Reports of Committees. 



Worsted Embroidery, Miss Clara Forbes of Sheffield, 1 00 



Worsted Crochet, Miss Augusta Griffith of Sheffield, 1 00 



EVARTS SCUDDER, ] 



Mrs S M Smith, [committee. 



Miss Mary Iownsend, } 

 Mrs. Silas Dewey, 



BUTTER, 



Your committee have examined with much care the 41 samples of butter 

 presented, most of which were of very good quality, while but few perhaps 

 could be pronounced strictly prime. We find two prominent faults — over- 

 working, which injures the grain of the butter, and oversaving which im- 

 pairs its flavor. We award as follows : 



For best butter, II W. Canfield of Sheffield, $8 00 



2d do., E. R. Joyner of Egremont, 7 00 



3d do., E. M. Winchell of Great Harrington, 00 



4th do., Myron Allen of New Marlboro. 5 00 



5th do., W. W. Langdon of Monterey, • 4 00 



6th do., J. M. Mackie of Great Barrington, 3 00 



7th do., Mrs. Laura Langdon of Lee, 2 00 



8th do.; Daniel E. Giddmgs of Great Barringon, 1 00 



From the nature of our soil and climate, dairying must from necessity 

 continue to be a prominent branch of our farming, and it is doubtless one 

 of the most remunerative. Within the past few years a great improvement 

 has been made in the quality of our butter, still a large class of producers 

 make far from a really prime quality. Your committee advance this 

 opinion with great diffidence knowing full well that our good housekeepers 

 are sensitive on this point and seldom countenance a disparaging criticism on 

 their butter, for their opinion is that they always make about the best 

 article anywhere to be found. But the facts are, in any given number of 

 dairies we shall find too great disparity in the qualities, and when marketed 

 we frequently find from five to ten cents a pound difference from the high- 

 est to the lowest price obtained. 



The difference to be found in the quality of our various dairies is owing 

 in part perhaps to conditions over which the butter maker has not entire 

 control. Such as an inferior dairy, poor water, indifferent pastures, un- 

 favorable conveniences for manufacture &c. These should be remedied as 

 far as possible. 



It is believed that a friendly competition and criticism, a frequent compar- 

 ing of sales and an honest endeavor to correct mistakes, will bring up the 

 products of our dairies to a standard that may not be easily excelled. 



George W. Lester, J 

 Eli Smith, > Committee. 



Dyer Stanard, ) 



