of niac'luneiT and .^team power, have worked an entire revolu- 

 tion in tlie trade. The mode of sellino; is also chano-ed. De- 

 positories have been establislicd in all the principal cities of the 

 conntry, and the trade is now conducted ni)on the most ap- 

 proved .mercantile principles. The well known energy and 

 enterprise of the gentlemen who are engaged in this business 

 in Essex County, and the large amount of capital they employ 

 makes the prospect for the future most encouraging. 

 For the Comuiittee — AVarrcn Ordwav. 



DAIRY 



Tliere were twehc specimens of Butter entered for premium, 

 and the most of it "was of superior C[uality. 



Francis Dane, of Hamilton, presented 20 lbs. of Butter 

 made from his Jersey Cows. It Mas of good color and of 

 superior quality. The Committee would recoinmend that he 

 receive tiie 1st premium, diploma and $10. 



To Oliver Patch," of Hamilton, 2d premium, $8. 



To Clarissa S. Caldwell, of Ipsvvich, 3d premium, $G. 



To J. C. Underhill, of Peabody, 4th premium, $4. 



The second premium would have been gi-^en to another, had 

 tlicrc been a statement accompanying the specimen as the rules 

 require. 



Lucy JNIarshall, of Ipswich, presented a specimen of Cheese, 

 to whom the Committee would recommend the 2d premium 

 of $5. 



After deciding on the several premiums, your Committee 

 (being most of them men of long experience in keeping cows 

 and making butter,) had an interesting discussion on the sub- 

 ject, and were happily united in their opinion on almost every 

 point, and requested their chairman to make a report and affix 

 their signatures to the same. 



On examining the reports of former years we find a great 

 -similarity of opinion on tlie subject. But as the persons Avhose 



