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awarded the 1st prize and certificate to Mrs. Stevenson, the 
2nd prize to Ernest Giles, and the 3rd prize to Mrs. Carr, 
Miss Margaret Hunter being commended. The small number 
of persons entering tends to show that the present system of 
awarding prizes requires alteration. 
It should also be added that the implements used in the 
dairy are not specially recommended as the best. They were 
selected with a view of illustrating, as impartially as possible, 
the best systems in use. If space had permitted, it would have 
been easy to show more appliances, but difficult to operate them, 
because it is almost impossible to obtain a large supply of milk 
for a limited period in good condition at Show-time. The chief 
object kept in view in the selection of such vessels as were not 
exclusively dairy appliances was to illustrate the various ways 
in which labour may be saved. 
With the exception of the " Jersey " Creamer (recommended, 
as stated elsewhere, for trial next year), the hand-power sepa- 
rator, and turbine separator of Laval, both described elsewhere, 
there was no new type of dairying implement exhibited. 
Fjord's centrifugal milk-tester has often been described, and 
M. Baquet's Delaiteuse was fully treated of in last year's 
' Journal.' 
The thanks of the Judges of Miscellaneous Implements are 
due, and are hereby tendered, to the Stewards and Engineers of 
the Society for the readiness and courtesy with which they 
responded to any and every request, whether for administrative 
or technical assistance. 
X. — Report on the Trials of Potato-raising MacJuncs at Newcastle. 
By the late John Coleman, The Mount, York. 
[Mr. Coleman's death having occurred before the revision of his 
report for the printer, that duty devolved upon me, as one 
of his colleagues in judging the potato-raising machines. 
I take this opportunity of expressing my own personal 
regret, and the regret that must be felt by the members 
of the Royal Agricultural Society and the agricultural 
world, for his loss. Mr. Coleman has done much work for 
the Society, and he has done it Avell ; his death leaves a 
blank that cannot easily be filled. — James A. Caird.] 
The deferred trials of these important implements, for which 
the Royal Agi-icultural Society offered two prizes of 20Z. 
each, took place on Tuesday, October G, 1 887, on the farm of 
Mr, Stephen Fairbairn at Gosforth, near Newcastle. Thanks to 
