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preparations for making secured, there should be no inferior article, and 

 if there is, the fault must rest with the dairyman or maid. 



The samples of butter and cheese on exhibition at this annual fair 

 show this — the principal cause of poor butter may be attributed to the 

 following errors: 1st, want of a proper place, cool and airy, to keep the 

 milk ; 2d, want of neatness throughout the entire dairy ; 3d, want of 

 attention ; 4th, suffering the milk to stand too long before it is skimmed ; 

 5th, cream not kept sufficiently cool, and standing too long before it is 

 churned, making the butter soft, sour and worthless. 



There were submitted for premiums some six or sevoa applications 

 for butter, and five or six for cheese. The manufacturers of both the 

 butter and cheese were unknown to the committee. The different spec- 

 imens were numbered, and the premiums awarded on the numbers. 

 The names of the persons to whom the premiums were awarded were 

 taken from the Secretary's book, after the committee had decided. 



The committee were unanimous in pronouncing the best specimen of 

 butter offered, and it was of the very best quality, to No. 155, (present- 

 ed by Mrs. L. Sackett, of Raisinville,) and award to it the first pre- 

 mium of - - --- — $3 00 



2d best. No. 1 1 6, Mrs. D. E. Morris, Raisinville, 2 00 



3d best, No. 172, Mrs. P. Loose, Ida, 1 75 



4th best, No. 87, Mrs. J. L. Montgomery, Ida, 1 50 



5th best, No. 83, Mrs. J. Johnson, Ida, 1 25 



The fault with No. 83 was, it had too much salt. No. 171 was a 

 little rancid. No. 179 was sticky; the cream was left too long before 

 it was churned. 



Of the cheese, the committee are of the opinion that there was none 

 which should be entitled to the premium »s/irst quality cheese. They 

 award the following premiums : 



Best, No. 1 38, Mrs. M. Hurd, Frenchtown, $2 00 



2d best, No. 82, Mrs. J. Johnson, Ida, 1 25 



Best sage cheesp, Mrs. M. Hurd, 1 75 



There were but two specimens of honey presented, neither of which, 

 in the judgment of the committee, was first rate, but they award to 

 No. 184, to W. H. Rogers, a premium of $1. 



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