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woxild be shown that it was not a line fence, but was built for 

 himself. 



Question. Suppose the land on the other side of the fence passes 

 into another man's hands before any part is improved, ffom whom 

 should you recover ? 



Mr. Lebroke. If the land passes by a new deed, then you must 

 be sure, in order to hold the grantee, to have a written agreement 

 between you and the other part}^ and have it recorded by the town 

 clerk, or the fence viewer's decision must be recorded, and then 

 the other man would be held just the same as the original owner. 



Adjourned to evening. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The attendance at the evening session was large, the hall being 

 crowded, and marv ladies present. The first speaker of the even- 

 ing was Rev. Joux H. Gurney of Foxcroft, who delivered the 

 following address on 



Associated Dairying. 



Gentlemen of (he Board of. Agricullure, and Ladies and Gentlemen : 

 I propose to talk on just two things, Cheese and Cheese Factories. 

 I know of only two reasons why I was invited by your Secretary 

 to present this subject: first, that I am interested in the subject; 

 and secondly, that I have some slight knowledge of the workings 

 of the factory system. I have spent tlio past fourteen years of 

 my life in a region somewhat noted for the manufacture of cheese 

 of a superior quality. Worcester county cheese has sustained 

 somewhat the relation to Boston market that Orange county butter 

 has to the city of New York. The town where I resided, together 

 with two or three towns around it, gave this reputation to Wor- 

 cester county cheese. The farmers in that region have proved by 

 repeated experiments that no use of their land is so profitable on 

 the whole as for making cheese. They have tried butter ; they 

 have tried beef; they have tried stock raising; they have tried 

 sheep to some extent ; they have even had the temerity to try 

 horse rearing ; but they always come back to the one article of 

 cheese as the most profitable. Occasionally, either of these other 

 articles, for a short time, has brought in better returns in mere 

 cash, but invariably in the long run, they fall back on cheese as 

 the chief article of procfuction. Tliey are too far from the market 

 to sell their milk for city use, with the present communication ; 



