Report on Cream- Separators and 
■ This year the Council decided to offer two Gold Medals for 
competition at the Reading Show for the best Cream Separators, 
mechanical and horse-power. There were originally ten ma- 
chines entered for competition ; but owing, I believe, to an action 
pending for infringement of patent, only two makers came to 
the Show, exhibiting four machines in all, and these of only 
two distinct principles. The Judges gave these two exhibitors 
two thorough and exhaustive trials, and decided to award the 
Gold Medal to the Laval Separator exhibited by Messrs. Hald 
and Co., 24, Great Winchester Street, London, an exceedingly 
effective machine, being simple in mechanism, requiring little 
regulation or attention when working ; it is easily cleaned, and 
leaves very little milk to be churned when stopped. The cream 
from this Separator is of excellent quality arid consistency, and 
not half churned into butter as from some machines. The sepa- 
ration takes place best when the milk is from 80° to 90°, " about 
the heat at which the milk comes direct from the cow," there- 
fore it requires no cooling, which is a great consideration. The 
only thing to prevent this extremely useful invention finding 
its way into every dairy, except perhaps the very smallest, is 
the price ; and I shall be greatly disappointed if shortly we 
do not see such machines placed before the public in a very 
much cheaper form. By the aid of this Separator, in one hour 
or less from the time of milking, butter of the best quality, 
made from the purest sweet cream, can be delivered on the 
railway en route to the consumer. The product remaining is 
the skimmed or separated milk, a most wholesome and palatable 
product, for which a ready sale should be found at Ad. per 
gallon, or it could be made into cheese in its simple form, or 
lard added and " bosch cheese " (as some gentlemen were 
pleased to call it at the General Meeting of the Society), manu- 
factured. This kind of cheese is very largely made in America, 
and sold in England at a cheap rate ; it forms a wholesome 
article of food, and I can see no reason why it should not be 
sold, always providing it is sold for what it is, and not to pre- 
judice by its cheapness genuine whole-milk cheese. 
The following instructions respecting the trials of Cream 
Separators were issued : 
1. There are three exhibitors and ten entries, all of which 
must be in working order by 9 A.M., on Monday, July 3rd. 
2. The exhibitors are to declare the speed at which their 
machines are to be run. The power to drive them will be 
ascertained by means of a dynamometer at the speed stated, the 
machines being worked with skim-milk or water. 
3. The engineers are to satisfy themselves that the machines 
are really speeded to the proper extent, and they will take such 
