542 Rejwrt on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Derby. 
There is a prevalent idea tliat Stilton cheese can only be 
made by the addition of extra cream, or that taken from the 
evening's milk mixed with the new milk of the morning, thus 
necessitating the making of a large quantity of skim-cheese, 
unless the milk can be otherwise disposed of. This certainly is 
not the case at Etwall. It is there made twice a day from new 
sweet milk, fresh from the cows, by the most simple and natural 
method possible. Of course, the temperature and atmospheric 
influences have to be carefully watched, and the operations 
expedited or retarded accordingly, otherwise it may be almost 
said to make itself. There is no waste of butter in the breaking 
or other processes, as is too often the case in many dairies. No 
pressure is applied, and it is scarcely touched with the hand. 
A fine rich creamy product is the result, and, although not a 
cheese for the million, it deservedly commands, with its deep 
blue veins, the highest price of any made in Britain. 
The inspections were most happily fixed. That of the winter 
took place when it was clear, bright, and frosty ; the next in a most 
beautiful spring-time ; and the last in well-nigh tropical heat. 
The competitors did all they could to render the duties of the 
Judges pleasant and agreeable. The only drawback was the 
lamented decease of the largest competitor, the late Mr. W. T, 
Carrington, of Croxden Abbey, by which sad event each one 
felt they had lost a friend, and agriculture one of its foremost 
men. 
In conclusion I have to express my cordial thanks to all those 
who most courteously gave me unstinted information respecting 
their methods of manufacture, and every opportunity of seeing 
them in operation. 
XXXI. — Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Derby. 
By Chakles Whitehead, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., of Barming 
House, Maidstone, Senior Steward. 
In the Reports of the Senior Stewards of the Shows held at 
Carlisle and Kilburn, it was their misfortune to chronicle an 
abnormal rainfall, and with mournful eloquence to describe its 
effect upon the soil of the Showyards, and its damaging influ- 
ence upon the success of the Shows. This present chronicler, 
on the other hand, is enabled to present a bright record of 
almost uninterrupted sunshine, as there hardly was a cloud in 
the sky, and not one drop of rain fell from the opening morning 
to the end of the Show. While it was a happy and somewhat 
