172 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY. 



Institute at Poland. 



By invitation of Lake Grange, an Institute was lield at West Poland 

 December 8. This was one of the most enthusiastic gatherings met 

 with for the 3'ear. Hon. Luther Perkins welcomed the Board in a 

 fitting manner. Free entertainment to the members and to all in 

 attendance from a distance was furnished. No report of the 

 exercises is given. 



A second Institute for the count}' was held at Turner Center, 

 Grange Hall, December 28th. The attendance was all that could 

 be accommodated in the hall. Free entertainment to all from a 

 distance was furnished. A good choir added pleasure to the 

 exercises. 



' FINE POINTS IN CHEESE MAKING. 

 By Francis Baknes, Houltou. 



The renewal of interest in associated dairying among our farmers 

 is a gratifying indication of agricultural advancement in our State ; 

 for, despite all the failures of a score of years ago, the fact grows 

 more and more patent that through stock husbandry and the making 

 of butter and cheese, as specialties, lies the road to thrift and com- 

 petency. 



Our country has now entered upon that period in its growth in 

 which, with the gradual subsidence of the merely adventurous spirit 

 continually seeking new conquests beyond, the regular industrial 

 pursuits of a great people are crystallizing around their appropriate 

 centres, or are found stretching across the continent in wide, and 

 well defined longitudinal belts. 



The manufacturing, raining and commercial industries have 

 grouped themselves in their peculiar and fitting localities, while 

 through and around all, lies the groat agricultural interest, which 

 is in truth fundamental as to all the others. It needs, however, 

 indisputably, the greatest diversification of employments among 

 the people to furnish scope for its widest possibilities. Without 

 a ready class of consumers right among the farmers, agricultural 

 progress is slow, and the margin of profit precarious. Across the 



