MILCH COWS. 297 



Quantity of butter made for four months, commencing the 

 2 2d of May:— 



"Whole amount, . . . 156 12 



A sample of this butter is exhibited. 



West Boylston, September 26, 1854. 



Report of the Committee appointed to award the State Premi- 

 ums on Dairies. 



The trustees of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 

 of Agriculture, in a spirit of large and enlightened liberality, 

 having placed at the disposal of the Worcester Agricultural 

 Society generous premiums for the encouragement of the dairy ^ 

 Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, John Brooks, of Princeton, Thomas 

 W. Ward, of Shrewsbury, Charles Demond, of Westboro', and 

 David Lee, of Barre, were appointed by the trustees of the 

 latter society to receive and examine the claims of the compet- 

 itors, and to determine the award of these premiums, and, hav- 

 ing given to the discharge of the duty assigned them all the 

 attention and carefulness in their power, respectfully submit 

 their report. 



" The dairy," in its broadest signification, is a term of large 

 comprehensiveness. It embraces the animals, their manage- 

 ment and their treatment; their product in calves and in milk; 

 the care, use, and disposition of the milk; the manufacture of 

 butter and cheese ; the dairy house and its utensils ; the keep- 

 ing of swine; indeed, in one word, the dairy comprises the 



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