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tingham. Mr. Rossell finds churns, puts the milk on the rail 
twice daily at Sandiacre, and pays ^d. per gallon carriage. 
Accounts. — These and a diary are well and carefully kept, 
and have been for ten years.* The stock is valued, and 
a balance properly struck each year on April 6th, Old Lady 
Day, the common time of entry in this district. 
Although the entries in this class are limited, the competition 
is keen, and Mr. Rossell comes in a very good second, the 
general management of the farm being highly commendable, 
and the financial results very satisfactory, forming a good illus- 
tration of industry, shrewdness, and economy. 
XXX. — Report on Cheese-mahiiig in Derbyshire. JBy Geokge 
Gibbons, Tunley Farm, near Bath. 
The Judges went to Derbyshire expecting to find the manufac- 
ture of cheese a very important feature in the farms competing 
for the prizes offered by the Royal Agricultural Society, espe- 
cially as only two of the entries were made in the Arable Class ; 
but to their surprise they only found cheese made regularly 
on two of them, viz., on the off " Nothill " farm of the late 
Mr. W. T. Carrington, on the small farm of Mr. Milner, of 
Alfreton, and occasionally on some of the other farms, when 
the supply of milk is greater than the requirements of the 
trade. Not long since Derbyshire cheese was made through- 
out the county in large quantities, and realised remunerative 
prices, but within the last twenty years a complete revolution 
has taken place in its dairy husbandry. There are still the fine 
herds of capital, roomy, massive Shorthorns, with plenty of flesh 
and hair, and above all yielding milk in such profusion that 
would make many a high breeder disgusted with his own stock ; 
and of many of the competitors it may be truly said — 
" His kine with swelling iidders ready stand, 
And lowing for the pail invite the milkers' hand." 
Few of these animals can boast of any pedigree save that of 
being descended from heavy milkers, and ^having for their sire 
a bull selected for a similar reason. 
' The room, outside of whose windows some thirty years since 
was a board, on which were the words " Dairy Room " con- 
spicuously placed to show that it was thus exempt from window- 
tax, is now tenanted simply by a plaything of a milk-pan 
to raise a little cream for the family. The cheese-tubs, many of 
* Mr. Kossell kept the accounts when with hLs father before he was sole 
tenant. 
