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two or three single portions of distinct lots, they are of good 

 quaUty ; most of them would be deserving of premiums, but 

 for a common defect, which the committee think was easily 

 discoverable — they have not that richness, which cheese made of 

 pure new milk always possesses, if the milk be good. The com- 

 mittee think that this defect may have resulted from a practice, 

 among our economical dairy women, said to have existed so 

 long as to be considered a prescriptive right, of taking, each 

 morning, from the night's milk, so called, cream enough for the 

 family breakfast, and yet considering it no misnomer to call 

 their cheese, neio milch cheese. Now, if the dairy was large, 

 and the family small, and the milk rich, a trifling abstraction 

 of cream, though not perfectly just, would seldom be percepti- 

 ble. But, in the reverse of these circumstances, it is very obvi- 

 ous, at least to all lovers of good cheese, that the difference, 

 thus made, might be reasonable cause for serious complaint. 

 Without intending the slightest reflection upon any one, the 

 committee deem it not improper to express the hope, that the 

 suggestion may not be disregarded by those who prepare this 

 article for premium, or for the market, but that they will make 

 it, in the truest sense of the term, what they call it, new milch 

 cheese. 



The committee have awarded all the premiums, at their dis- 

 posals, to the following competitors : — 



NeiD Cheese. 



Job Ranger, of New Braintree, Lot No. 10, 1st premium, |)8 



Azel L. Clark, " Lot No. 9, 2d " 6 



Jacob Wilson, of Spencer, Lot No. 5, 3d " 5 



Jason Wilson, of Rutland, Lot No. 4, 4th " 4 



DanforthK. Tufts, of New Braintree, Lot No. 1,5th " 2 



Old Cheese. 



Lorenzo Converse, of New Braintree, Lot No. 1, 1st premium, $6 

 John Hunter, " Lot No. 3, 2d " 4 



SAMUEL M. BURNSIDE, Chairman. 



