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In the absence of Mr. W. D. Collyer, who had acted as 

 judge of the butter on exhibition, Mr. Patch, of Boston, was 

 called upon to speak about the exhibit. 



Mr. Patch : Mr. Collyer went away without leaving me 

 any pointers, so I will have to tell you merely what I have 

 learned in a casual way. I wish to say to you people who had 

 butter at this exhibit here that you can well be proud of every 

 tub of it. I was with Mr. Collyer in the afternoon, and there 

 was only one tub that had any appearance of being unmarket 

 able or out of order, and our attention was so closely called 

 to it that we made a little closer investigation, and it certainly 

 had been tipped over some time and the cover, not being nailed 

 on, the cover had come off, and the express people, in picking 

 it up, had put in more dirt than was necessary on top of the 

 cloth, so that that party having that butter would have lost 

 nothing if a little attention had been given the package. As 

 far as the general quality of the butter exhibited is concerned, 

 it certainly was fine. I remarked to Mr. Collyer yesterday 

 afternon that there was not a tub of butter there except that 

 one of which I speak but what either one of us would have 

 been glad to have in our stores, and we would have been able 

 to get very near the top price. I feel like saying to you gentle- 

 men that any butter at this season of the 3^ear that scored 

 above 93, you may well be proud of, and anything that scored 

 less than 93 you must consider was something that might be 

 off in this individual case. You may have just as good a 

 butter maker as another, but in this case, he might have been 

 a little careless; for instance, there were one or two tubs of 

 butter there that almost tasted as if there was no salt put 

 in it; there was a lack of salt and a lack of flavor, of course. 

 There was now and then a package there that the grain was 

 off, but very few, and any of you whose butter scored 95 up to 

 the highest, 98J, you may all be mighty proud of. 



In scoring butter, of course the first thing the judge has 

 to get at is the flavor, and there are some tubs which have s. 

 very quick flavor, and a little closer investigation by the mouth 

 will reveal a little too much salt. Sometimes we can discover 

 that salt at once, sometimes it will be after holding it in the 

 mouth and sometimes again by biting into it as we would be 

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