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Sumner Lcacli of Warren, has a dairy of five coavs, of the 

 common native breed, which he keeps on hay in the winter, with 

 meal at and near calving time. He regards a pasture abound- 

 ing in white clover or honey suckle as the best to make cows 

 yield milk. Sets the milk in a cellar milk room, and skims the 

 second or third day as the case may be. The butter milk is 

 removed by washing and working. In seasoning butter he uses 

 salt alone. His cows yield from seven to eight pounds each, 

 per week. In making cheese, he makes a curd at every milk- 

 ing and unites two curds in one cheese. Press two days at 

 least, sometimes three. When taken from the press, sew a 

 bandage loosely around it, to prevent its spreading. Turn and 

 grease, daily. Makes about two pounds of cheese per cow per 

 day. 



Fruits. 



John Andrews presented a specimen of what he calls winter 

 Greenings, from trees twenty-five to thirty years of age, 

 grafted' on native apple stocks, near the ground, in the nursery. 

 Soil " from one to two feet deep, high, sandy and gravelly. My 

 orchard consists of one hundred and fifty trees. I cultivate 

 once in two or three years; keep the roots free from weeds; 

 use chip dirt and lime, and carefully pick all wormy apples from 

 the orchard. In the winter I keep the apples in Hour barrels ; 

 those for sale in a shed, and those for winter are all put directly 

 into a cool part of the cellar." 



John Currier presented for preiftium an assortment of apples, 

 pears, plums and grapes. Of apples, he had above fifty varie- 

 ties. The apples were grown on trees from fifteen to twenty 

 years of age. The others are about ten years old. The ap- 

 ples and plums were grafted on seedling free stocks, and the 

 pears on Auger's quince and mountain ash. The quince stocks 

 were grafted at the ground and the mountain ash in the tops, 

 as they answer no purpose when grafted at the ground. The 

 soil is a loam, from twelve to fifteen inches deep, with some 

 gravel, underlaid by a ledge. The soil near the trees has been 

 kept light, moist and free from grass, by hoeing and mulching. 



