JVEW ENGtANB FARMER, 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



VOIa. XIV, 



I'UIiLlSllEI) IIV GEURGE C. liARKETT, NO. 5i NORTII MARKET STREET, (Agricultural Warehousk.) — T. G. FESSGNDEN, EDITOR. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1835. 



NO. 2!i 



(Korthe .New KniLuiil Faliacr.) 

 REPORT OX BUTTER AND CHEKSE, 



Till- ('oiiiMiittce of ilic .Massiu-lmso ts Sooiety 

 Tor till' Proiiiolion of Agriculture, to wliorii wen- 

 ssi'.'iierl the iliities of awarding preniiutns for 

 ButtiM-sind Cheese, report as follows: — 



Tlmt hoiiig assistcil by E. T. Hastings, John 

 [TnnI, ami N. A. Thoin|isini, Esqrs., the last ofli- 

 iating as Secretary, tlicy have performed their 

 liitics to their own satisfaction, and they hope to 

 reneral neeejitatioti. There were eleven lots of 

 Sutter exhihited for premiun's, as follows. 

 Lot No. 1 — 5 firkius — Nathan Gushing, Vt. 



— very iiriiuc. 



Lot No. 2 — 6 tubs — Elijah Hapgood, Shrews- 

 lury — very iirirne. 



This lot the committee considered entitled to 

 he Society's 3il premium of .soQ, and they award 

 he same accordingly. 



Lot No. 3 — 9 pots and 5 firkins — Luther 

 ^Chamberlain, Westboro' — good. One pot very 

 rime. The committee regret to observe that 

 here was quite a falling off both in Mr Chamber- 

 lin's Butter and the manner of putting it up this 

 eason from what they have usually observed. 



Lot No. 4 — 6 tubs — Tiiomas Wright, Ster- 



ig — fair. 



Lot No. 5 — 12 tubs — AVilliam Bachop, Vt. 



— very extra and very uniformly good. The 

 ommittee could find but one fault, (if fault it 

 ouid he eallerl) in Mr Bachop's lot of butter, 

 'his consisted in the too liberal use of sugar. 



hey reconuneud to Mr Bachop to omit that arti- 

 le altogether in the manufacture of butter, or at 

 ast to use only half the quantity used this year. 

 Notwithstanding this objection, however, thecom- 

 littee consider Mr B.'s butter superior to any 

 ther offered, and accordingly award to him the 

 ociety's first premium of $50. 



Lot No. 6 — 7 tubs — Robert Gibson, Vt. — 

 rdinary. 



Lot No. 7 — 6 tubs — Richard Hildreth, Ster- 

 ng — very extra. 



This lot of butter the committee considered 

 )stly entitled to the Society's 2d premium of $25, 

 nd accordingly award the same to Mr Hildreth. 



Lot No. 8 — 10 tubs — Claude Harvey, Barnet, 

 ''t. This lot the committee considered very 

 ood, as a loi ; three tubs, however, were of ordi- 

 ary quality ; with the exception of these tliree 

 lbs, the residue the conuiiittee think nearly if 

 ot quite equal to Mr Hajigood's lot. 



Lot No. 9 — 8 pots — George Denny, West- 

 oro'. The packed butter in this lot the conimit- 

 ee considered very good, but upon the top of 

 ach pot there were a number of small balls, the 

 uality of which they pronounced quite ordinary. 



Lot No. 10 — 4 pots and 3 boxes -,- Charles 

 'utter, \\ eston — fair. 



Lot No. 11—5 firkins — Benjamin Fay, West- 

 lorough — good. , 



The committee after a very critical and careful 

 examination of all the statements made by the 

 several claimants respecting the number of cow-s 

 kept on the farm ; the mode of keeping them ; 

 the management of the milk and cream ; the 

 method of churning in winter and siimmei;; the 

 means used to express the butteririilk ; the quan- 

 tity of salt employed ; whether saltpetre or any 

 other substances have been used in the process; 

 the best time for churning and keeping butter in 

 hot weather ; the best method of )ireserving it in 

 and throusih the summer and winter, and in what 

 vessels: Rejiort, they do not find in any of the 

 statements a process described which differs essen- 

 tially from those given in former years. 



The premium butter sold at auction as follows : 

 First premium, from 39 to 37 cents per pound. 

 Second do. 36 do. 



Third do. 38 to 37 do. 



There were three lots of old and nine lots of 

 new Cheese exhibited for premium as follows: 



Old Cheese, Lot No. 1, 11 Cheeses, John Mat- 

 thews, New Braintree. Very good. 

 Old Cheese, Lot No. 2, 13 Cheeses, David Lee, 

 Barre. Extra. 



