64 ON THE DAIRY. 



For the premiums offered for Cheese, by Daniel P. 

 Stevens, of Andover, Benjamin Bojnton, of Andover, 

 Mrs. Lucy Osgood, of Andover. 



Having examined with care the several specimens ex- 

 hibited, and the statements accompanying them, the 

 Committee unanimously agreed in recommending that 

 the premiums be awarded as follows : 



To Wm R. Putnam, for June butter, 1st prem. $'10 00 



David S. Caldwell, " " 2d do 8 00 



Nathaniel Felton, " " 3d do 6 00 



To Nathaniel Felton, for Sept. butter, 1st prem. 10 00 



David Hiddon, " " 2d do 8 00 



Wm. R. Putnam, " " 3d do 6 00 



Gardner B. Perry, " "a gratuity 2 00 



To Daniel P. Stevens, for Cheese, 1st prem. 10 00 



Benjamin Boynton, " " 2d do 8 00 



Mrs. Lucy Osgood, " " a gratuity, 2 00 



Amounting to $10 00 



When we take into view the liberal appropriations an- 

 nually made by the Society, to encourage improvement 

 in the management of Dairies, it is to be regretted that 

 the competition at our exhibition is so limited. True it 

 is, that there is usually a sufficient number of claimants 

 to take the premiums offered, and the articles exhibited 

 are of a quality worthy of the premiums awarded, but still 

 there is manifested a failure to meet the desi2;n for which 

 the premiums are offered. Every body is more or less in- 

 terested in the making of good butter and cheese. To 

 the farmer they are among the best sources of his income, 

 to all others the habitual use has made these articles al- 

 most essential as necessaries of life. Who in this com- 

 munity, when in health, passes a day of his life without 

 the use of butter in some of its forms of culinary prepar- 

 ations ? Is it not then of great importance that the best 

 method of making an article so generally used, should be 

 known and observed ? And should not the premiums of- 

 fered by our Agricultural Societies be the means of elic- 

 iting this information ? In the hopes of acquiring infor- 



