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it is well known that the appearance of an article goes far 

 towards the selling of it. 



We would suggest that the society furnish their com- 

 mittee in the future with a scale of points, by which to 

 judge the exhibit. It would assist the committee in their 

 duties and at the same time could be made of service to 

 the exhibitors, showing them wherein their butter was de- 

 fective. Further we would suggest that the society request 

 a more extended statement from the exhibitor than is now 

 usually made, the statement being too frequently a per- 

 functory affair containing little of real merit, and not in 

 keeping with the intent of the society when it offered 

 so liberal a premium as is given in this department. 



We found but one competitor for the premium to be 

 awarded for the statement showing the largest quantity of 

 butter from any quantity of milk, the product of a single 

 cow, that of Mr. Oscar Gowen, of West Newbury. His 

 statement shows that the milk from a grade Ayrshire cow 

 produced one lb. butter from less than sixteen lbs. of milk, 

 the feed being pasture and two quarts of meal. This is a 

 very commendable showing. As the statement was not, in 

 the opinion of your committee, so explicit and extended as 

 was desired, it was decided to award the second premium of 

 four dollars. 



Your committee found entered upon their book several 

 lots of eggs. This was found to be according to the in- 

 structions of the society. As the premiums aie offered un- 

 der the poultry department, tliat committee acting upon the 

 grounds a mile away from the hall and with no notice that 

 such entries had been made in their department, they could 

 not be expected to pass upon them. Your committee, there- 

 fore, under instructions from the society awarded upon this 

 exhibit. We found several plates of 13 eggs ; as the rules 

 call for but 12 we were obliged to pass several of them, and 

 the others were judged with the knowledge that the com- 

 mittee wei'e acting in a department foreign to them. We 

 can hardly understand the need of this offer upon eggs. 



