162 • CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



We pressed tbe stalks through a mill used by the grocers for 

 grinding sugar. The process was of course, slow, but we succeeded 

 very well in getting enough to make about two gallons of syrup, of 

 the consistency of ordinary molasses ; ten gallons of the expressed 

 juice yielding one of the syrup. 



It was boiled down in brass and iron kettles over a common cook- 

 ing-stove. I added a little lime to correct the natural acidity of the 

 juice, and the white of eggs to clarify. Besides this it was strained 

 repeatedly, after being boiled down, through coarse towelling, which 

 arrested some remaining particles of vegetable fibre and other impuri- 

 ties, and left it as it now is. 



You perceive that I have no means now of estimating the produce 

 per acre, nor the cost of manufacture. My imjvession is, that it 

 may be made to pay expenses, by cultivating in large field^ and 

 manufacturing with the proper machinery. But as z. fodder^ we 

 judge it superior to any thing else that can be raised on the same 

 ground, at the same expense. 



The seed formed, but did not quite ripen. 



Yours very truly, 



E. P. Weston. 



Dr. James R. Lunt, Westbrook, 2d best do. 



Best specimen of honey, to Augustus Mosher, Gorbam. 



Butter and Cheese. 



Best butter, Mrs. Lyman B. Chipman, Raymond, 1st premium. 

 Second best do., Mrs. Chas. Moulton, Gorham. 

 Best cheese, Joseph Porter, Freeport, 1st premium. 

 Second best do., S. F. Perley, Naples. 



Manufactures, Implements, &c. 



J. E. Robinson, Portland, exhibited two corn-shellers, a cheese 

 press, two sausage-cutters of an improved kind, a sausage-filler, two 

 dozen axes, one case scythes of superior workmanship and finish 

 from the North Wayne Scythe Company, two hay-cutters — one 



