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or one-quarter pound cakes. The price obtained is fifty-five 

 cents by the year, and during the summer forty pounds per 

 week are engaged, and thirty pounds per week in the winter. 

 The butter is never touched with the hands ; it is some- 

 times salted in the churn, but always worked under a lever 

 on a hardwood table, set so inclined as to allow the milk 

 and brine to run off freely. Temperature at churning from 



sixty-two to sixty -four degrees. 



A. W. Cheever. 

 Sheldonville, Sept. 12, 1872. 



TRA^SPLA^TmG FOREST-TREES. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Messrs. Ames. 

 The lot of transplanted white-pines we enter for premium 

 contains about six acres, upon which we set young pines in 

 1853 and 1854 in April and May of each year, which we think 

 is the best time for transplanting evergreens. The trees 

 were taken from open ground, where they had been exposed 

 to the sun and wind, such trees being more hardy than those 

 growing in shady and sheltered places. They were from one 

 to four feet in height, and were mostly taken up with a spade 

 or shovel, not pulled up, as pulling is apt to strip the 

 bark from the roots. They were set about eight feet apart, 

 and have done very well, being from twenty to thirty feet in 

 height and six to ten inches in diameter. The soil varies 

 from light and sandy, on the higher and larger portion of the 

 lot, to gravelly and dark loam as it approaches the low land 



adjoining. 



Statement of Zebulon Pratt. 



As I do not know the form of report requisite, I will give 

 3^ou the facts in regard to the way in which I transplanted the 

 white-pine trees I have entered for premium. I purchased 

 twenty-five acres of land, soil thin and worn-out, for two 

 hundred and twenty dollars. I paid six dollars per acre to 

 have the trees set out, in rows ten feet apart each way. The 

 trees were from six inches to two feet high, and were dug 

 from pastures and the sides of the highway, a portion of them 



