98 PREMIUMS OFFERED. 



wealthiest owner, but to him 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 year, are 



AMOS SHELDON, of Beverly, 

 ELIPHALET EMERY, of West Mwbury. 

 THOMAS WEST, 2d, of Haverhill. 

 JAMES STEVENS, Jr, of Andover. 

 PICKERING DODGE, of Salem, 

 EBENEZER KING, of Darners, 

 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, eight dollars. 



For the second best, six dollars. 



For the third 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 sat- 

 isfactory account of the manner in which the cows 

 have been fed, and the general management of the 

 milk and butter, twelve 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 county, in the months of July, 



