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children of Israel a more intolerable infliction than he could 

 have done, if he had imposed upon them the penalty of being 

 obliged to eat poor butter. 



Henry Chapin, Chairman. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Butter. — The art of making good butter comes down to us 

 through the venerable lapse of ages, long since passed, bearing 

 upon its brow alike the marks of time and of vernal freshness 

 and purity. 



So important ha*s this product of our farms become, that she 

 who successfully vies with her sister dairy-women in producing 

 the purest, sweetest, and most palatable article, can command 

 for it her own price, and stand forth as the undisputed sovereign 

 of the product of her skill and industry, without a rival. Such 

 a position of celebrity, however, is occupied but by the few, 

 while the mass plod on in the old beaten track, with but little, 

 seemingly, to care or hope for. 



The demand for good butter, both at home and abroad, is 

 rapidly increasing, and should stimulate our farmers, not only, 

 to increase its supply, but so far as possible, improve its quality. 



Most of the specimens contributed for the inspection of your 

 committee, were of superior quality, and serve as significant 

 evidences of what our fair dairy-women can do in this section 

 of old Worcester county. 



J. S. Brown, Chairman. 



WORCESTER WEST. 



Statement of A. H. Fay. 



Butter. — My manner of making butter is to set the milk in 



tin pans, about half full, raised from the shelf on two narrow 



sticks, and let it stand not over four meals. The cream should 



be taken from the milk while sweet, and stand not over three 



