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For the roup or catarrh, keep them near a warm fire, wash 

 the nostrils with castile soap-suds as often as necessary, and the 

 swollen eyes with warm milk and water. 



For lice, ashes or lime or sand, or altogether, to roll in. But 

 an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Keep 

 them drjir and warm, especially at the moulting season. Clean 

 out their roosts often, and whitewash inside. You will then 

 have a healthy flock, that will fully repay you for your trouble. 



LoRiNG Crocker, Chairman. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



It is a fact well known that the production of butter and 

 cheese is not a leading agricultural interest of this county. Our 

 numerous cities and villages require a large proportion of the 

 dairy product in the form of milk, and this proportion is con- 

 stantly increasing. And yet it does not necessarily follow that 

 less effort should be made to produce the best qualities of butter 

 and cheese. Most of the farmers, and many who are not farm- 

 ers, produce their own butter ; and as no poor article of food — 

 always except'ing poor bread — so injures an otherwise good meal 

 as does poor butter ; and as our enjoyment in life depends 

 largely on the quality of the food we eat, it perhaps follows that 

 excellence in the manufacture of butter will contribute quite as 

 much to our comfort and happiness as if it were the leading 

 agricultural product. 



We were struck with the similarity of the statements of the . 

 contributors of butter — both of those who received a premium 

 and those who did not. The manner of making seems to be in 

 most cases essentially the same. And yet there was a wide 

 difference in the quality of the different samples — a difference 

 which could not be accounted for by any difference in the 

 methods of making. We suppose the highest excellence in the 

 production of butter requires three things : 1st, cows that give 



