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paring. She also exhibited a can ol fresh Milk, although it 

 was seven months old, preserved in a common self-sealing 

 glass can. 



Jellies being such a delicious appetizer with bread and 

 meats, and for the delicate appetite of the sick, deserve a place 

 in every household. Your Committee had but one fault to find 

 with those exhibited this year, and that was their uniform 

 sweetness, too sweet in fact, when made from fruits whose 

 peculiar acidity is their charm, that acidity being entirely lost 

 in the jelly. 



The Pickles exhibited were excellent, especially the large 

 number of varieties made by Mrs. Ladd, the pickled peaches 

 and pears of Mrs. Hill, and the supurb little cucumbers of Mrs. 

 Fuller's make, who fully sustained her reputation of last year 

 in this line, (her receipt for making them can be found in last 

 year's repi^rt of the "Vegetable Committee"); as it is short we 

 give it again after Jelly statement in this report. 



Your Committee have recommended a premium on Dried 

 Apples, seeing no reason why the Society should not offer this 

 inducement in ascertaining means by which this crop, so 

 abundant with us, can be disposed of with profit. Other dried 

 fruits should receive encouragement when worthy of it, for the 

 present, however, by means of gratuities. 



Cake and Pastry, which, although the society offer no par- 

 ticular inducement for their exhibition, your committee found 

 the articles exhibited choice enough to grace any table, and for 

 which gratuities were awarded. Those from Griffin's bakery 

 of Lynn, being in a large show case, added much to the display 

 in this department, yet the Committee have serious doubts of the 

 expediency of encouraging exhibitors of Cake and Pastry, except, 

 perhaps, for displays by Bakers where the merits of the articles 

 are not in question and where such displays are in glass cases. 

 Speaking of glass cases, how much the Society could add to 

 the success of this department of the Fair, and still more to 

 the Butter department, by hiring glass cases for the display of 

 bread and butter. It would save a great deal of care from the 

 Hall Committee, and enable the exhibit to be shown to better 



