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Second premium, of five dollars, to Charles C. Sewall, of 

 Medfield, for his red heifer, three years old. Her two calves, 

 thirteen months and two months old, were promising animals. 



Third premium, of four dollars, to O. A. Taft, of Roxbury, 

 for his heifer, two years and three months old. Mr. Taft ex- 

 hibited three other heifers, all very handsome, and entitled to 



special notice. 



CHEEVER NEWHAI.L, Chairman. 



On the Dairy. 



The committee report, that there were but two specimens of 

 butter offered, and they award the first premium of $10 to Rev. 

 Charles C. Sewall, of Medfield. 



Charles C. SewaWs Statement. 



I offer for premium, two boxes of September butter, made 

 last week, and containing twenty pounds. I have made since 

 the 23d of May, eight hundred and ten pounds of butter. I 

 have milked seven cows, some of which, calved in Decem- 

 ber or January, until the last of August ; and since that time, 

 nine cows, two of wdiich calved in August. The feed of all, 

 has been grass, and occasionally corn-fodder, until the last 

 week, when, instead of the corn-fodder, they have had two 

 quarts each, of shorts, per day. 



The milk was kept in a cool cellar, during July and August ; 

 at other times, in a cool room above stairs, and stood from 

 thirty-six to forty-eight hours. The pans are tin. The cream 

 was churned twice in each week. The buttermilk was thor- 

 oughly drawn out, by working the butter twice in successive 

 days, with the hands. The salt used, was fine, ground rock 

 salt, and about one ounce to the pound of butter. 



My family is large, numbering from fourteen to seventeen 

 persons at my table, daily ; and we have used the milk and 

 cream of these cows without stint. The butter has all been 

 made and pvit up by my eldest daughter. 



Medfield, September 2Ath, 1849. 



