SEC Form 4 
FORM 4	UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 	  
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	Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).			
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
PRESTON MARGARET M V	

(Last)	(First)	(Middle)	
MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED	
18 LOVETON CIRCLE	

(Street) 
SPARKS	MD	21152	

(City)	(State)	(Zip)	
	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 
MCCORMICK & CO INC [ MKC ] 	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer 
(Check all applicable) 
X	Director		10% Owner	
	Officer (give title below)		Other (specify below)	

	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
10/21/2005 		
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) 
X	Form filed by One Reporting Person	
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person	
	
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned	
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 	4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 	5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) 	
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price				
Common Stock - Voting								1,044	D		
Common Stock - Voting	10/21/2005		J(1) 	V	9.809	A	$30.43 	1,875.501	I	Deferred Compensation Plan	
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) 	
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 	5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 	6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)	7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 	8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) 	
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares					
Explanation of Responses:	
1. Shares acquired pursuant to the McCormick Dividend Reinvestment in the McCormick Deferred Compensation Plan.	
Remarks:	
	
	Sonia Cudd, Attorney-in-fact	11/21/2005	
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date	
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints

each of Robert W. Skelton, W. Geoffrey Carpenter and Sonia Cudd, the

undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact:

(1) to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's

capacity as an officer and/or director of McCormick & Company, Incorporated (the

"Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities

Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules thereunder, and Form 144 in accordance with

the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933;

(2) to do and perform such acts for and on behalf of the undersigned as may be

necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, and

Form 144, and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and

Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) to take such other actions as such attorney-in-fact, on advice of counsel,

may deem to be of benefit to, in the best interests of, or legally required by,

the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such

attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney

shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such

attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and

authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,

necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers

herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or

could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,

hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such

attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be

done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein

granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in

serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,

nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply

with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the undersigned's

responsibilities to comply with the Securities Act of 1933.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the

undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5, and/or Form 144,

with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities

issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed

writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 25th  day of October, 2005.

/s/ Margaret M.V. Preston