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Dairy. 



E. Maxinij of Paris, made 800 lbs. cheese, and 400 lbs. of butter, 

 the past summer, from four cows and two 2 years old heifers — grade 

 Durhams. His June butter he puts down in firkins lined with birch 

 bark. 



Fruit. 



Thomas H. Brown exhibited about forty varieties of apples, nine 

 of pears, three of grapes, and other fruits. The pears included 

 Doyenne d' Ete, Beurre Diel, Beurre d' Amalis, Belle Lucrative, 

 Duchess de Angouleme, &c., &c. The grapes were stated to be 

 well ripened in the open air, and included Concord and Isabella. 



Crops. 



For best crop of 'wheat, to A. L. Burbank, of Bethel, 29| bushels 

 per acre, Canada wheat. Land in corn the two previous years, and 

 well mauured. 



For second best, to John Parsons, of Paris, for 46^- bushels on 

 four square rods less than two acres. Land in oats in 1858, and in 

 corn in 1859. Red Turkey wheat, bearded. 



To Gilman Chapman, Bethel, for best barley, 53 bushels per acre, 

 (42 lbs to the bushel.) Land, clayey interval; 20 loads of green 

 manure per acre. 



Potatoes. First premium to C. H. Durell, of Paris, for 197 

 bushels on one-half acre. Land in corn in 1858, and wheat in 1859. 

 The kind of seed not stated. 



Second premium to W. L. Stanton, of Oxford, 222 bushels per 

 acre, (white Lapland.) Land broken in September previous; a 

 little gypsum in the hill, and no other manure. 



Third premium to Ichabod M. Thomas, of Oxford, for 220 bushels 

 per acre. 



