My thoughts are at the moment running on ground rents, royalties and
wayleaves, so if I wander from the subject I hope you will forgive me.
I cannot regard the subject of dairying without thinking how we would
have stood now supposing we had taken up the question as we ought to
have done twenty years ago. We would not now be taking a back seat
with the foreigners. But I always now find great difficulty in
obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions, if I go there casually.
Whether it is the attractions of the pretty dairymaids inside, or the
coolness of the atmosphere, there is certainly very great interest
taken in the competitions and that is satisfactory.
_Monmouthshire Dairy School Prize Distribution,
November 5th, 1895._