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CARRIAGES. 



The Committee award as follows : — 



To James B, Richardson for phieton, bos buggy, &c., diplo- 

 ma and $15. 



To J. M. Currier for business wagon, $10. 

 Committee — W. Ordway, Aaron Sawyer. 



DAIRY. 



The Committee on the Dairy report : — 



The number of entries was small and of butter alone. With 

 them were the following statements : 



No. 1. 12 lbs. butter, the product of one native cow, from 

 8 days' milking, entered by Mrs. Sarah P. Burnham, Essex, 

 Mass. 



STATEMENT OF MRS. MEHITABLE FOSTER, 



No. 2. The 16 lbs. of September butter that I herewith 

 send in a square box done up in pound lumps, is a specimen of 

 the butter made this season from the cow, half Jersey and 

 half Ayrshire, now seven years old, that we have owned for 

 four years past — having made from her, year before last, 205 

 lbs., and having averaged this year more butter per week than 

 then. Her feed has been common pasturing, and 2 quarts of 

 Indian meal, and 2 quarts of shorts per day during the season. 



Process of making — Milk each morning and night, strain the 

 milk into tin pans, and let it stand till lit to strain, according 

 to weather. The cream is kept in an earthen pot till it is 

 churned, which is once a week. It is seldom that cold water 

 is used in working the butter in the cliurns, as we have no 

 trouble from the butter coming soft. It is worked over by hand 

 directly it is taken from the clnn-n, to get out the butter-milk, 

 and then it is salted. The next day it is worked over again 

 and made into pound lumps for market, averaging 40 cents 

 per pound. 



Hamilton, Sept. 23, 1873. 



