored 
in the ground, and are entirelj' independent of the walls. 
One of these silos had been filled on July 7th and 8th with 
1^ acres of unchaffed grass. On Friday, the 11th of July, it 
was again refilled with the chaffed grass, which was cut up by the 
ensilage-cutters in the trial-field. It was estimated that there 
was altogether about 16 tons of grass, which was compressed 
from 9 feet in depth to 3 feet, with 2 beams equalising 16 tons 
of pressure. Instead of the ordinary wooden door, a plate- 
glass door, 30 inches by 20 inches, was inserted, and it was 
thought to have proved pretty conclusively that there had been 
little or no lateral pressure. On the 15th of July, the Judges pro- 
cured from the stand of Mr. Charles Clay, of the Stennard Works, 
Wakefield, one of Clay's Patent Stack Thermometers, for the 
purpose of testing the temperature of the silo at various depths. 
This simple but most useful instrument was readily inserted 
vertically into the centre of the silage. At a depth of 6 inches 
from the bottom the temperature was found to be 86 degrees ; 
this was amongst the unchaffed material which had been in the 
silo for eight days. At a depth of 15 inches from the top, where 
the chaffed material had been in the silo for five days, the tempera- 
ture was 118 degrees. The silo was opened before the close of 
the Show, when the chaffed and unchaffed fodder were found to 
be in equally good condition. 
The Working Dairy, which at Shrewsbury properly occupied 
a prominent position in the centre of the Showyard, has appa- 
rently lost none of its interest to the general public, judging 
from the crowds that generally occupied all the standing room 
where a peep at the work going on was at all possible. 
Although this is now a well-known feature of the annual 
Country Meetings of the Society, yet any report of the Imple- 
ment Department that failed to give a somewhat full account 
of the proceedings at the Working Dairy would be lacking in 
justice to an Exhibition which has awakened an increasing 
interest in the important industry of dairy farming, which is 
now generally allowed to be one of the most profitable of all 
agricultural pursuits. 
The special object of this dairy is to give practical illustra- 
tions of the French and the Danish methods of butter-making. 
I cannot in any way so well describe how this was done than by 
making copious extracts from the carefully-prepared ' Descrip- 
tive Guide to the Working Dairy,' which Mr. Jenkins, with his 
usual forethought, had compiled and placed for sale to visitors 
at 2d. each. 
