632 



Best 2 loaves wheaten household bread, Charles Barclay, Grand 



Rapids, $0 50 



2d best 2 loaves wheaten household bread, 0. Van Buren, Grand 



Rapids, 25 



Best ten pounds honey, in box, S. S. Bailey, Paris, 75 



Best barrel flour, (Soules wheat,) Chapin & Tolford, Flat River, 75 



2d best " W. P. Collins, Grand Rapids, No Premium. 



Best beehive for general use, (Longstrath's patent,) D. B. Mar- 



tindale. Grand Rapids, 60 



The committee would state that they found many other samples of 

 butter 80 nearly equal that it was difiicult to decide. The sample 

 made in June retained the sweet, fresh flavor of new butter so well that 

 the committee take the liberty of copying the recipe : " skim sweet if 

 possible, keep the cream in tin pans well stirred, churn at from 60 ° 

 to 63 ° , rinse the buttermilk out and work out the water well, then add 

 one ounce salt to the pound, set away in the cellar a few hours, then 

 work and add one ounce of loaf sugar to every ten pounds." 



Wheaten household bread was the only kind offered. Each sample 

 was sweet and light enough to deserve the first premium. Only one 

 box of honey was entered in time. There were two other samples that 

 could not be beat. Specimens of bakers' bread and crackers were ex- 

 hibited by Fulton & Co., not entered for a premium. 



GEO. KENDALL, 

 MRS. CICERO POTTER, 



Committee. 



DOMESTIC ARTS, &C. 



Best piece rag carpet, George Antrim, Grand Rapids, |1 00 



Best patch work quilt, Mrs. G. C. Nelson, " 50 



Best pair ladies' cotton hose, Mrs. D. S. Wooster, Flat River, . . 25 

 Best specimen knitting, " " - - 50 



Best teilor work by a f3male, " "..100 



The committee, while they regret that there was not a more full ex- 

 hibition of articles in this department, cannot forbear expressing their 

 unqualified praise of the various specimens of rag carpet exhibited by 



