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Hens and chickens sold 

 Value of chickens nsed 

 Value of eggs used 

 Value of manure 



Expense of keeping 



Profit 825 09 



North Danveks. Sept. 2oth. 1S51. 



Dairy Products. 



The several parcels of butter, and the statements, were num- 

 bered, arid the premiums were awarded before the committee 

 knew by whom the butter was made. The following are the 

 statements of the successful competitors. 



John Preston's Statement. 



I present a jar containing twenty-eight pounds of June but- 

 ter, a sample of one hundred and sixty-seven pounds, made 

 from the milk of four cows, from June 1st to July 9th. 



Also, a box of fifteen pounds of September butter, a speci- 

 men of three hundred and fifty-two pounds, made from May 

 23 to September 23. from the same cows. We have used and 

 sold four quarts of milk per day. It is probable the cows did 

 not yield so large a quantity within the above named dates as 

 they might have done, had not two of them come in so early 

 as February 2()th, Previous to making butter, these two cows 

 fattened six calves for the butcher, the other two one each, 

 making eight calves fattened by the four cows, previous to 

 May 20th, which w^ere sold for $51 20, averaging 86 40 each. 

 The cows have had common pasture till August 1st, since then 

 corn fodder. 



Danvers, Sept. 25, 1851. 



Jonathan Berry's Statement. 

 1 present twenty-five pounds of June butter, being a sample 

 of two hundred and seventy-five pounds, the product of five 



