MAINE STATE SOCIETY, 115 



DAIKY. 



The Committee on Dairy Products speak in higti terms of this 

 department of the exhibition. After announcing the awards, they 

 remark : 



"There were about forty entries of butter for premium; and 

 many specimens that did not receive a premium were of superior 

 quality, and the dairy women who presented them, are entitled to 

 much credit for their skill. 



Of cheese there were not so many entries. But your Committee 

 found it quite as difficult to determine, to their own satisfaction, the 

 relative merits of the various specimens which they examined ; and 

 they take pride in saying, that they were a better lot of cheese, 

 taken as a whole, than we have ever before examined. 



Of the butter and cheese, entered for a premium by girls under 

 sixteen years of age, your Committee cannot speak in terms of too 

 much praise. They were fully equal to any specimens offered by 

 their mothers ; and every article of butter and cheese entered bj 

 them for our inspection was truly worthy of a premium." 



Statements on Dairy Products. 



H. W. Nichols of Holden, who obtained the premium on greatest 

 amount of butter made in June, July and August, from one cow 

 states that she was a grade Durham, six years old, reared by him- 

 self and kept on hay and grass only, without provender — averages 

 eight quarts during the whole time in milk, and gave twenty-two 

 quarts per day through three months. The yield of butter was, 

 for the week ending June 8th, twelve pounds, four ounces ; June 

 15th, fourteen pounds ; 22d, sixteen pounds, one ounce ; 29th, 

 twelve pounds; July 6th, thirteen pounds, twelve ounces; 13th, 

 fifteen pounds, four ounces ; 20th, fourteen pounds, thirteen ounces; 

 26th, thirteen pounds, five ounces; August Ist^ ten pounds; 7th, 

 nine pounds, seven ounces; 13th, eight pounds; 20th, ten pounds, 

 three ounces; 28th, twelve pounds, twelve ounces — in all one hun- 

 dred and sixty-two pounds, three ounces — averaging one and three- 

 fourths pounds per day. 



The cow calved May 13th ; calf weighed one hundred and ten 

 pounds ; and up to June 1st made twenty-three pounds, twelve 

 ounces butter. 



