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years, it was sold in the market. This neglect of Mr. Mann to 

 keep an account is the more to be regretted, inasmuch as the 

 trial, so far as he proceeded, shows a better result than tliat of 

 either other competitor. It would have been important also, 

 upon another point of inquiry, how far the expense of high 

 keeping found a corresponding recompense in the greater pro- 

 ductiveness of milk made into butter or cheese, Mr. Mann 

 having fed his stock far more richly, as will be seen by his state- 

 ment, than any other competitor. 



For a like reason of non-compliance with the rules, and in 

 much more considerable and material respects, the claims of 

 Mr. Watson must have been excluded from competition for the 

 premiums. He had rendered no account of the product of his 

 cows previous to June, 185G, altogether omitting in his state- 

 ment their yield for any part of the preceding six months of the 

 period of trial. His cows were not seen in the pens, and it was 

 understood that he withdrew from the competition. 



The claims to premiums in Class No. 1 are thus reduced to 

 three competitors, and the committee find, upon examination 

 and comparison of results, that between them, the cows of Mr. 

 Ellsworth were altogether the most productive. By his state- 

 ment, it appears that he manufactured from the milk of his six 

 cows, during the whole period of trial, 772 lbs. of butter, and 

 1,251 1 lbs. of cheese. Charging the butter at SO cents per lb., 

 would give $231.60 ; and the cheese at 10 cents per lb.,.fl25.17 

 — making an aggregate value of $356.77. Or estimating the 

 produce of milk in butter as equal in quantity to three times 

 the same weight in cheese, adding to this the quantity of cheese 

 actually made, and so stating the account, would give an equiv- 

 alent to 356 lbs. of cheese, and the same pecuniary result. 

 This sum, as will be perceived by tables which the committee 

 have prepared to accompany this report, exceeds, by more than 

 fifty dollars, the value of the product of any other competitor. 

 Added to this, Mr. Ellsworth gives an account of 540^ lbs. of 

 skim-milk cheese, manufactured during the same period, which 

 the committee have not taken into the estimate, as it may fairly 

 be offset against the whey or buttermilk of other competitors, of 

 which no account is required. 



As between Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Robinson, one of his com- 

 petitors, it should be remarked, that the yield of milk by the 



