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of butter, lie makes one pound of butter per day to cacli co^, 

 from June to October. Received the first premium. 



William White obtained the third premium on butter and 

 cheese. He has a dairy of six cows, which are a cross of the 

 Durhams aud Devons; feeds with hay, corn-fodder, and occa- 

 sionally with roots, in winter, and on grass alone in summer. 

 High land pasture lie considers best, and clover the best kind 

 of grass. lie churns the strippings with the cream, and at a 

 temperature as near that of milk when drawn from the cow as 

 may be ; lays down his butter in pickle, and makes one hundred 

 pounds per cow during the season. 



In making cheese, he strains the milk into the tub, adds the 

 rennet, aud in two hours puts the curd to draining, and then 

 puts it to press immediatcl}"^ after cutting fine and seasoning 

 it with salt. After being taken from the press, turned and 

 dressed daily till it is thoroughly seasoned. His daughter, 

 sixteen years old, obtained a first prennum on butter. 



Live Stock. 



Waterman Tibbets obtained first premium on a cow which 

 averages twenty quarts per day during June and July; com- 

 mends her both as a stock and dairy animal. 



Isaac P. Tibbets obtained premium on a horse, a bull, three 

 cows, and a yearling heifer. The horse, a Messenger ; the bull, 

 a native; the cows, one native, and two grade Durhams; and 

 the heifer a grade Durham. He raised the heifer himself. She 

 was taken from the cow when two weeks old and taught to 

 drink. The cows unite the qualities of breeders and milkers ; 

 yield thirteen quarts of milk each per day during the months 

 of June and July ; feeds on rough fodder in early winter, but 

 after the first of January, on good English hay, and waters them 

 in the yard twice a day. To this is added one quart of meal 

 per day, and potatoes once a week. 



D. Fulton presented a yoke of steers on which he obtained 

 the second premium ; a three years old colt, first premium ; fif- 

 teen cows, first premium; one sow, second premium; six half 

 Suffolk pigs, first premium. Steers were grade Durham, colt a 



