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We have confined our remarks more particularly to common 

 barnyard fowls, not from any particular preference, but from 

 the necessity of drawing the line somewhere, and having contin- 

 ually before us the dread of making our report too lengthy. A 

 recent writer in the Country Gentleman says he raised from six 

 hens and one cock, ninety young turkeys, worth one hundred 

 and fifty dollars. The expense he does not speak of, but it 

 could not have been very great, as they took care of themselves 

 after four weeks ; and did space allow, as good a word might 

 be spoken for any and all of the poultry kind. 



Here, then, gentlemen, is a fair field. If, as many complain, 

 it be true that corn and wheat can be purchased cheaper than 

 it can be raised ; if, by the system of railway communication 

 the great West, with its cheap, rich lands is brought too near 

 for successful competition, in those great staples, try something 

 else that will pay, and instead of being obliged to import, let us 

 export from Worcester North tliousands of dozens of eggs and 

 tons of poultry. 



George B. Towne, Chairman. 



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ESSEX. 



Statement of Harriet D. Sawyer. 

 Cheese. — I enter for premium four new milk cheeses, weigh- 

 ing fifty-three pounds. Each cheese contains the milk of two 

 days. The evening milk is strained into a tub and rennet 

 added immediately. The rennet should be of sufficient strength 

 'to form the curd in thirty minutes, and should not be broken 

 up under one hour or more. After being carefully broken, it 

 is dipped off and left to drain until morning. The same 

 process is repeated with the morning's milk. After that is 

 broken the evening's curd is skimmed into it. The whole is 

 then scalded with whey dipped from it, then thoroughly drain, 

 chop fine, salt, and press twenty-four hours. Salt with Liver- 

 pool salt, one table-spoonful to a pail of milk. Tlie cheeses are 

 then dried in a dark room, turned and rubbed daily. Late in 



