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ploughing wide and reversing flat; and, on the other hand, 

 from the Uttle care that is used in staking out the field in a sci- 

 entific manner, and according to a well understood plan. It is 

 to be regretted, that neither of these subjects, fallow ploughing, 

 or the staking out of fields, which are, at once, a school and a 

 test of good ploughing, can come before the public at a plough- 

 ing match ; but a means might be devised whereby premiums 

 should be offered for the best and most scientific fallow of five 

 or ten acres, on the applicant's own farm, in the same way as 

 we offer premiums for the best acre of corn or rye. It is be- 

 lieved that the best results might follow the adoption of such a 

 plan. 



SAMUEL G. WARD, Chairman. 



Butter and Cheese. 



The committee have been much gratified with the quantity 

 and quality of the dairy and other products, presented for their 

 consideration. The reputation of Berkshire, for butter and 

 cheese, will certainly be maintained, and defy competition, if 

 our farmers' wives and daughters continue to bestow the same 

 attention and skill now manifest in their management. Yet we 

 cannot forbear suggesting, that butter, for long keeping, requires 

 to have the butter-milk thoroughly worked out of it. It is a 

 mistaken notion, with some, that salt is the great preservative. 

 Butter, not thoroughly wrought, soon becomes rancid in warm 

 weather, even when salt is used in abundance. 



ALEXANDER HYDE, Chairman. 



