98 T It A X S A C X I >' s . 



To these hens, he fed during the year, food worth $39.45, consist- 

 ing of corn, potatoes, meat and bone-meal. The whole number of 

 eggs produced was 5451, which were sold for $60.79. The receipts 

 for poultry sold, were $30-28, amounting to $91.07. If from this 

 sum, Ave subtract the whole expense for feed, we have in round num- 

 bers $51.62, as the clear profit on the S23.25, the capital invested. 

 We are aware that we have not estimated the interest ; neither have 

 we spoken of the item of manure, which must have been an import- 

 ant one, and, if added to the seventy-five cents in our favor at the 

 close of the year, would pay the interest on the capital invested and 

 swell the amount of clear profit very considerably. 



We perhaps ought, also, to state that the expense of the outfit 

 was next to nothing. 



In view of facts like the above, we feel ourselves justified in call- 

 ing the attention of farmers to the importance of giving more atten- 

 tion to this subject. It must be apparent to every one, that the 

 profit in proportion to the amount invested by Mr. Warner, was 

 enormous. Whether others would be alike successful, experiment 

 alone can determine. 



KEPORT ON BUTTER. 



BY T. G. HUXTINGTOX. 



The committee appointed to examine and report on Butter, be- 

 came, at an early stage of iheir proceedings, fully impressed with the 

 difficulty of doing justice to the charge committed to them. To de- 

 cide justly on the relative merits of the lots entered for exhibition, it 

 will be readily concadcd, was no easy task ; especially when all are 

 supposed, by the exhibitors at least, to be of the first quality. To 

 come to a decision which should be universally satisfactory, was not 

 to be thought of, or hoped for, indeed. Even if we had granted 

 prizes to every lot, we doubt whother our course would have found 

 more favor, than the one we have adopted. 



We beg leave to assure those of our competitors, who have not 

 been successful, that the whole thing is a mere matter of taste. This 

 is true. Though we would by no means have it understood, that we 



