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The statements give an impression corresponcling with the remarks 

 of the Secretary as above given. 



Among the horses are noticed a pair of draft horses, shown by 

 George W. Severance, weighing twenty-three hundred pounds, and 

 also a pair weighing twenty-six hundred pounds, one of -which 

 hauled forty-eight hundred pounds on a dray, and the pair drew 

 five and one -half tons for several rods without trouble. 



Jacob Heath showed a full-blood Hereford bull, which he says he 

 finds of good disposition and docile, and gets large and handsome 

 stock. He also showed a bull half Devon and half Durham ; pre- 

 fers this cross for beauty, for size and for beef. 



The statements on premium butter show that the best exhibited 

 was made wilhont washing, (as is customary with most of our 

 butter-makers,) which injures the flavor. Mrs. B. Lovejoy's method 

 of preserving June butter, is as follows : 



" The butter on which I drew a premium was made in June, but 

 instead of packing it at once, I made a pickle of rock-salt, loaf 

 sugar and saltpetre ; made my butter into pound balls and kept it in 

 the pickle till September, when I took it from the pickle, removed 

 all moisture from it with the hand, and enclosed it in airtight stone 

 pots. I find this method the best for keeping butter so that it may 

 retain its original flavor and sweetness. 



Lincoln, Nov. 7, 1857. 



