Report of Dairy Committee. 
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Devonshire candidates who had suc- 
ceeded in passing the Society’s 
Junior Examination. So far as he 
knew, this was the only case in 
which a County Council had thought 
fit to utilise their examination in this 
way. 
Sir John Thoeold remarked that 
\V. Robinson, who gained one of 
the Society’s Junior Scholarships in 
1890, had since gained a County 
Council Scholarship of 50Z. from the 
County Council of Kesteven (Lincoln- 
shire). 
Dairy. 
The Hon. C. T. Paeker (Chair- 
man) reported that the Committee 
recommended the offer at the Cam- 
bridge Meeting of 1894 of prizes for 
hand-power churns in two classes as 
follows : — 
Class I. — Churns capable of deal- 
ing with 10 quarts and upwards of 
cream — 10£, 6 1., 4 1. 
Class II. — Churns capable of deal- 
ing with from 5 quarts to 10 quarts 
of cream — 51., SI., 21. 
In both classes the churns not to 
exceed one-man power ( i.e . to be 
worked by one man). 
A letter had been read from the 
English Jersey Cattle Society con- 
veying a resolution of thanks for the 
very efficient manner in which the 
butter test was carried out at Chester, 
and again offering the sum of 25 1. at 
the Cambridge Meeting of 1894 for 
the cow in the classes for dairy cattle 
yielding the largest quantity of 
butter in proportion to her live 
weight. The Committee recom- 
mended that the English Jersey 
Society be cordially thanked for their 
offer, but informed that the Council 
regretted that they were unable to 
accept it this year, in view of the fact 
that the chemical test had shown 
itself to be as reliable as the practi- 
cal test by the churn, and that the 
Society would be holding trials of 
churns at Cambridge. 
The Committee had agreed upon a 
schedule of prizes for dairy produce, 
which they had referred to the Stock 
Prizes Committee for inclusion in the 
draft prize-sheet for the Cambridge 
Meeting. They confirmed the offer 
as previously announced of the fol- 
lowing prizes 
One keg or other package of 
butter, not less than 14 lb. and 
under 40 lb. in weight, 10L, 51. 
To be delivered on or before 
Thursday, February 1, 1894. En- 
tries to close January 1, 1894. 
The Committee recommended the 
acceptance of the prizes for produce 
proposed to be offered by the Cam- 
bridge Local Committee, and they 
suggested that the Local Committee 
should be asked to nominate a com- 
petent person to demonstrate in the 
dairy at the show the manufacture of 
the various cheeses for which their 
prizes were offered. 
Preliminary consideration had been 
given to the poultry prize-sheet, but 
the settlement thereof was deferred 
to the next meeting. A suggestion 
by the judge of table poultry, that 
the birds should be killed before 
despatch to the show, was not con- 
sidered desirable. Correspondence 
was read as to the exhibition as 
“chickens” in the young poultry 
classes of birds hatched in the pre- 
vious year, and the Committee re- 
commended that strict instructions 
be given to the judges to disqualify 
any bird which in their opinion was 
ineligible for these classes, owing to 
its having been hatched before the 
year of the show. 
The Committee recommended that 
in future entry fees for dairy produce 
be imposed at the rate of 2s. 6 d. each 
entry for members, and 5s. each entry 
for non-members. The Committee 
gave notice that at their next meet- 
ing they would move for the renewal 
of their annual grant of 100Z. 
Country Meeting of 1895. 
The Secretary reported the re- 
ceipt of a memorial from the Mayor 
and Corporation of Darlington, and 
from a Committee of the town and 
neighbourhood, asking the Society to 
hold its Country Meeting of 1895 at 
Darlington. A large number of 
memorials from the local authorities 
of neighbouring towns and other 
bodies interested in agriculture were 
also received in support of the appli- 
cation. 
Mr. Rowlandson, as the member 
of the Council most closely identified 
with Darlington, ventured to point 
out that the invitation to visit that 
