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for the first offence and of one hundred dollars for each sub- 

 sequent offence." 



Section 4, chapter 412, Acts of 1891, which provides for 

 a placard upon the wagon of "whoever peddles, sells or 

 delivers from any cart, wagon or other vehicle, upon the 

 the public streets or ways, oleomargarine, etc.," should be 

 amended by striking out the words ' ' upon the public streets 

 or ways." 



The municipal license fee should be increased from fifty 

 cents to not over twenty-five dollars. 



Butter Exhibition. 



A successful butter exhibition was held by the Dairy 

 Bureau in connection with the winter meeting of the Board 

 of Agriculture at Great Barrington. Every butter maker 

 in the State was invited to contribute to the exhibition ; no 

 prizes were awarded, but all the specimens were examined 

 and scored by experts, — Mr. E. A. Harris of Hovey & Co., 

 Boston, who was one of the three judges at the World's Fair 

 at Chicago, and Mr. James Cheesman, the well-known dairy 

 expert. The exhibits were all made by number, and in 

 order to increase the educational value of the exhibition, 

 the judges were requested to use the utmost frankness in 

 criticising. These criticisms were entered on the score 

 cards, — the anonymous features being maintained, — and 

 the public was invited to test the specimens and catechise 

 the judges. 



The entries included : — 



Creameries, 12 



Private dairies, . . . , 49 



Unsalted samples, 2 



Granular samples, 4 



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The season was not propitious for high scores. It was so 

 near the border line between fall and winter that many of 

 the specimens showed wintery imperfections, eflects of frosty 

 feed, milk of strippers, or other defects incident to the cattle 

 not being fully settled on a winter basis of food and other 

 conditions. 



