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into curd as soon as possible after it is milked. He '' allows 

 one tea-cupful of salt to twenty-five pounds of curd." 



Fruits. 



J. Leeman presented six specimens of apples, viz. : Somerset, 

 Porter, William's Favorite, Higlitop Sweeting, Orange Sweeting, 

 and Low Elder. His land is a sandy loam and a deep soil, and 

 has received no cultivation for several years past. He received 

 the first premium on summer apples, and the second premium 

 on winter apples. All the trees are grafts but one. (Which is 

 that ?) 



Phineas M. Jefferds obtained the first premium on winter 

 apples. He presented specimens of six varieties of apples — 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch, Ribston Pippin, Roxbury Russet, Bald- 

 win, Nodhead, and Ladies Sweet. The trees are between 

 thirty and forty years old, grafted in the top. The soil is deep 

 and rocky. All the cultivation it has had is to be pastured by 

 the hogs. 



S. J. Greely presented a loaf of brown bread, and received 

 the first premium. " Scald the Indian meal in the same quan- 

 tity of stewed pumpkin. When cool add two cups of butter- 

 milk to a tea-spoonful of saljBratus, one cup of molasses and a 

 little salt. Mix in two parts rye or barley meal, flour or coarse 

 ground wheat. Bake in a hot oven, six hours. 



Machinery and Implements. 

 Chandler, Brown & Co. of Foxcroft, presented a specimen of 

 plows, cultivators and farmer's boiler, manufactured by them- 

 selves, made from iron from the Katahdin iron works. The 

 boiler has been in use only one year, but the other implements 

 have been fully tested and their value demonstrated. They 

 received all the society's premiums on plows and cultivators, 

 and a gratuity on the boiler. [What is there peculiar about 

 this boiler ?] 



