30 Reports of Committees. 



CHEESE. 



There were five entries of Factory Cheese, live of Sage, and eight of 100 lbs. 

 This being an entirely new business to us, the first thing was to adopt some plan to 

 test the quality of each competitor's cheese. One of us took the entries as they were 

 numbered, and read them off. The other two with their triers tapped each cheese, 

 as they found the numbers, laid a piece of each cheese on a piece of white paper, and 

 numbered them the same as the cheeses they were taken from. This was easily done. 

 The next thing was to test the fine quality by the taste of the several cheeses, and 

 award the premiums. This was more difficult. Cheese is susceptible of many pecu- 

 liar tastes. It may have a very fine flavor when first put in your mouth, but when 

 you swallow it there is an unpleasant taste. It is a little too salt, or a little sour. 

 Sometimes a little bitter, or has a peculiar strong taste. Some are too hard, others 

 too soft. To make a cheese and have it just the thing, your committee are fully 

 satisfied is quite an art, and can be more successfully carried out by the' system of 

 factory making than any other way. There were two entries of factory cheese so 

 near alike, that your committee could hardly tell which to give the preference. The 

 sage cheeses were of an excellent quality, all worthy of a premium. We award as 



follows : 



Factory Cheese. 



L. D. Wood, Lanesborough, $10 



New Lenox Factory, 8 



Scott Jenks, Cheshire, Champion Factory, 6 



Leland Factory, Cheshire, 4 



Sage Cheese. 



R. J. Smith, New Ashford, 3 



Mrs. II. Owens, Lanesboro, ~ 



Cheese, 100 lbs. 



D. D. Ingalls, Cheshire, 



Ira Richmond, South Adams, - r > 



Geo. W. Fisher, Cheshire, 4 



Mrs. J. Marsh, Lanesboro, 3 



John Dudley, South Adams, - 



E. Prince, Cheshire, 1 



II. A. Barton, } 



J. N. Renxk, > Committee. 



W. A. Fuller, S 



BREAD AND BISCUIT, 



Wheat Bread, Miss Ella G. Ilimcs, New Lonox, #4 



" Mrs. Levi Childs, Pittsfield, ',', 



Mrs. Wm. E. Feck, Lenox, li 



Mrs. H. A. Hale, Dalton, 1 



Rye Bread, Miss Julia Welch, Pittsfield, 4 



" Mrs. S. M. Cooper, Stockbridge, 3 



" Mrs. C. O. Perkins, Becket, -1 



" Mrs. A. C. Butler, Lenox, 1 



