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turnip ; 1 feed many of these with the tops, in October. I next 

 use the carrots, keeping the ruta baga until spring, as I think it 

 is better when it begins to soften a Httle. For making milk, I 

 think that hay should be cut earlier than it should be when fed 

 to other stock. 



Daxvers, September 30, 1856. 



WORCESTER. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Butter. — Tlie committee stand upon the platform of princi- 

 ples enunciated in their last annual report, without inserting 

 any new planks therein. Butter, as one of the indispensable 

 institutions of American society is not to be neglected or over- 

 looked. Butter, as the connecting link between the present and 

 the past, deserves our respect. Butter, as a discipline, is to a 

 farmer boy at least a subject of remembrance. Good butter is as 

 much a blessing as ever, while poor butter is still an unmitigated 

 curse. Now the essentials to making good butter, the mode of 

 doing it, and the various matters and things relating thereto, 

 are they not written in the report of your committee for the 

 year 1855 ? 



A suggestion was made by the ladies upon the committee, 

 that the present mode of proceeding in the matter of butter, 

 does not produce the excellence in the article whicli is desirable. 

 The remedy suggested, is, that premiums should be offered of 

 sufficient amount to induce the competitors to keep their butter 

 long enougli to enable time to apply to it its unmistakable test, 

 and thus determine beyond all doubt the question of excellence 

 of the article. 



The suggestion is made for the consideration of the society, 

 with the fervent wish on the part of the committee, that some 

 course, if possible, should be devised to relieve a suffering com- 

 munity from a bitter, rancid, disagreeable, disgusting, or 

 indigestible compound, which is to all intents and purposes a 

 nuisance of the vilest kind. 



Pharaoh, with all his ingenuity, never invented for the 



