620 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



differ — some fine tlieories, that are Id their details too expensive 

 or too fanciful to admit of their being carried into successful and 

 profitable practice — some improvements, so called, that are hardly 

 "worthy of encouragement 3 but in reference to the general utility 

 and immediate profit of dairying, combined of course with grain 

 raising, there is but one opinion among intelligent men. For 

 enriching and fertilizing the farm, it has all the advantages of 

 g'-owing stock, with the additional advantage of being more 

 immediately and surely profitable. Neither can there be any 

 question in reference to the utility and importance of getting up the 

 best attainable quality. It may be true that buyers do not sufli- 

 ciently discriminate, in point of price, between good and poor, 

 and that not unfrequently buyers are found who give an extreme 

 price for a poor article. But it may be well to remember that 

 the reputation of the good often sells the poor in the neighbor- 

 hood and that the competition and extra demand that furnish 

 buyers of a poor article at good prices tend directly and power- 

 fully to help the price of the whole, and that a prime dairy will 

 always sell at fair rates, and at a time when a decidedly poor one 

 is a drug at any price. 



This Society has done much toward improving the quality of 

 the butter and cheese in this county. We hope it may do more; 

 and we sincerely hope that we may have succeeded in impressing 

 upon the minds of our dairymen the fact, which some of them 

 seem to ignore, that our first class dairies have not yet reached 

 the best attainable quality — that they may be still further impro- 

 ved, both in majiufacture and in the care and attention with 

 which they are kept. 



The kitchen garden to which we award the first premium, though 

 small, we deem worthy of notice. We find it in a high state of 

 cultivation, well laid out, entirely free from weeds, and contain- 

 ing within a small space an ample variety of the common fruits 

 and vegetables of luxuriant growth; some of these were a^are, and 

 difficult of successful cultivation. It is located on what was once 

 a barren rock — nearly 1000 loads of dirt and compost having been 

 carted on to get the requisite depth of soil — every inch of space is 

 occupied and we venture the assertion that more is realized from this 

 small plot of ground, than is usually obtained from gardens of 

 twice or thrice its size. We noticed some attention to flowers, 



