74 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Question. When the cream is separated from the id ilk, 

 a few minutes after it is drawn from the cow, is it any purer 

 or freer from flavor than when it is allowed to remain in the 

 pan a day or two, and then skimmed in the old-fashioned 

 way? 



Mr. Burnett. I don't know. I think it is. Professor 

 Arnold of Syracuse said to me, " Why, Burnett, I believe 

 you could feed a cow on onions, and the centrifugal would 

 throw the odor ricrht out of the milk ! " 



[At this point a recess was taken, and the members of the 

 Board, with many others, on the invitation of Mr. Burnett, 

 visited Deerfoot Farm, where they were courteously shown 

 every department of the extensive and well-ordered estab- 

 lishment, and had an opportunity to witness the centrifugal 

 machine in operation.] 



On re-assembling at twelve o'clock, Mr. James S. Grin- 

 NELL of Greenfield said, — 



At this large and successful meeting of the Board, we 

 miss the genial face and friendly greeting of one of the 

 members of the Board, who was also one of the Committee 

 of Arrangements delegated from the South jMiddlesex Socie- 

 ty, who is now confined at his home by a serious, and, we 

 fear, dangerous illness. Successful as have been the efforts 

 of the other members of the committee, and these gentle- 

 men of Southborough, some of the members of the Board 

 have thought that it was proper, and that it would be kind 

 in us, to offer some expression of our feelings in regard to 

 our friend iNIr. Damon. I therefore have the honor to offer 

 the following vote : — 



'■^ Resolced, That wo, the members of the Massachusetts Board of 

 Agriculture, having to-day heard of the serious illness of Mr. Tiiomas 

 J. Damon, our colleague of this county, hereby direct the secretary of 

 the Board to convey to him this expression of our sympathy, and the 

 hope of his speedy restoration to health." 



Mr. J. B. Moore. I desire to express my sympathy with 

 this resolution. I have been a member of this Board some 

 time, and have been associated with ]\Ir. Damon in that rela- 

 tion ; and I have also known him for a long term of years, 

 and have known him as one of the best practical farmers of 

 INIiddlesex County. I have known him as a useful member 

 of the Board, and I am very glad to support the resolution 



