The Doncaster Meetiiig. 
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preceding year's make ; on this occasion they were to have been 
made in the current year. Cheddar furnished a small show of only 
seven entries, no doubt owing to the backwardness of the season. 
One lot was disqualified on account of its weighing only 45| lb. 
instead of 50 lb. per cheese. Of Cheshire there were 10 
entries, and the general quality was fair, many dairies being 
rather soft. Stilton, six entries, was a fair show for the time of 
year ; the first prize was a very good entry, both in quality and 
in flavour. The effort to encourage the local makes of cheese in 
Yorkshire did not meet with much response, there being only 
two entries of Cotherstone and six of Wensleydale. In both cases 
the display was of so poor a quality that the first prize was with- 
held. Cheeses of any other British make were of fair quality, 
and compared favourably with some of the select classes. 
Cream Cheeses were a limited show, and the hot weather affected 
some of the exhibits. Of British Soft Cheese there were only two 
lots, and neither was good enough for a first prize. 
Regarded as a whole, the exhibition of cheese must be looked 
upon as a poor one — a circumstance of which the withholding of 
three of the first prizes is sufficiently significant. 
Butter. 
The entries were about the same number as last year, 
although the classes were two less, no provision being made at 
Doncaster for scalded cream butter and whey butter, which 
together attracted three dozen entries at Plymouth. 
Fresh butter, free from salt, was not a fine class. The 
exhibits had evidently suffered from having been made four or 
five days before being judged, — " this invariably affects a pure 
butter with no salt." Class 290 comprised 92 entries, and, 
as a whole, the quality was good, as, being slightly salted, 
the flavour was preserved. Most of the entries of salt butter 
had sufiiered through not having been properly protected. " "We 
would strongly advise the placing of these butters in well-glazed 
crocks, and then kept covered with an inch-and-a-half of strong 
brine." 
Cider and Perry. 
The entries were only half as numerous as at Plymouth. 
Still, the 28 entries of cider showed the interest the competition 
excited though it took place in a non-cider country. Of these 
entries, Devonshire contributed 10, Herefordshire 10, Glouces- 
tershire five, and Somerset three, the laurels going to Glouces- 
tershire. 
