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side, within which there is another tin conical vessel, with tubes 

 fitting these grooves. The tubes are extremely small, and run 

 spirally round the vessel. You can have the water in the inner 

 vessel at whatever temperature you choose, and pass your milk 

 straight through the inner vessel into the other. A very small 

 vessel will take as much as ten men can draw from the cows. 

 It trickles through these spiral tubes and comes out at the lower 

 end at the temperature you desire, instantly. It is a matter of 

 five minutes, more or less, depending upon the rapidity of the 

 flow and the quantity of milk. I am sure that system of cooling 

 is the best yet devised. 



You probably will not be astonished if, before I sit down, I 

 advise you to go a step further than Mr. Willard has advised 

 you to go. He says, if you have any diseased cows, do not mix 

 the milk of those animals witli the milk out of which you are 

 going to make your cheese and butter, but throw it to the pigs. 

 Now, I say, don't throw it to the pigs ! I think the force of that 

 remark will be appreciated without further observation by 

 myself. 



Adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Board met at 2 o'clock, and the Chairman stated the 

 subject for consideration to be the Hay Crop of Massachusetts. 

 The discussion was opened by Mr. Alex. Hyde, of Lee. 



THE HAY CROP. 



Grass is king among the crops of the earth. More land is 

 devoted to its cultivation and more money value realized from 

 it than from any other product, cotton not excepted. Our 

 Southern brethren, a few years since, crowned cotton as king ; 

 but events showed him to be an usurper of a throne which 

 rightfully belongs to grass. Mankind for ages lived without 

 cotton, but never existed without grass. Paradise would not 

 have been paradise had not its fields been covered with a carpet 

 of green grass. Certainly the animals that came to Adam for 

 their names would have found miserable forage and run a short 

 career, had not the verdant herbage of the pastures furnished 

 them sustenance. The statistics of the nations of the earth 

 prove that grass is the most essential and most remunerative of 



