156 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



The committee on dairies submitted the following valuable 



REPORT : 



Only seven lots of new cheese were entered and submitted for 

 examination. Of these lots the committee considered that made by 

 William Robinson, Jr., of Barre, entitled to the first premium of $15. 

 The second premium of $10 was awarded to Samuel Ellsworth, of 

 the same place ; and the third of $5, was adjudged to Hollis Tidd, 

 of New Braintree. 



In awarding these premiums the committee have confidence that 

 full justice was done to the several competitors. 



There were found among other lots a particular cheese of decidedly 

 superior quality to any one of the successful lots of cheese. 



Far superior to any, was one cheese made by S. W. Lincoln, of 

 South Adams ; but the decidedly bad condition of the second one 

 tasted by the committee, and the varied quality of the remaining two 

 of the lot, compelled the rejection of the cheese as a whole. 



So the two sage cheese of Mr. Ellsworth, were of such supe- 

 rior excellence as to raise the whole exhibited by him to a point which, 

 had these been omitted, the lot would not have reached. 



The cheese of Job Ranger, and Moses Thompson, of New Brain- 

 tree, and Peter Harwood, of Barre, were so good as only to be infe- 

 rior to the other more successful lots. 



A slight variance in the mode of manufacture, particularly in the 

 amount of salt added to the curd, might in the opinion of the judges 

 have changed the direction of some of the premiums. 



No old cheese, as such, was entered, an absence of which was 

 especially regretted. 



Thirteen boxes of lump butter, and five lots of tub butter, duly 

 returned by the Secretary, and ranged upon the tables, admonished 

 the committee of the extent and delicacy of their labors. 



Although no lot was duly entered as having been " made in June," 

 the committee adjudged that such was the date of the manufacture of 

 that entered by Mrs. Wilkes Roper, of Princeton, and, although the 

 only lot of the kind, its good quality entitled it to the first premium 

 of $15 offered for such butter. • 



Of the four lots of tub butter made since June, no member of the 

 committee hesitated a moment in declaring that of T. M. S tough ton, 

 of Gill, decidedly superior to any other offered. The sense of sight, 

 of smelling, and of taste were alike gratified; and had the com- 

 mittee been in possession of this lot, their only want, so far as this 

 article goes, would have been satisfied. Of course the first premium 



