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will continue a week or ten days longer, thus giving to our market a 

 first class berry ten days later than the older varieties. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



J. B. LYMAInT, 



J. E. SNODGRASS, 



A. B. CRANDELL, 



Committee. 



This report was accepted and Mr, Carpenter indorsed it by a spe- 

 cial statement in favor of the Romejm. He has it in his gardens, and 

 finds it a strong, thrifty, and valuable species. 



Early Rose Potatoes. 



Mr. AYm. S. Carpenter showed potatoes larger than hens' eggs, 

 thirty-nine days from planting. The Club were unanimous that no 

 other early potato shows such vigor and thrift. 



Important to Dairymen. 



Mr, M. F. Potter of Kanesville, Illinois, showed the Club a combi- 

 nation for cooling milk as soon as it leaves the udder, to the tempera- 

 ture of forty or fifty degrees. The results in superior cheese, first- 

 class butter, and delightful milk from subjecting milk to this process 

 are surprising and challenge attention from all the milk pi'oducers 

 and consumers of the country, and this includes tlie whole popula- 

 tion. The Chair appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. J. B. 

 Lyman, W. S. Carpenter, and Mr. Whitney, to goto some dairy farm 

 and experiment with the apparatus of Mr. Potter, patented by Wat- 

 son Peck, and report to the Club the result of their trial. 



The regular hour for the paper of the day having arrived. Dr. 

 J. V. C. Smith took the stand, and read the following, on 



The Natural History of the Cow. 



Domestic comfort is associated with the idea of a cow. How largely 

 milk contributes to good living — light bread, excellent butter, custards, 

 cakes, puddings, and rich cream for coffee cannot be had without milk 

 of the first quality, which is now a desideratum in Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia, and many other cities. They pay large sums for Cochi- 

 tuate, Croton, and Fairmount water delivered daily from milk carts, 

 besides that which is received through lead pipes into their apartments. 

 Ko one in his senses ■would presume to question the dietetic virtues 

 of milk. It is the food provided, for the newly-born animal, from 



