The Trials of Churns at Cambridge. 
49 ? 
The “ Vincent ” made good butter, but the design and con- 
struction of this churn were not of such a substantial character 
as to ensure the very desirable quality of durability, and only 
warranted our regarding it as an experimental machine. An 
ingenious attachment of the strainer and the provision for turn- 
ing over the box to drain are worthy of notice. 
The full list of the awards made in these competitions is 
printed in the Appendix, p. clxii. 
The Judges — Mr. D. A. Gilchrist and myself— are indebted 
to the Engineering Staff of the Society for the diagrams show- 
ing the power taken by the churns, and to the Dairy Stewards 
and officials for the efficiency of all the arrangements for carry- 
ing out the competitions. 
Percy E. Crutchley. 
Sunninghill Lodge, Ascot. 
TYPICAL FARMS IN EAST ANGLIA. 
As a North-country farmer I freely acknowledge having learned 
much while engaged in the interesting work of inspecting — in 
connexion with this year’s Country Meeting of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society at Cambridge — the selected farms in the 
counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk. A great deal of 
what I may attempt to describe may seem commonplace to 
East Anglia farmers — so commonplace as to be deemed by them 
unworthy of space or attention. Believing, however, that the 
object of this paper is to give farmers at a distance some idea 
of the working of the land, and the management of stock in the 
above-named counties, it may be that many of these every-day 
details will prove as interesting to them as they have been 
instructive to me. 
Within the space at my command it seems presumptuous on 
my part to attempt the description of the twenty-two large 
holdings which I saw. Every one of the number could have 
afforded the material for a lengthened report that would have 
been instructive to farmers in other districts of Great Britain. 
I desire at the outset to acknowledge the kindness and 
courtesy with which I was invariably received, and the willing- 
ness with which answers were at once given to my rather 
inquisitive, though perhaps pertinent, questions. 
In order that farmers in other districts may understand the 
position of their brethren in East Anglia, it may be well to 
notice the different local conditions under which the farms are 
held. 
