Report of the Senior Steward of Live- Stock. 
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The cream-globules in goits' milk are, I find, smaller than in 
cows' milk ; and as the milk is more concentrated than cows' 
milk, the cream-globules are contained in goats' milk in a more 
perfect state of emulsion than in cows' milk, in consequence of 
which hardly any cream rises to the surface on allowing goats' 
milk to stand at rest for twelve hours or longer. One of the 
samples threw up scarcely 1 per cent, of cream, and the two 
others none at all, after standing for twenty-four hours. 
XXXI. — Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stoch at Carlisle, 
1880. By Lieut.-Col. PiCTON Turbervill, of Ewenny 
Priory, Bridgend. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society intrusts the 
management of the Stock exhibited in their Showyard to four 
Stewards appointed from their body, one of whom retires 
annually, and is replaced by another member. 
During the first year of office, the Steward has charge of the 
Pig classes ; in the second, of the Sheep ; in the third, of the 
Cattle ; and in the fourth and last, he superintends the Horse 
classes, is Senior Steward, and then retires. 
It is a custom of the Society, that at the conclusion of each 
Annual Show the Senior Steward for the year should draw up 
a short Report on it ; and accordingly it now becomes my duty 
to submit the following remarks on the Show of 1880, recently 
held at Carlisle, premising that, as the Society appoints a 
thoroughly able agriculturist (Mr. Finlay Dun has this year 
accepted the office) to prepare a full and exhaustive Report for 
the Journal, it is merely necessary that any statement submitted 
by the Senior Steward should be prefatory to this, and not enter 
into matters of detail connected with the Show. 
For the purpose of selecting a place for holding their annual 
exhibition, the Society divides England into seven districts, 
known as A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, and the Show is held in each 
in the order in which they stand. The Exhibition of 1879 
having taken place at Kilburn, in division " A," that of 1880 
fell to division " B," which comprises the counties of North- 
umberland, Durham, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. 
The necessary funds having been subscribed, and the City of 
Carlisle having, through its Mayor and representatives, offered 
a site in every respect most suitable for a showyard, it was 
resolved by the Council that the Annual Exhibition of 1880 
should be held there on the 12th, 13th, 14th, ISthj and 16th of 
July, under the Presidency of his Grace the Duke of Bedford. 
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