TRAPPING THE JUDGES.
The "Waimate Times of a recent date says : —A rich story has cropped up in connection with the judging of dairy produce at a recent agricultural show, held not a hundred miles from this district. Two ladies resolved to exhibit fresh and powdered butter at the show, but it was agreed that only one of them should make the exhibits. Accordingly one of the exhibitors made and prepared the butter all from one churning, and entered it as four exhibits, two in the fresh • butter class, and two in the powdered butter class, but of course under different names. In due time the judges came to perform their part in the work, and in making their awards they placed one of the entries of fresh butter first but the other entry was out of the running altogether. With the powdered butter one exhibit was allotted second prize, while the other was described by the judges as very good, but too saltfi and secured no award. The number of entries in each class was the same, and reached nearly a dozen. Perhaps such a test was hardly fair to the judges, but certainly it showed the fallibility of their judgment. Evidently they had lost their power of discernment by too much tasting. „_______„__
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1834, 29 December 1888, Page 1
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214TRAPPING THE JUDGES. Temuka Leader, Issue 1834, 29 December 1888, Page 1
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