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probably in consequence of the confinement of certain gases, 

 which operate injuriously, and which would escape if there were 

 opportunity. Another of our requisites is color and density. 

 The color, common consent declares, should be yellow; and it 

 is useless to argue the question why it is so. It is granted 

 that this is not a matter wholly within the dairywoman's power ; 

 but then, if she has a husband, and knows how to manage him, 

 she may not find it so very difficult to induce him to make a 

 trial of his cows, and keep only such as shall, by the aid of her 

 facile hands, crown his board with a production as pleasing to 

 the eye as it is tempting to the appetite. 



T. Gr. Huntington, Chairman. 



FRUITS. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Considering the extreme heat of the past summer, with the 

 drought of August, causing so many trees to shed their fruit 

 prematurely, your committee were apprehensive that the show 

 would come short of previous exhibitions of this society. They 

 were, however, agreeably disappointed in finding the quantity 

 and quality of the fruit, on the whole, superior to any previous 

 year — there being upon the tables .one thousand and thirty- 

 eight dishes and baskets from one hundred and thirty contrib- 

 utors. The apples were particularly fine, and less wormy 

 than in former warm and moist seasons, which give rise to 

 myriads of those minute foes, from the caterpillar to the almost 

 invisible fly of every genus. We were pleased with the num- 

 ber of dishes of grapes shown, and trust that we may yet 

 succeed ld producing a hardy variety answering the conditions 

 required in the oiler for a seedling grape, as we have already 

 done in the plum which took the first premium in a neighboring 

 State. 



