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of a common tea-cup full to 16 pounds of cheese; after the curd is 

 broken up fine in a machine with two cylinders, set with small wire 

 teeth, the salt is put in, and the whole well stirred and mixed. 



The rennet when taken from the calf is turned inside out, and 

 stripped clean with dry hands, no water being used; after laying in 

 salt three days, it is turned, stretched on sticks and dried. When 

 wanted for use, one rennet is soaked in two quarts of warm water, 

 and one tea-cup full used for one cheese, weighing as these do, 115 

 and 116 pounds. The cheese is pressed in " Hales' Patent Self- Act- 

 ing Lever Press," 24 hours, and turned once in the time. 



From the press the cheese goes on to the tables; is colored with 

 annatto, and rubbed over with butter made from cream taken from the 

 whey. Bandages are put on the first day; the cheese turned, rubbed 

 and greased at least twice a week, and through the early part and 

 warm season, nearly every day; much depends upon the faithful per- 

 formance of this part of the treatment. 



The cows are always milked in the stanchels, and the milk con- 

 ducted from the barn to the cheese room, a distance of 118 feet, in 

 three-fourths of an inch lead pipe. The advantages gained by this 

 are: keeping the milk from the impurities unavoidable from milking 

 out in rainy weather, and in muddy and filthy yards; and the greater 

 comfort in milking. 



REPORT ON MAPLE SUGAR. 



[Committee : — Messrs. L. Bronk, H. Baldwin, P. N. Rust and J. C. Ma- 

 ther.] 



The committee on Maple Sugar respectfully report, that they have 

 endeavored faithfully to discharge the duties assigned them. There 

 were seven samples presented to them for their consideration, be- 

 tween some of which it was somewhat difficult to discriminate, as they 

 approached each other very nearly both in flavor and color. They 

 award the first premium of $15, to Mr. B. Gauss, jr. of East Bloom- 

 field. This is a very splendid specimen of maple sugar, particularly 

 on account of its whiteness, approaching very nearly to the best refi- 

 ned loaf sugar. Ypur committee award the second premium of $10, 

 to Mr. W. E. White of Walton. They award the third premium of 

 $5, to Mr. E. Bigelowof Sangersfield. Your committee remark that 

 they consider this a very handsome specimen of maple sugar; and al- 

 thoucrh not as white as those to which allusion has been made, is fully 

 equal, if not superior, to them in point of flavor. They award the 

 diploma to C. Hepinstall of Albany. The specimens exhibited by 

 Mr. O. F. Marshall of Wheeler, and Mr. Woodworth of Watertown, 

 the committee consider as deserving of much praise. 



Mr. Gauss' Statement. — Benjamin Gauss, jr. manufactures from 

 six to eight hundred pounds of maple sugar a year; taps about three 

 hundred trees; boils in a sheet iron pan set upon an arch. When the 



