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perishable than butter, consequently can be transported as well 

 as exported with less detriment than butter. For these reasons 

 our cities and manufacturing villages will look to our farmers 

 for a nice, fresh, healthy article. 



Why cannot Worcester County have as good reputation for 

 butter as Orange County, N. Y. ? If more intelligence, care 

 and persistent labor are required in this branch of farming, let 

 us give more brain-work and hand-work to this necessary and 

 healthy vocation. 



If not irrelevant, let me suggest that the butter dairymen and 

 their wives meet in their respective towns this winter, or other 

 places deemed most practicable, to consider and socially examine 

 the whole question relative to the manufacture of butter. 



And permit me to ask, why should not our daughters have 

 the advantage of scientific culture in chemistry and kindred 

 sciences as well as our sons ? In the manufacture of cheese, of 

 butter, in the different processes of cooking, more or less chem- 

 istry is involved. Why not open the Agricultural College at 

 Amherst to our girls ? Equality before the law is now the 

 " shibboleth " of our country. As we are in favor of the adop- 

 tion of the Fifteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution, 

 we are as decidedly in favor of the education of our daughters 

 at our noble State institution, as fully and as completely as we 

 are our sons. 



From the Report of the Committee. 

 Cheese. — The " cheese factory is among us," and bids fair to 

 make a complete revolution in this branch of manufacture. 

 Will it be a success ? It is too late in the day to doubt it. Like 

 all other new enterprises, they require time and patience to de- 

 velop them, but the result is certain. It is supposed by many, 

 that these establishments are designed particularly for those 

 doing business on a large scale and not adapted to small dairies. 

 But this we think is a mistake. The cheese made from five or 

 six cows, more or less, cannot be equal to that produced by a 

 large number. The cheeses are too small, they are hard and 

 dry, and not what the market calls for, either for home con- 

 sumption or export. A large portion of the cheese that goes to 

 market, is retailed at the counter of the grocer in small quan- 

 tities, and for this purpose the large-sized cheese is preferred, 



