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inittee gave the most patient inspection, and applied all 

 the various tests at their command. 



They award premiums as follows : 

 First premium of 10 00 to parcel No. 2, belonging to Chas. 



P. Preston, North Danvers. 

 Second premium of 8 00, to parcel No. 4, belonging to Jon- 

 athan Berry, Middleton. 

 Third premium of 6 00 to parcel No. 3, belonging to Chas. 

 P. Preston, North Danvers. 



There were two parcels of Cheese entered which in the 

 opinion of the Committee were not of that " decidedly su- 

 perior quality," which the rules of the Society require to en- 

 title either parcel to a premium. The Committee would 

 suggest the inquiry, whether the interest of an improved 

 and progressive agriculture like that of Essex County, is to 

 be further advanced by the present system of premiums for 

 the Dairy. Encircled as is our County by a number of 

 prosperous cities — and fiHing up as are all our towns, with 

 a busy and thriving population, denser than any other of 

 equal extent in the United States — can we, by any premi- 

 ums which this Society may offer, induce our farmers, with 

 the present and rapidly increasing demand for milk, to go 

 extensively into the production of Butter or Cheese ? Your 

 Committee think not ; and that the time has come for a re- 

 vision of your Dairy premiums. 



For the Committee, Richard P. Waters. 



JONATHAN BERRY'S STATEMENT. 



I present for your inspection a box of butter containing 

 sixteen pounds, being a sample of 620 pounds and 435 quarts 

 of milk, equal to 50 pounds of butter, making 670 pounds of 

 butter made from seven cows, between the 20th May, and 



