678 Report on the Exhihition of Live-Stock at Preston, 1885. 
Sheep. 
Nos. 943, 947, 951, 952, 953, 961, 962, 986, 1017, 1027, 1055, 
1056, 1072, 1085, 1093, 1106, 1108, 1109, 1121, 1125, 1126, 
1127, 1128, 1129, 1130, 1131, 1139, 1148, 1149, 1151, 1160, 
1161, 1162, 1176, 1185, 1188, 1206, 1209, 1212, 1223, 1231, 
1238, 1246, 1291, 1293, 1294, 1295. 
Pigs. 
Nos. 1367, 1368, 1369, 1372, 1381, 1382, 1383, 1385, 1387, 
1392, 1401, 1402, 1403, 1414, 1415, 1416, 1420, 1424, 1428, 
1431, 1432, 1436, 1440, 1442, 1448, 1449, 1450, 1451, 1460,. 
1464, 1468, 1471, 1478, 1482, 1495, 1499, 1500, 1511, 1516, 
1517, 1518, 1528, 1533, 1535, 1541, 1545. 
Poultry. 
Nos. 2, 24, 25, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 123, 134, 138, 139, 184, 
185, 188, 189, 201, 205, 209, 219, 237, 270, 274, 297, 298, 304,. 
312, 324. 
Cheese and Buttek. 
For the first time the show of Dairy Products reached' 
something like the dimensions expected at the " Royal," and 
a marked increase of interest was shown by the many who- 
visited the spacious tent in Avhich the competing specimens 
were placed. As success or failure could only be learned from 
the prize cards surmounting the strongly wired lots, and as the 
discussion of cheese and butter, Avitliout necessary adjuncts, is 
of a somewhat trying nature, the merits of the different samples 
must be inferred from the decisions and Report of the Judges. 
The Society is much to be congratulated on the success of the 
Council to give that prominence to Dairy Farming which the 
importance of the subject demands ; the handsome premiums 
of 162/. for Cheese, and 40/. for Butter, have had the effect of 
bring out many additional entries. The Report of the Judges, 
which is full of interesting details, deals with the subject in an 
exhaustive manner ; and the " thoroughness " with which those 
gentlemen performed their delicate and somewhat difficult duties 
is very noteworthy. 
It will be seen that they do not report very satisfactorily of 
some of the exhibits, and their determination not to award 
prizes where they were of opinion that sufficient merit did not 
exist, should have the effect of inducing competitors in the art 
and mystery of cheese and butter making to exert themselves 
to satisfy the requirements of the Society's Judges. By so doing 
