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If the chairman or any of tho committee desire to make 

 an extended report afterwards, he knows the award part of 

 it is completed and on file, and time need only be taken for 

 a report on the exhibits and snggestions for improvement 

 in that department. I would suggest, in this connection, 

 that all reports of committees, statements made in regard 

 to stock, crops, or any other matter connected with the 

 society be written on one side only of the paper, as when 

 written on both sides, it all has to be re-written by the 

 Secretary for the Printer's use. 



Thanking the Society for their confidence in promoting 

 me to the honorable and responji^ible office of Secretary, so 

 long and ably filled by Mr. Preston, 1 will give to it my 

 best abilities, I can promise no more and I certainly should 

 not do less. Respectfully submitted, 



David W. Low, 



Supt. of Hall. 



DAIRY. 



The Committee on Dairy have attended to their duty, and 

 respectfully report to the Secretary that they have made the 

 following awards : 



110. First premium, to Daniel H. Hale, Rowley, for butter. 

 18. Second premium, to M. B. Chesley, Amesbury, for 



butter. 

 $6. Third premium to Thomas Walton, Haverhill, for 

 butter. 

 Geo. B. Blodgett, Alden C. Estes, James D. Pike, Mrs. 

 Chas. J. Perley. — Committee. 



STATEMENT OF DANIEL H. HALE. 



I enter for premium twelve pounds of butter, made in 

 the following manner : — The butter was made from milk of 



