;:;38 on the dairy. 



ums— viz. by Richard Heath, William Thurlovv and Edmund 

 Hills, all of West Newbury, each of which came within the rules 

 prescribed by the Trustees. These specimens your committee 

 think were all very fine and doing great credit to the individuals 

 who preseated them, and to the town distinguished from most 

 towns for its agricultural thrift. 



Your comraitee recommend that the 



^10 1st. Premium be awarded to Richard Heath. 

 8 2d. do. to William Thurlow, 



The specimen offered by Mr, Hills was very good and the 

 committee, had some little hesitation of deciding the comparative 

 excellence of this and that of Mr, Thurlow's, bat finally decid- 

 ed in favor of the latter upon the fact that this was rather the most 

 mild in taste and flavor. 



Tl^ere were presented two specimens of butter made before 

 the 9th of July — viz. by Daniel Putman, of Danvers, and Wil- 

 liam Tenney, of Byfield, in regard to which your committee re- 

 commend the premium of seven dollars to be awarded to Mr. 

 Putman ; and that of five to Mr. Tenney. 



These specimens your committee regard as very good, and 

 well entitled to the premium awarded ; but cannot help express- 

 ing the hope and belief that some more effectual way of preserv- 

 ing butter manufactured at that season of the year, sweet and 

 pleasant, will yet be found out, than those now practiced upon. 



Of butter made during the season there was but one specimen 

 of sufficient quantity to entitle it on that ground to reward. This 

 was presented by Mrs. Abigail Carter, of the Fatherland Farm 

 at Byfield. A place which from the general arrangement and 

 style of cultivation cannot be visited but with great satisfaction 

 and advantage by those who have any taste for, or concern in 

 the riches of the field or of the state. Your committee consider 

 the butter presented by Mrs. Carter, fine, but not possesing all 

 the excellences, and not accompanied with all the account of the 

 manner of manufacture, which would justly entitle it to the only 

 premium offered by the Trustees this year ; yet as richly deserv- 

 ing the liberal consideration of the Board, they recommend that 

 a gratuity of fourteen dollars be given to her. 



