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kind of feed is to be used at all, it should be chopped and mixed 

 ■with something nutritive, so that the animal may strengthen and 

 thrive thereby. lie that withholds from his beasts any portion of a 

 full and generous feed, whatever may be the use he contemplates to 

 make of them, in the same proportion diminishes his own income. 



November 15, 1848. 



J. W. PROCTOR, ] 



H. WARE, Jr. [ Committee. 



JOSEPH HOW. 



ON THE DAIRY. 



The Committee on the Dairy make the following Report : 



There were but four entries of butter for premium the present 

 year, and one of these not coming within the rules of the Society, 

 your Committee did not feel themselves at liberty to award to it any 

 one of the premiums at their disposal, although the butter was of 

 very fair quality, and would have received the favorable notice of 

 the Committee, had the rules of the Society been observed. Your 

 Committee therefore recommend that premiums be awarded as fol- 

 lows, viz. : 



For June butter, the first premium of ten dollars, to Charles P. 

 Preston, of Danvers. The second premium of eight dollars, to 

 Benjamin Boynton, of Andover. 



For September butter, the first premium of ten dollars to Nathan- 

 iel Felton, of Danvers, the second premium of eight dollars, to 

 Charles P. Preston, of Danvers, and the third premium of six dol- 

 lars, to Benjamin Boynton, of Andover. 



There was also presented to the notice of the Committee, a very 

 fine specimen of new milk cheese, by William Marshall, of Essex, 

 three offered as a sample of 100 cheeses, made the past season, 

 weighing in the aggregate 3000 lbs. There being no premium for 

 cheese offered by the Society the present year, your Committee re- 

 commend a gratuity of eight dollars. 



Respectfully submitted for the Committee, 



LEWIS ALLEN. 



