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BREAD. 



Your Committee on Bread have to report that there were 

 91 entries. Every loaf was cut through with a very sharp 

 knife, separated and examined. Many loaves that presented a 

 handsome appearance enough for a prize before cutting, when 

 opened were rejected because of insufficient baking. Many 

 were rejected because they were your; others because they 

 were too sweet, containing an overplus of sugar, others re- 

 jected because they were too coarse and porous. 



After we awarded the three prizes. Dr. George B. Loring, 

 (the after dinner speaker of the day at the Fair,) happened in 

 the Secretary's room and we invited him in to see the bread ; we 

 asked him to state which of the three prize loaves he thought 

 was entitled to the highest premium. He examined each, 

 smelt, tasted and felt of them, and decided that loaf No. 3 

 should be the highest prize loaf, (the identical loaf we had 

 decided upon deserving the first prize.) It was a small loaf, 

 and we gave half of it to President Parks and placed the other 

 half, with the two other prize loaves, in the bread case ; but as 

 the Committee did not have at any time the keys in their pos- 

 session (because they could not be found), the cases could not 

 be locked, and in an hour or two after the first prize loaf was 

 deposited there, curiosity mongers opened the case and stole 

 most of it to taste and carry home 



To Mrs. E. O. Cooke, of Scituate, was awarded the special 

 prize of twenty-five dollars, given by Walton Hall, of Marsh- 



