714 Report on Implements at Preston. 
There were only five competitors. They were allowed 
severally to choose their own churns and the quantity of cream 
they required, and the following notes were taken during the 
trial : — 
Miss Mary Hird Ward. Churned 10 quarts cream : produced 8 lbs. butter. 
Butter came in 35 minutes. Carefully tested her cream before commencing, 
but gathered it a little too much before washing ; was careful in not touching 
her butter with anything but wooden articles. Used Diaphragm Churn 
(Bradford's). 
Walter Thoiias Tomlixsox (only 15 years of age). Churned 16 quarts 
cream, produced 13 lbs. butter. Butter a long time coming, a little over 
one hour and a quarter; still the butter was very nice. Was very careful 
in making up, and very quick in his movements. Used Diaphragm Churn. 
William Henry Kxiuht. Churned 10 quarts cream, produced 7 J lbs. 
butter. Butter came in three-quarters of an hour in very good form, but was 
made up badly. Tested his cream before churning. Cotswing Churn. 
Miss Hailwood. Churned 16 quarts cream, produced 13i lbs. butter. 
Butter came in one hour in good condition, but worked it a little too much ; 
rather greasy. Used Cotswing Churn. 
Miss M. E. Sakdham. Churned 24 quarts cream, produced 18 lbs. butter. 
Salted her cream, did not test it. Butter came in 35 minutes. Made it up 
very badly by hand, which was not at all prepared, consequently, instead 
of butter, there was nothing but lumps of grease. Used Hathaway's Barrel 
Chum. 
After carefully watching the competitors at work, and taking notes of their 
waj's and means of producing butter in the Dairy on Monday last, we have 
decided that the following are entitled to the prizes, viz. : — 
Mary Hird Ward. First. 
Walter Thomas Tomlinson. Second. : 
William Henry Knight. Third. 
Miss Hail wood's butter was very good, but not quite good enough for a 
prize ; still we commend her. 
Marian- Smithard. 
B. Travis. 
Miss Ward is to be much congratulated on her success ; had 
she failed, the Society for the Employment of Women might 
have heard of it, and next year there would have been a cry of 
" Dairy-maids to the rescue," to save the credit of the sex in 
a department of industry which is exclusively their own in 
popular esteem. Miss Smithard, who superintends the Working 
Dairy, has set a good example of enterprise to other dairy- 
maids, by exhibiting in use an excellent butter-cooler of her 
own invention. 
The Marian Refrigerating Box for hardening butter is de- 
signed for use in dairies where ice cannot be obtained. It is a 
deal box, kept cool by a very small stream of running water, 
brought by a pipe from any convenient tank, and regulated by 
a tap. Resting on the top of the box is a rather deep tray of 
zinc. This first receives the water ; a tap in this tray lets a 
small stream of water into a spreader, whence the water descends 
