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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Deerfield, (Lewis & Horn, superintendents,) 

 Marcy, (Wilcox,) 



do (Tanner, Wood & Ashlj,) 

 Kirkland, (Blackstone,) 

 Hampton, (Williams, Adams & Derry,) 

 Lowell, (H. S. Rose,) 

 Remsen, (W. Mitchell,) 



do (D. Thomas,) 

 Holland Patent, (T. Pierce,) 

 Steuben, (W. Brooks,) 

 Floyd, (J. Davis,) . 

 Vernon, (Clark,) 

 Boonville, (Jackson,) 

 Stittville, (J. W. Rathbone,) 

 South Trenton, (Whi taker & Curry,) 

 Whitestown, (Williams & Smith,) . 



Besides the above, all of which are in Oneida county, five are in 

 operation in the adjoining county (Herkimer) — all established the 

 present year. Mr. Frazee, who last year carried on the one men- 

 tioned in the above list as Crosby & Huntington's, last spring 

 started one in Cortland county intended for fifteen hundred cows, 

 and establishments upon the same plan are known to have been 

 started in other States during the present year. 



Thus it will be seen that a radical change in the system of 

 cheese manufacture has been extensively introduced, and is making 

 rapid progress. The advantages of the new system and an ac- 

 count of its details are very ably and fairly stated by X. A. Wil- 

 lard, Esq., of Little Falls, New York, in a paper on "The Associ- 

 ated Dairies and Cheese Manufactories of New York," written for 

 the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 

 proof sheets of which he has sent me. Mr. Willard, who is well 

 known as one of the most intelligent and successful dairymen of 

 Herkimer countj'^, was so kind as to accompany me in visiting 

 several of these establishments, and I am happy to acknowledge 

 my indebtedness to liim for valuable assistance in studying their 

 details and operation, and for numex'ous other courteous attentions, 

 as well as for the extensive quotations from his paper, which we 

 give below. Mr. Willard says : 



" The advantages claimed for the factory system are superior 



