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of England in dairy matters, and especially to the fact that it is 
no more trouble to make good butter than bad ; indeed, if any- 
thing, less ; ignorance and prejudice being the fostering causes 
of the misapplied labour of so many professional butter-makers. 
The daily lectures of Dr. Voelcker were highly appreciated. 
In another compartment, but under the same roof, were the 
Separators ; but as the Working Dairy forms the subject of a 
special Report, no more need be said about it here. 
The trials of self-binding reapers began on Monday, Aug. 8. 
The crops and fields were all that could be desired, but the 
weather was showery and unsettled. This made the Judges' 
difficult work still more difficult ; but owing to the number of 
machines which actually came into the field being so much 
smaller than that entered for trial, and as, by universal consent, 
the trials in beans were given up owing to the unripe state of 
the crop, our work ended on Wednesday evening, Aug. 10. 
The awards of the Judges were as follows : — 
The M'Cormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 
the Gold Medal for their String Sheaf-Binder. 
Samuelson and Co., Banbury, Silver Medal for their String Sheaf- \^ 
Binder. I S 
The Johnston Harvester Company, 1 and 2, Chiswell Street, London, 1,^ 
E.C., Silver Medal for their String Sheaf-Binder. )" 
H. J. H. King, Newmarket, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Highly Commended 
for his principle of separating and tying sheaves. 
XXXIII. — Report on Miscellaneous Implement Awards at Derby. 
By John Coleman, of Riccall Hall, York, Reporting Judge. 
J udges. 
J. W. KiMBER, Tubney Warren, Abingdon. "W. Scotsox, Aigburth, Liverpool. 
John Coleman, Eiccall Hall, York. 
The visitor to the Show desirous of studying agricultural 
mechanics must have been well pleased at the reduced size of 
this portion of the Exhibition as compared with meetings 
prior to the alteration of fees, its compact arrangement, and 
especially its admirable classification, by which machinery of 
a similar character or for the same object was grouped together, 
thus greatly reducing the labour of inspection, and affordin"- 
opportunities for comparison, of great importance to intending 
purchasers. It is satisfactory to learn that, nothwithstandino- 
the wide-spread depression which has prevailed so long, and 
which, though somewhat mitigated, is still felt severely, more 
business was done than could reasonably have been expected ; but 
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