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whose butter when ready for adjudication was in splendid condition, firm in 
texture, free from moisture, and made up in a tasteful manner. Not much 
inferior was the butter made by Miss Frances M. Cole, The Dairy, Home 
Farm, Tring, Herts, who was placed second, by a mere point or so. The 
third, fourth, aud fifth prizes were taken by really excellent butter. 
In the second day’s competition (Class II.), amongst “ female members 
of a farmer’s family not in service or working for wages,” there were seven- 
teen competitors, the general excellence of whom was most satisfactory. 
There appeared to be some novices here as regards competing for prizes, 
but a large number of those competing showed that they had been well in- 
structed in the art of butter-making. Many of these had been pupils of 
Dairy Schools under County Councils, or had received instruction from 
County Council teachers. The first prize was awarded to Miss Agnes A. 
Walker, Dymock, Gloucestershire, and certainly the exhibit was of most 
excellent character. The other prizes were awarded to Miss Hetty Baynes, 
Broxted Hall, Dunmow, Essex ; Miss Edith S. Wright, Appleby, Doncaster ; 
Miss Rose Powell, Westry House, March, Cambs ; Miss Gertrude Connell, 
Manor House, South Croxton, Leicester, in the order placed. The Reserve 
Number was awarded to Miss Mary Wilson, Stone Broom Lane, near Alfre- 
ton, Derby. Thus the prizes were allotted to competitors from over a wide 
range of England, thereby affording evidence of the extended influence of the 
Dairy Department of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
The third day brought four competitors (Class III.) for the Society’s 
prizes offered for Dairymaids and others residing in the Society’s District A. 
The first prize was taken by Miss Elsie G. Cook, Clock House Farm, Ashford, 
Staines ; the second was awarded to Miss Agues Mary Watts, Fairgreen, 
Chipping Norton, whose butter came extremely close to Miss Cook’s in 
general quality. 
Another competition (Class IV.) for dairymaids and others for prizes 
offered by the Cambridge Local Committee brought together twelve com- 
petitors. Here there was considerable interest evidenced on the part of 
visitors to the Show. The Dairy was surrounded during the churning and 
butter-making by an enthusiastic assemblage. As might be expected, the 
butter made at this competition was not up to the excellence of the butter 
made previously, but it may be stated that there was really no incom- 
petent butter-maker in the competition, whilst many of them were really 
good. 
On Friday the competition for the Society’s Silver Medal aud prize of 
£5 gave the Judges a most difficult task in adjudication. This was the 
Champion Class, and was composed of the prize-winners of the previous 
competitions. 
The temperature of the Dairy, although much lower than in any other 
part of the Showyard, was decidedly bad for butter-making. At one time 
the thermometer stood at 75° Falir. in the coolest part of the Dairy, so that 
the competitors had need of knowledge and skill to manipulate butter under 
such difficult conditions. 
It was knowledge and skill, without question, that enabled Miss Elsie 
Cook and Miss Iletty Baynes to bring their butter in such splendid condition 
at this competition, in such trying weather. The difficulty of placing their 
butter in positions of relative merit gave us no little trouble. 
It would be impossible to find a finer collection of butter than was 
brought to be judged by the twelve persons who competed for the champion 
prize, and taking into account the trying character of the weather and the 
ordeal of working in the excitement of a showyard, the operators showed 
that they were accomplished in their art, 
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