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there can be such a thing as an untidy woman ; but when he 

 finds in the market, butter of no more vaUie than soap grease, 

 he supposes that he may believe that, in some business, greater 

 attention to cleanliness is required than in other, and that, in 

 the fitness of things, the same pail cannot properly be used for 

 the conveyance of milk and of swill. 



The committee on examining the certificates presented by the 

 competitors, in relation to the quantity of butter made in their 

 dairies, from the 1st day of June to the 10th day of Septem- 

 ber last, were greatly surprised at the discrepancies between 

 the different statements. In one dairy, the product was only 

 seventy-five pounds per cow ; in another, the butter exceeded 

 one hundred and sixteen pounds for each cow, and no reason 

 given for this great difference of more than fifty per cent., in 

 the result given. They were disposed to think that there might 

 have been some mistake in the figures giving the smallest 

 quantity, but, on further examination, they found others, which 

 were but little more satisfactory. 



Can it be, that the owners of these cows obtain a remuner- 

 ating compensation for the keeping of their stock, and the la- 

 bor expended in making the butter, even without interest for 

 the use of the capital employed in the business ? If so, it would 

 still be more profitable to turn their cows into beef, and obtain 

 those which will give evidence of being better adapted to the 

 purposes for which they are fed. 



More attention should be paid to the selection of cows in re- 

 lation to their dairy properties, and only those kept in milk 

 which will pay a profit to the owner. 



The only certificate which states the manner in which the 

 butter was made, is that of Mr. Miles. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Charles E. Miles^s Statement. 



I present for exhibition twenty-four pounds of butter. I 

 have made from my dairy, the past season, between the first 

 day of June and the tenth day of September, five hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds of butter, and four hundred pounds of 

 cheese. 



