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inferior articles, much inferior to the foreign, and vastly so to the 

 Dutch. The sales abroad prove all this plainly enough. In 1840 

 and 1841, the sales in England were for American butter, highest 

 price 95 shillings per 100 cwt,, and down to 45, 44, and to 40 shil- 

 lings; while at the same time, Dutch butter sold for 110 to 120 shil- 

 lings! The greater part of our exported butter, being mere grease 

 and poor grease too ! We must take more pains, as much for export 

 as for our own eating. How is this improvement to be made? By 

 taking the same pains that they do in Ireland, England and Scotland, 

 They use the utmost care in every stage of the process, being in 

 everything extremely clean and neat; no tainting smell of any sort 

 is tolerated near their dairies. They work the butter in pure cold 

 water, so thoroughly that not a particle is left except pure butter, 

 until the water it is washed in, runs off as pure as spring water. 

 They do all this with clean wooden ladels, and not with their 

 hands ! 



We have taken more pains with our cheese, and it has gained re- 

 putation abroad, and we ought to sustain and increase that reputa- 

 tion. Much depends on the feed of cows, and we must attend to 

 this. Let them have rich pastures, and feed at their ease, and choose 

 their feed. Pumpkins and cabbages are fine food for them until the 

 holydays, then feed them carrots; there is nothing equal to carrots 

 for making fine milk and butter, it is nearly equal to fresh summer 

 pasture in quality and in quantity, and in this we have the advantage 

 of all Europe in the quantities we readily produce. 



J. Moulton, of Rochester, presented some very fine apples called 

 the Northern Spy apple. 



June 15th, 1847. 

 Charles Henry Hall in the Chair. 



INTERESTING AGRICULTURAL FACTS. 



BT H. MEIGS, ESQ. 



The care of enlighted and patriotic men has caused the introduc- 

 tion of precious plants and animals into countries which had never 

 since creation, before possessed them. 



Luculliis first introduced cherries into Italy, from Pontus, and he 

 first planted them in his princely garden in Rome, where they have 

 ever since flourished, as greatly as they had done in Pontus. 



