812 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the sum of seventy or eighty, and sometimes much higher, it is 

 very evident that it is the part of wisdom to prepare for the 

 shambles the inferior dairy cow, and supply her place by one 

 that will yield better returns. It is difficult to accomplish this 

 at once, but with sufficient care there may be a great improve- 

 ment in that direction. 



Three factories, South Adams, Hardwick and Warren, have 

 made 838,535 pounds of cheese the past season. The other 

 factories have not yet reported. 



I cannot give as many returns as I would like, showing the 

 relative value of milk for the different purposes for which it is 

 used. I will give the result of 371,892 gallons: 201,073 

 gallons were sent to market, and 170,823 were made into cheese. 

 The result was that the milk sent to market brought $31,758.94, 

 or $0.1579 per gallon. 



This was 80.0192 per gallon better than the returns for 

 cheese in the same town. This is based upon the entire year. 

 But if we take the time the factory was in operation (seven 

 months,) the milk brought for cheese $0.0096 per gallon more 

 than the milk for market. This does not include any income 

 for the whey, which is estimated at from four to six dollars per 

 cow. In this case the balance would be in favor of cheese. 

 But, as I have said before, all cannot turn their attention in the 

 same direction. Newton S. Hubbard. 



Thomas Billings. 



The above Report having been adopted, it was voted to appoint 

 a committee of three to consider and report upon the application 

 of the Nantucket and other societies, for a change of time of 

 holding their exhibitions. Messrs. Davis, Sladc and Watkins. 



This Committee subsequently reported to fix the time of these 

 exhibitions 



The Norfolk to begin September 19. 



The Bristol Central to begin September 19. 



The Nantucket to begin September 25. 



The Report was accepted, and the time so fixed respectively. 



