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and laid with increased weight under the press, letting it remain 

 three or four hours at a time in the press, and at each shifting 

 get a clean, dry cloth. When ultimately taken from the press, 

 the cheeses are generally exposed for about a week to a consid- 

 erable degree of drought, turned over every twenty -four hours, 

 and rubbed with a dry cloth. They are then removed to the 

 store-room, which should be in cool exposure, between damp 

 and dry, without the sun being allowed to shine on them, or a 

 great amount of air admitted. This gradual mode of ripening 

 being found essential to prevent fermenting and swelling of the 

 cheese, and cracking of the rind. Boxes, made to fit the cheese, 

 is the most desirable package in which to ship them to market. 



Huntington Beothees & Yogell, 

 Butter and Cheese Dealers, and General Commission Merchants, 



73 Kinzle St., Chicago, 111. 



REPORT OF BLOOD CATTLE. 



Dear Sir : — Yours of the 14th inst., requesting a more com- 

 plete report upon the blooded stock exhibited at the late State 

 Fair is received, which I will endeavor to comply with ; pre- 

 mising that, for this report the writer alone is responsible ; as, 

 unfortunately, we (the committee on thorough-bred cattle) differ- 

 ed so widely in our indi^ddual opinions, that many of the pre- 

 miums awarded, were either the result of a compromise, or, the 

 decision of a majority, contrary to the judgment of the minority. 



It was gratifying to observe that the mass of exhibitors relied 

 for success more upon the intrinsic merits of their several ani- 

 mals, than upon high feeding ; a compliment to the judgment 

 of the committee which was — or, at any rate, ought to have 

 been — properly appreciated. To this, however, there was a few 

 exceptions — a few animals to which the following "instructions 



