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Butter and Cheese. 



Wg found iipoQ the table, for examination, tvrent}' lots of 

 butter and eleven cheeses. 



Butter. One lot might have been nice and good, but was 

 injured.by too much sugar. Perhaps a little loaf sugar, finely pul- 

 verized, might be used to advantage, but in no great quantities 

 would we recommend it. Better with none than much. The 

 other nineteen lots were nice and good, and do honor, not only 

 to tlie makers, but to Androscoggm county. 



Cheese. They were all good and would rank A No 1 in any 

 market. And we would especially recommend some of the 

 Boston hotel keepers to call upon our butter and cheese makers 

 and contract for a supply without regard to prices, for we be- 

 lieve it will not only pay, but be very acceptable to the palates 

 of at least some of their occasional guests. 



John M. Frye. 



Iron Manufactures. 



V/e found entered for examination, two Portable Bakers, 

 made of galvanized iron; cost from $12 to $25, according to 

 size. We are informed that they will bake an ovenful of pies, 

 say from twelve to twenty, in a few minutes, with only four or 

 five pounds of hard wood: thus making a great saving of wood, 

 which in our Pine Tree State even, is getting to be a cash 

 article. They are so constructed as to retain all the heat and 

 send none into the room. 



Compost Manure. 

 In considering tlie subject of manure, we hardly know where 

 to begin or end. Manure is the Alpha and Omega of all suc- 

 cessful farming. But first, its definition. The word manure is 

 a general name given to any matter that fertilizes the land, or 

 furnishes nutriment to plants. It also denotes action, which is 

 also a very important thing in farming. 



