Difference between well-made and ill-made Soft Cheeses. Ill 
The lots packed for post or rail were packed on the same 
lines. In the one case the pounds were neatly shaped to suit the 
boxes, the butter paper being cut to the right size before being 
used ; while in the other case the pounds were put up carelessly 
and without allowing for the shape of the box. In this case 
price would not vary so much, but at least Id. per lb. extra 
might be obtained for that packed neatly. 
It may be thought that bad packing such as last described 
would be very uncommon ; but many of the lots sent for 
competition in the butter classes in the produce tent, which 
was under my charge, were packed as badly as the bad lot 
packed in the dairy. 
This concluded the programme of the dairy work so far 
as it related to butter. 
Experiment No. 9. 
Difference between well-made and ill-made Soft Cheeses , &c. 
On the last day of the Show samples were exhibited of 
cream and Gervais cheeses, showing the difference between 
bad and good work as follows : — 
Four samples of each, as well made as possible. 
Four samples of lots of each kind, tainted through 
being kept in an unsuitable place. 
Four samples of cream cheese made from over-ripe 
cream. 
Four samples from good cream, but badly moulded. 
Six samples of badly moulded Gervais cheese. 
Six samples of over-ripe Gervais made from sour cream. 
It was also pointed out that cream and Gervais cheese bring 
a better return than butter, as seven cream cheeses, selling at 
6d. each can be made from a quart of cream ; while the same 
quantity of cream will only produce 1 lb. to 1J lb. of butter. 
The proportion of milk and cream required to make Gervais 
cheese was also given at two-thirds new milk, one-third cream 
(sweet). 
In carrying out these experiments in the Dairy, I 
received the greatest assistance from Mr. William Sanday, 
Mr. Egerton Gilbert, Miss Jenkins (Dairy Instructress to the 
Staffordshire- County Council), Miss Kirk (Dairy Instructress 
to the Wiltshire County Council), and Miss Watts. 
Ernest Mathews. 
Little Shard eloes, 
Amersham. 
