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to Iiiin who improves in the best manner what he has, whether 

 it be one or ten, and offers the best example for imitation. 

 The Committee to view, the present season, are 



JOSEPH KITTREDGE, of Andover. 

 ELI AS PUTNAM, of Danvers. 

 ELIPHALET EMERY, of W. JVewhury. 

 HECTOR COFFIN, ofMwhury. 

 PICKERING DODGE, of Salem. 

 THOMAS WEST, 2o, of Haverhill. 

 JOHN W. PROCTOR, of Danvers. 



II. DAIRY. 



1. For the best butter produced on any farm within the 

 county, from the 1st of June to the 9th of July, inclusive, in 

 the present year, a sample of which, not less than twenty-five 

 pounds, to be exhibited, with a particular statement of the 

 method of making and preserving the same, seven dollars. 



For the second best, six dollars. 



For the third best, five dollars. 



For the fourth best, four dollars. 



2. For the best produce of butter, on any farm within the 

 county, in the four months next following the twentieth of May^ 

 the present year — a sample of not less than twenty-five pounds 

 of this butter to be exhibited at the anniversary of the Society — 

 quality, as well as quantity, to be taken into view, with a satis- 

 factory account of the manner in which the cows have been fed,, 

 and the general management of the milk and butter, 



tvyelve dollars. 

 For the second best, eight dollars. 



3. For the best produce of new milk cheese, in proportion 

 to the number of cows producing it, on any farm within the coun- 

 ty, in the months of Jane, July, August and September, in 

 the present year, a sample of which, not less than fifty pounds, 

 to be exhibited, ten dollars. 



For the second best, eight dollars. 



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