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ingenious machines, but about the utility of which a good deal 
of doubt still exists, nor is it at all certain that the cream does not 
undergo some important molecular change from the centrifugal 
force to which it is subjected. 
To obtain the best price for butter, not only should it be 
properly made, but cleanly and tastefully put before the pur- 
chaser, and in this latter 
respect many makers are 
most deficient, and the 
price of otherwise good 
butter is often diminished 
by the slovenly way in 
which it is sent to market. 
To simplify and ensure 
uniformity in this pro- 
cess, a simple machine on 
the principle of a brick- 
press is used, which any 
one can easily work. It 
will make pound or half- 
pound pats, which are 
turned out with the greatest uniformity and rapidity. 
Much skill is required in neatly making it up by hand, and 
the exquisite way in which it was weighed into pounds, and 
made up by the neat-fingered dairymen, each pound wrapped in 
a piece of linen and slipped into a basket (like those in which 
strawberries are sold) just to fit it, must have taught a good 
lesson, not only to many a North-country dairymaid, but to many 
a lady as well. Judging from the quantity of specimen pats sold, 
and from the continuous interest shown in the Dairy from the 
beginning to the end of the Show, by people who were evidently 
not merely sight-seers, but anxious and eager to learn, the Society 
may well congratulate itself in having done no little good, in an 
educational point of view, in this most important but greatly 
neglected branch of British farming — that of butter-making. 
No cheesemaking was done in the Yard, the process being too 
long and too delicate a one to be properly shown and explained 
in the bustle of a Show ; so all the energy of Mr. Allender and 
his assistants was directed to butter. Too much praise cannot 
be bestowed on them, one and all, for the thorough way in which 
the work was done ; nor on the Aylesbury Dairy Company, for 
so well responding to the wish of the Society in carrying out 
such an exceedingly instructive exhibition, and one which should 
form a portion of every future Show. 
