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for  either.  It  was,  I believe,  thought  that  these  attril)utes 
would  afford  some  clue  to  the  feeding  of  the  various  animals, 
but  this  is  a mere  surmise,  as  I can  find  nothing  in  Mr.  Hall’s 
writings  bearing  on  the  subject,  except  that  at  Kempton  Park 
he  reported  in  one  case  “ the  excessive  use  of  mangolds  had 
destroyed  every  trace  of  colour  ” in  the  butter. 
Whatever  the  reason  may  have  been,  the  Judge  is  in  duty 
bound  to  look  at  all  the  butters  made  in  a butter  test  and 
record,  shortly^,  his  impressions. 
Fig.  6.— Red  Poll.  Milk  x 5(0  diam. 
It  will,  I think,  be  obvious  to  the  reader  that  where  some 
sixty  or  seventy  samples  of  butter  have  been  made  at  a butter 
test — the  milks,  creams,  and  butters  having  all  been  treated 
alike — the  differences  in  colour  and  quality  must  be  put  down 
entirely  to  the  differences  in  the  quality  of  the  milks.  Having 
inspected  at  the  various  ti-ials  I have  conducted,  over  3,100 
