Farm  and  JJairy  Froduce. 
Class  883. 
J7i> 
No. 
Specific 
gravity 
Total 
solids 
Alcohol 
Sugar.s  as 
gluccse 
.\cidity 
Award 
2783 
1-02.51 
per  cent. 
7.58 
per  cent. 
3-97 
per  cent. 
4-46 
per  cent. 
-371 
1st  Prize 
2794 
IO2H 
6-71 
4-27 
4-46 
-317 
2nd  Prize 
2782 
1-0271 
8-21 
4-20 
5-20 
-322 
3rd  Prize 
2793 
1-0411 
11-02 
2-52 
7-80 
-318 
Com. 
Cla*ss 
884. 
2798 
1-0442 
11-97 
2-51 
6-65 
-375 
1st  Prize 
2797 
1-0306 
10-07 
3-21 
6-00 
-512 
2nd  Prize 
2799 
1-0395 
11-41 
4-25 
6-95 
-385 
3rd  Prize 
2800 
1-0206 
6-79 
5-39 
2-76 
-690 
R.  N.  & H.  C. 
Corn. — The  entries  numbered  twenty-three,  as  against 
nineteen  last  year,  and  were  restricted  to  wheat,  barley,  and 
oats,  no  entries  being  received  for  the  bean  and  pea  classes. 
Mr.  U.  Hewlins  acted  as  Judge,  and  reported  that  although 
the  samples  shown  were  few  in  number,  doubtless  owing  to  the 
time  of  year,  the  quality  of  the  exhibits  was  very  goo(i,  more 
especially  the  wheat  and  oats.  The  samples  of  rough  chaff 
wheat  were  very  fine,  and  some  of  them  unusually  strong. 
The  oats  were  some  of  the  best  that  the  fJudge  had  seen  that 
year,  and  all  were  well  over  the  average. 
Wool. — The  eight  classes  had  fifty-one  entries.  Classes  894 
and  897,  for  different  varieties  of  long  and  short  wool,  being 
the  best  filled.  The  Judge  reports  that  the  exhibits  sent  were 
satisfactory.  He  states  that  in  some  cases  the  fleeces  were 
wrapped  up  with  reaper  twine,  which  was  most  unsatisfactory, 
“as  it  often  unravels  and  gets  into  the  wool,  leading  to  dangerous 
results  in  cloth.” 
Hops. — Eleven  entries  were  made  in  three  classes.  Three 
other  classes,  for  Weald  of  Kent,  Hants  or  Surrey,  and  Sussex 
hops,  were  unrepresented  by  entries.  The  Judge  reports  that 
the  samples  sent  were  good  in  quality  and  well  managed. 
Hives,  Honey,  and  Bee  Appliances. — This  department  was 
organised  as  usual  by  the  British  Bee-keepei-s’  As.sociation, 
the  prize  money  amounting  to  .58/.,  in  thirty-seven  classes. 
The  Judges  of  hives  and  appliances  in  their  report  mention 
specially  a very  interesting  and  instructive  exhibit  in  (Jass  411, 
viz.,  a “ Swarthmore  ” outfit  for  raising  queens,  shown  in 
active  operation  by  Messrs.  James  Lee  & Sons.  Live  cells 
