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LeoBardsvillCj Madison county, N. Y., known as the excelsior 

 churn. It was entered in class No. 4. From the examination the 

 committee gave it, they are disposed to call the favorable atten- 

 tion of the Society to this churn, but fearing that they may usurp the 

 prerogatives of some other committee to whom the examination 

 of this article properly belongs, and where there is competition, 

 they will refrain from expressing their opinion as to a premium. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



F. B. TAYLOR, 

 F. A. STEBBINS, 

 A. WAGER. 



Sept. 9th, 1852. 



The following described machine was on exhibition, and 

 deemed worthy of special notice, and the Society's Diploma 

 awarded by tlie Executive Committee. Cochrane's machine for 

 crushing, grinding and pulverising. E. & J. Bussing & Co, 32 

 Clifl-street, New -York. 



THE DAIRY— Butter. 



The exhibition of butter was quite extensive, and much of it 

 of a character to sustain the high reputation which the butter of 

 central New-York has attained in our country. It is a matter of 

 regret, that all the dairymen in the State do not give that atten- 

 tion and care to the preparation of their butter whicli is shown 

 by the successful exhibitors at the present fair. 



The Society have felt a deep interest in the subject of proper 

 dairy salt for the manufacture of butter, and have required of 

 exhibitors to state the kind of salt used. Most of the competi- 

 tors have complied with this requisition, and from their state- 

 ments it appears that six use our own salt, manufactured at our 

 salt works in Onondaga, and thirteen use Liverpool, Turks 

 Island, or the Pacitic retined salt. Of the nine persons who re- 

 ceived the premiums on butter, four used our own salt and live 

 foreign salt. This is evidence of the purity of our own salt, and 

 whatever prejudice may exist among purchasers as to the quality 

 of butter made from our own salt, the award of the very intelli- 

 gent committee who passed upon the samples otfered, some of 

 whom are engaged largely in the purcluise and sa'e of butter in 



