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to breed their one dollar colts, not profiting by tlie opportunity .. 

 offered ihcm by these corapanies of a better animal, at the still 

 reasonable price of ten dollars ; this last season however, some 

 change has taken place for the better in this particular, and both 

 horses have been more used by those not belonging to the com- 

 panies. 



The show of Butter and Cheese, considering how thorougly a 

 dairy county this is, was compartively small, owing we presume as 

 far as this immediate vicinity is concerned, to the fact that, there 

 are a number of dairies whose products are known to be so uni- 

 formly excellent and so much on a par w^ith each other that it be- 

 comes, of necessity, more a matter of taste with the judges than a 

 discrimination as to excellence; under these circumstances, when 

 it is considered how few and how small are the premiums, it can 

 well bt^ understood why dairies whose excellence is well establish- 

 ed, should feel not only indiffeient but even indisposed to show. 

 Could the society afford to offer a premium of one hundred or 

 even fifty dollars for the best sample of butter opened and tested 

 after being six months in the keepincr of the committee^ I doubt not 

 it would call forth a strong competition amongst our best dairy- 

 men, and would elicit information relative to its manufacture 

 much more important than can now be obtained, where the dairy- 

 man's object and interest does not extend beyond putting his 

 butter, well conditioned, into market as early as possible afreritis 

 packed. How it may prove throughout the winter is not his affair, 

 but is nevertheless most important to the consumer. Any county 

 obtaining for its firkin butter the reputation of keeping sweet ' 

 and well throughout the whole winter, would have a great ad- 

 vantage in our markets, and we venture to suggest the subject as 

 worthy of attention by those who may hereafter arrange the so- 

 ciety's premiums. 



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In the evening the members of the county society and visitors 

 generally were invited by the local society to partake of a cold 

 collation at Mr. Yates' Hotel ; when after an hour or two, plea- 

 santly passed in discussing agricultural topics and interests, the 

 party partook of the supper which had been provided with the 

 liberality for which our host Mr. Yates is so deservedly known. 



