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Concerning tlie samples exhibited, they say—“the lot of fresh butter 
exhibited by Mr. Cory is of superior quality, and reflects much credit 
upon the maker. The sample of June butter also exhibited by Mr. Cory 
is a very good article; and though all the buttermilk has evidently been 
worked out, and the butter is sweet, still there is a peculiar taste to it 
that is not right, and results from exposure to the air, or is caused by 
being kept in a poor cellar. Of the other samples on exhibition, one was 
not sufficiently worked, and one was too much salted. The Committee 
are well aware that this important branch of domestic husbandry was not 
duly represented at this Annual Fair of the Society, and they hope, for 
the credit of the State and the dairymen in it, that hereafter there will be 
larger exhibitions of the products of this department. The representa¬ 
tions from the dairy are exhibited with little other expense than that of 
transportation, which is more than counterbalanced by the advantage of a 
market, for there is no place where premium or good butter commands 
so high a price, or meets with so ready a sale as it does at the Fairs— 
either State or County; and where can the maker become so generally 
known? Butter of as good quality (if not quantity) can be made in 
Wisconsin, if the same labor is bestowed and care is expended upon it, 
as can be made in the States of New York or Ohio, and will command 
as good prices here as the article does there, just as soon as the maker's 
reputation is as well established. 
“ That, as a State for extensive dairy purposes, Wisconsin is not as 
well adapted as some of the Eastern States, the Committee will not deny, 
but when connected with the other branches of farming, we contend that 
the making of butter in this State, pays as large a profit for the capital 
invested and the labor bestowed as in any other ; indeed unless some of 
the products are consumed on the farm and returned to the land by way 
of manure, the profits will soon be on the wrong side of the ledger, and 
the owner have a worn out tract of land as a legacy for his children. 
“ One of the disadvantages in this State, for an extensive dairy busi¬ 
ness, is the severe droughts to which we are annually subjected, and 
which operate especially against the successful manufacturing of cheese, 
which, to insure success, requires a large number of cows, and as near 
as can be equal quantities and qualities of milk ; but the making of butter 
©an be carried on with profit on a smaller scale, because the butter from 
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