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color. Salt is also advantageous to milch cows; it increases 

 the quantity of milk, and corrects the disagreeable taste it ac- 

 quires from turnips. This root, so easily raised, should be 

 extensively cultivated by farmers in general, and dairymen in 

 particular, but especially by milkmen. The chairman of this 

 committee begs leave to say, that last year, of the variety 

 known as the long white top, he raised sixteen hundred bush- 

 els to the acre. Farmers who have used this variety as food 

 for stock, can make their own estimate of the value of such a 

 crop, and those who have not, are invited to try the experi- 

 ment. 



3d. A northern aspect is undoubtedly the best for a milk 

 room, and the temperature should be from 50 to 55 degrees 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer. 



The man who complies with these conditions, will find that 

 they are the conditions of success ; and that whoever does it, 

 lays the foundation of a fortune, provided he has in the outset, 

 selected a wife who is accomplished in the art of butter- 

 making. 



The committee award to Miss Ursula C. Gillet, South- 

 wick, first premium, - - - - $4 00 



And for butter made by young ladies under 20 years, 

 to Miss Elizabeth Rowe, West Springfield, first pre- 

 mium, - - - - - -3 00 



To Miss Harriet Kirkland, West Springfield, second 



premium, - - - - - -2 00 



RICHARD BAGG, Jr., Chairman. 



Directors' Report. 



We cannot discharge our duty, in closing our concerns with 

 the society for the current year, without an attempt to arouse 

 a deeper feeling in the minds of our farmers, to their own per- 

 sonal interest, as well as a more lively solicitude in the welfare 

 of our society. The well being of both, seem too nearly re- 

 lated and alHed, to be so far separated as they now appear to 

 be. The very organization of the society was intended as a 

 nucleus, around which the farmers of Hampden might congre- 



