680 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 
has the indispensable property of being able to perpetuate her species, and 
that in quantities compatible with profitable pig-farming. 
Herman Biddell. 
G. E. Lascelles. 
CHEESE AND BUTTER. 
As Dairy-produce is closely connected with the subject of 
Live-stock, this seems to be the fittest place for the following 
Report : — 
Beport of the Judges of Cheese and Butter. 
There was a large show of Sutter, and, with few exceptions, the quality 
was extremely good, possessing the rare old English delicate flavour. One or 
two lots we disqualified, evidently having been mixed with salt. We noticed 
an absence of colour in most of the samples, which is somewhat imusual at 
this period of the year. 
Although the entries of Cheese were not numerous, the quality was excep- 
tionally good, and the condition excellent for the month of July. 
We noticed an entire absence of Foreign Cheese, and regret that there were 
no entries of Stilton, which certainly ought (in our opinion) to be included in 
the Catalogue of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England. 
We had some little difiSculty in awarding the prizes, in consequence of the 
general excellence of the exhibits, and hence we have highly commended and 
commended several lots. 
On the whole, we consider the Show a very good one in our department. 
John Eastty. 
John Stafford. 
BEES. 
Happily little acquainted with the " points " of these irascible 
insects, the writer must beg to decline criticism upon this 
department of the Live-stock at Shrewsbury ; but would express 
a confident anticipation of good results from the exhibitions of 
Bee-management at the Society's Meetings. The cottage bee- 
keepers of England commonly go so ignorantly on in the 
clumsy and often cruel methods of their ancestors, that it would 
be well if, through the Society's instrumentality, instruction in 
modern systems could be still further extended to them. 
The reader of this Report may have noticed that the writer, 
although not always in perfect accord with the Judges in their 
awards and comments, has endeavoured to abstain from strongly 
marked variance, and to recognise, in all cases, the authoritative 
character of the judicial decisions. This he is anxious to 
emphasise, because, in a rather large acquaintance with breeders 
who are also exhibitors, he repeatedly hears remarks which 
indicate the existence — not, happily, the prevalence — of a very 