The committee considered this lot to be justly 

 entitled to a premium, and have accordingly 

 awarded to Mr Lee the Society's first premium of 

 twentyfive dollars. 



Lot No. 3. 7 Cheeses, J. E. Hoyt, Vt. This 

 lot the committee did not examine, the same 

 cheese having obtained the Society's first premium 

 on old cheese last year. 



New Cheese, Lot No. 1, 11 Cheeses, John Hun- 

 ter, New Braintree. Good. 



New Cheese, Lot No. 2, 9 Cheeses, Ebenezer 

 Tidd, .New Braintree. 

 This lot the Committee considered of extra 



quality, and awarded to Mr Tidd the Society's 



second premium of $20. 



New Cheese, Lot No. 3, 12 Cheeses, Job Rainger, 

 New Braintree. Very good. 



Lot No. 4, 5 Cheeses, A. H. Bowman, New Brain- 

 tree. Very good. 



Lot No. 5, 13 Cheeses, Daniel Hunter, New 

 Braintree. Ordinary. 



Lot No. 6, 11 Cheeses, Roswell Converse, A^ew 

 Braintree. Good. 



Lot No. 7, 14 Cheeses, Lorenzo Converse, New 

 Braintree. Fair. 



Lot No. 8, 15 Cheeses, David Lee, Barre. Very 

 good. 



Lot No. 9, 9 Cheeses, Timothy Fisher, Lvndcn, 

 Vt. 

 This lot the committee considered of extra 



quality, and scarcely inferior to Mr Tidd's lor, 



and with much difficulty decided between them. 



As a lot, however, they finally decided that Mr 



Tidd's was the best. Mr Tidd's premium cheese 



sold at auction at 14 cents per pound. The other 



|ircmiuin cheese was not sold. It does not appear 



from the statements exhibited, to be any peculiar- 



't'es in the modes of mamifiicturing the cheese 

 adopted by the successful competitors that deserve 

 particular mention. 



As these premiums were originally the sub- 

 scription of individuals addf-d to the funds of the 

 Society, and offered and awarded by a Committee 

 of this board, at the request of the subscribers, 

 and heretofore the use of the public halls of the 

 city have been readily granted ; and as for the 

 last two years the request for the use of the pub- 

 lic rooms has been denied, and the funds also have 

 been wholly furnished by the Society, the com- 

 mittee recommend to the Trustees to discontinue 

 the premiums in future. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



E. IIersy Derby. 



Boston, Dec. 2, 1835. 



(From tlie New York Farmer and Gardener.) 

 SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



In my communication to the last number o*" 

 Ihe New York Farmer, I referred to an account 

 of a sheep establishment, politely furnished nie by 

 a very intelligent and ex]ierimental shepherd, 

 Leonard Jarvis, Esq., of Claremont, N. H., as 

 accidentally mislaid. It has since come to hand, 

 and 1 have the pleasure of presenting it to my 

 agricultural friends, to whom it will be interest- 

 ing. 



Claremont, J\r. H. Aug. 23, 1835. 



Rev. H. Colman — Dear Sir: My avocations 

 have been so pressing, that uritil this moment I 

 have not been able to communicate, as you re- 

 (picsted me, some remarks upon my sheep and 

 their treatment. Though 1 have been a shepherd 

 30 years, with a flock seldom ever less than 1000, 

 more frequently 2000, I am stiil somewhat unde- 

 cided what description of wool can be grown 

 most profitably, and whether carefully breeding in 

 and in, or judiciously crossing, produces the great- 

 est itni)rovenient. 



I commenced growing fine wool with a consid- 

 erable number of the imported Paiilar and Escu- 

 rial, then considered as the best stock in Spain, 

 which flock I have kept to this day, pure and 

 unmixed, and at the same time, by crossing two 

 flocks, have a third flock, combining generally 

 the properties of both flocks, but occasionally 

 showing the characteristics of one of them. At 

 the introduction of the Saxons I jirocured some 

 valuable bucks, and by crossing them with pure 

 Merinos, acquired a fourth flock, and consequently 

 have bar', for the last ten years, four distinct 

 flocks, viz: Paiilar, Escurial, Paularand Escurial 

 mixed, and Saxon luiited with Merino. These 

 4 flocks have acquired great perfection by my 

 unremitted attention to the selection of breeders, 

 the Merino at this time carrying a much finer 

 fleece than in ISIO, as is apparent by contrasting 

 the present clips with wool shorn in that year. 

 There is very little difterence in the fineness of 

 my Saxon and Escurial fleeces ; these last are 

 somewhat heavier, with a staple more elastic. 

 The Escurial has a greater resemblance than any 



