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very steady and constant, and great reward is extended to those 

 who become adepts in all the arts connected with the Dairy. 



The farmer of modern times is required to study other things 

 beside the mere manipulations of the farm ; he must know the 

 phase of the markets as much as any trader or merchant, and 

 he who is indifferent and uniri quiring in this respect is ousted, 

 as far as markets are concerned, and his neighbor, who is more 

 active and business-like, supersedes him. 



There is room for a much greater extension of this depart- 

 ment of husbandry in our own county. It appears from the 

 papers submitted to the committee, that a variety of methods 

 were adopted in the making of the butter offered for premiums ; 

 and no less various, certainly, were the results attained. 



There can be no question that the expression of the butter- 

 milk is a very important part of the process, and upon the 

 thoroughness with which this is accomplished depends in a great 

 measure the quality of the butter. This should be done at 

 once, if possible, and as soon as may be, instead of allowing 

 the butter to remain over night with only a washing with cold 

 water, and a whole day longer, before the last effort is made to 

 express the milk, as was one of the methods adopted. It was 

 the opinion of the committee that the general quality of the 

 butter was not remarkably fine, which is not to be wondered at 

 when complaints have arisen on all sides during the summer 

 months that unusual precautions were necessary to obtain 



superior butter. 



G. P. Sargent, Chairman. 



WORCESTER WEST. 



From the Report of the Committee on Cheese. 



The production of cheese is not only an agricultural but a 

 manufacturing operation requiring great skill and nice atten- 

 tion to all its details to insure success ; and upon it depends 

 the results of much of our farm labor. This is the laboring 

 point ; a failure here is disaster to the whole establishment. 

 The toil of the hay field and the various labor of the farm must 

 lose its reward or be but scantily remunerated, if the operations 

 in the cheese tub are not performed with skill and intelligence. 



The reputation of this part of the country for the manufac- 

 ture of cheese is a great public interest. New Braintree and 



