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In the article of cheese, none but that of the first quality can be 

 sold for exportation ; all of an inferior grade is absolutely excluded 

 from 2,'oing into the foreign market. Now all that will answer for ex- 

 portation, brings from one to two cents per pound morethan amiddling 

 or tolerably fair article. This is no small percentage, and realizes, 

 to those who furnish the prime article, a very large profit. This will 

 be seen when we consider the large amount annually exported. It is 

 estimated that during the last year 1,400,000 lbs. of cheese was ex- 

 ported from the United States to Liverpool ; so that to those who fur- 

 nished the prime article, there was a clear gain over those who fur- 

 nished the same quantity of inferior order, of $140,000 or $280,000 

 — no small reward for their superior care and skill in the production 

 of the article. 



Again, in the article of butter, the difference is still greater. I n 

 the New-York market butter is separated into three parcels, respec- 

 tively denominated poor^ middling and prime. So late as last week 

 there was a difference in the city of 50 per cent — every pound of 

 prime bringing 18 cents. Surely these facts, showing the bare profit 

 in the market of a first rate over a second rate or inferior article, can- 

 not be without their effect in stimulating our dairymen to increased 

 care and skill in the manufacture of these important, nay indispensi- 

 ble articles in their line of business. When we consider the great 

 facilities which our county furnishes for carrying on the dairy busi- 

 ness, anil the ability of those thus engaged to reach any degree of 

 perfection of which the business is susceptible, we desire to place be- 

 fore their minds every consideration likely to stimulate their zeal and 

 effort. 



CLINTON COUNTY, 



Extract from the report of Clinton County Agricultural Society, 

 relative to Butter : 



E. benedict's statement. 



Gentlemen : — I offer for premium, 30 pounds of butter, packed in 

 a stone jar ; it was made between the 28th of May and the 20th of 

 June ; milking done about 5 o'clock in the morning and 7 in the 

 evening ; milk strained into tin pans and set in cool cellar ; skimmed 

 as soon as the milk becomes thick ; cream kept in stone jars open ; 

 churning done from two to three times per week, in the morning ; 

 milk worked from the butter with a ladle ; (no water in this case used ;) 

 salted with Liverpool salt, to suit the taste. I keep nine cows on my 

 farm, all of the native breed, give them plenty of hay in winter, and 

 pasture in summer, and salt frequently. 



EDWIN BENEDICT. 



Plattshurgh,Seipi.2'7, 1844. 



