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other purposes, will be^ the means of her being rivalled in her 

 merited reputation for fine cheese. 



Dairymen of Herkimer county, will you give heed in due time 

 to save yourselves from being slaves to an unprofitable business 

 by manufacturing a poor quality of cheese when a good quality 

 can be made as cheap. In view of the vast increase of cheese 

 making in other counties and other States, it behooves us to im- 

 prove the quality of our cheese to keep good our farmer reputa- 

 tion in market, and to increase a demand proportionate to in- 

 crease of product. Let us try. 



A. L. FISH, 

 ANSON RIDER, 

 WM. STEWART, 



Committee, 



Address of the President to the Judges. 



My object in addressing a few words to you on this occasion, 

 before entering upon your respective duties, is to call your atten- 

 tion to the necessity of adopting such a rule of action, as will 

 enable each class of judges to present to the society a formal re- 

 port, for publication in the journal of the society, as the result of 

 their observations, and careful examination of all the articles and 

 animals exhibited for inspection, with such details and suggestions 

 as will, when published and spread abroad, excite new reflections 

 by those who are interested in productive labor, and thus open 

 the door to new and important improvements. 



Strict conformity to such a rule seems to me to be indispensable 

 to the best interests of the society. 



It is to be regretted that we have not at our former fairs, been 

 able to collect such facts from the experience of successful com- 

 petitors, and record them in the journal of the society, as would 

 now show us by referring to them, what improvement has been 

 made, and what is the cause. It would be gratifying indeed to 

 look back through the records of the society, and see what the 

 particular merits of the articles and animals for which premiums 

 have been awarded, consisted in ; to see what was the breed and 

 live weight of animals at a certain age, and the particular manner 



