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Best horse power, on railroad or endless chain principle ; W. D. Bacon, 

 Waukesha. Bronze medal. 



Best corn sheller, hand power ; A. P. Dickey, Racine. Transactions. 



Best corn sheller, horse power ; Thompson Littell, Milwaukee. Ameri- 

 can Muck Book. 



Best seed planter, for hand or horse power, for hills or drills; Thompson 

 Littell, Milwaukee. Bronze Medal. 



Best thresher, to be used with horse or steam power ; Marvin Hughes, 

 Kenosha. Bronze Medal. 



Atkins' Automaton Reaper and Raker ; John S. Wright, Chicago. 

 Diploma. 



Best and most numerous collection of agricultural implements ; Thomp- 

 son Littell, Milwaukee. Bronze Medal. 



Best and most numerous collection of agricultural implements manufac- 

 tured in the State of W'isconsin, by or under the superintendence of the 

 exhibitor, materials, workmanship, utility, durability and prices, all 

 considered ; Richard E. Ela, Rochester. Silver Medal. 



DAIRY.— Xo. OF ExTEiES, 21. 



Judges. — H. L, Palmer, Milwaukee ; David Merrill, Milwaukee ; 



E. C. Sage, W^auwatosa. 



Best fifty pounds of butter ; Mrs. E. W. Edgerton, Summit. Diploma. 



" This butter was made in September, from a dairy of eight cows, be- 

 ing a cross of Durham with the native. The milk is set in eight quart 

 tin pans, and left to stand twenty four hours before skimming, except in 

 hot weather, when the milk would sour sooner. The churning is done 

 three times a week, in a common stone churn. Two ounces of common 

 salt are added for each pound of butter, and subsequently it is worked 

 twice, with a wooden ladle — once at the time of salting, and the second 

 time twenty four hours thereafter. The butter is worked as little as pos- 

 sible and get out the butter-milk. We use no saltpetre, or any other 

 substance. We make very little winter butter, usually scald the new 

 milk, and set it in a room where it will not freeze for twelve hours. The 



further process is the same as above. 



Mrs. E. W. Edgerton." 



