. DAIRY.

The Committee on the Dairy report :

There were fifteen entries of Butter submitted to their inspection, three parcels of which the Committee considered very nice; some other parcels were very fair.

They award premiums as follows :—

1st premium, of $8, to parcel No. 4, belonging to Sarah L. Ridgway of West Newbury.

2d premium, of $6, to parcel No. 8, belonging to Mrs. F. Stiles of Middleton.

3d premium, of $4, to parcel No. 5, belonging to Mrs. Dean Holt of Andover.

So nearly equal were these specimens, that the Committee carefully compared them before deciding their relative merits.

There were seven entries of Cheese submitted to their inspection, neither of which the Committee thought merited the first premium, of $8. They therefore award premiums as follows:

2d premium, of $6, to parcel No. 5, belonging to Mrs. C. M. Moulton of West Newbury.

3d premium, of $4, to parcel No. 2, belonging to Mary P. Nelson of West Newbury.

There is more difficulty in deciding upon the merits of Cheese than upon the merits of Butter, for we have noticed that almost every man has his own likes and dislikes in relation to Cheese, and what one man would call very good, another might call very ordinary.

Those ladies who make good Butter and Cheese, deserve not only the small premium awarded to them by this Society, but also the thanks of the whole community. We wish that all of our young ladies, while they are learning to play the piano, would also learn to make good butter and cheese. You can please your husbands better with ordinary music and sweet butter, than with the sweetest music and rancid butter.

N. AMBROSE, for the Committee.

STATEMENT OF SARAH L. RIDGWAY.

I present for your inspection some September butter, made as follows:

As soon as the milk was brought in, it was strained into nicely scalded tin pans, and allowed to remain thirty-six hours in a well-ventilated cellar, then skimmed into tin pails and stirred morning and evening for three days, when it was churned, and immediately washed in cold water, and salted to the taste, with rock salt, and worked twice before being made into balls, as presented.

Butter will not be nice, unless properly worked and carefully attended to.

West Newbury, Sept. 24, 1861..

STATEMENT OF MRS. FARNHAM STILES.

I present for your inspection one box of September Butter, containg fifteen pounds.

PROCESS OF MAKING.-The milk is strained into well scalded tin pans, to the depth of about two inches, and set in a dry light cellar, remaining from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, according to weather; then skimmed, the cream kept in stone jars, and stirred every day. Before churning, the cream is brought to a temperature of 62 degrees; time taken in churning, about five minutes; the buttermilk is then poured off, and the butter washed with pure soft water; taken out and salted to taste; remaining twenty-four hours before being lumped.

Middleton, Sept. 24, 1861.

STATEMENT OF MRS. DEAN HOLT.

I present for your inspection sixteen pounds of September

Butter.

PROCESS OF MAKING.-Milk is strained into well scalded pans, and placed in a cool cellar, to stand from 36 to 48 hours;

it is then skimmed into stone pots, and stirred morning and evening. I churn twice a week. When the butter is taken from the churn, it is well washed with cold water; one ounce of rock salt to the pound is then added. After standing six or eight hours, it is worked over and left until the next morning, when it is again worked over into lumps, and put up for the market.

Audover, Sept. 24, 1861.

STATEMENT OF MRS. C. M. MOULTON.

I offer for premium four new milk Cheeses, made in the following manner :—

The evening milk is strained into a tub, and rennet added immediately; the rennet should be of sufficient strength to form the curd in thirty minutes, but it should not be broken up under one hour or more. After being carefully broken, it is dipped off and left to drain until morning. The process is repeated with the morning's milk. After that is broken, the evening's curd is sliced into it, the whole is then scalded with water; then thoroughly drain, chop fine, salt, and press twentyfour hours, then put in a dark room, turned and rubbed daily. West Newbury, Sept. 24, 1861.

STATEMENT OF MARY P. NELSON.

I present for your inspection four new milk Cheeses, two of which are sage. The process of making is as follows:

Strain the evening milk and add rennet in sufficient strength and quantity to form a curd; in about thirty minutes, break the curd, separate from the whey, and leave it to drain until morning; repeat this process with the morning milk, scald the curd with whey, drain, grind, salt with about eight ounces of salt to twenty pounds of cheese, and press twenty-four hours. West Newbury, Sept. 24, 1861.

FARM IMPLEMENTS.

The Committee on Farm Implements, in the absence of the Chairman, make the following report:

Whitcomb's patent Horse Rake, gratuity, $3.
Davis' patent Radiator, gratuity, $1.
Smith's Portable Laundry, gratuity, $1.

Metropolitan Clothes Wringer, gratuity, $1.

Haven & Whitten's Portable, Hot Air, Ventilating Furnace, gratuity, $1.

Blood's improved Coal Sifter, gratuity, 50 cents.

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Flour Sifter, gratuity, 50 cents.

Vose's Garden Engine, gratuity, $1.

One Family Carryall, by Chas. Brine, gratuity, $2.

One highly finished Hearse, presented by Charles Brine, gratuity, $3.

Respectfully submitted by

E. G. BERRY, for the Committee.

ARTICLES MANUFACTURED FROM LEATHER. The Committee award the following premiums :

To D. H. & C. Stickney of Groveland, for the best pair of thick Boots, the first premium, of $4.

Joseph Morrison of South Danvers, 2d premium, $2.

Hardy & Osborn of South Danvers, for thick sewed Brogans, the 1st premium, $2.

Nathaniel Whipple of Hamilton, for Men's Calf Shoes, the 1st premium, $2.

Also, the 1st premium for Ladies' Walking Shoes, $2.

S. Driver & Co. of Salem, for Kid Slippers, 1st premium, $1. Gratuity on Congress Boots, $1.

Gratuity on Ladies' Fancy Slippers, $1.

Alonzo Raddin of South Danvers, gratuity, for Ladies' Walking Shoes, $1.

Gratuity for Ladies' and Children's Shoes, $2.

D. H. & C. Stickney of Groveland, gratuity for Men's Calf Shoes, $1.

Gratuity for Women's Calf Dutch Boots, $1.

Mrs. Mary S. Potter of South Danvers, gratuity for Children's Shoes, $1.

Clark & Co., of South Danvers, gratuity for Binding Skins, $3.

John V. Stevens of South Danvers, gratuity for Kip Leather, $2.

The Committee consider the articles presented to be of the first quality, and well worthy of the premiums awarded.

The Committee would recommend that a premium be offered for Harnesses.

C. H. GOULD, Chairman.

PEARS.

Owing to the unprecedented weather and sudden changes at the close of the past winter, the pear tree suffered so severely that many doubts were expressed as to our being able to make any show of this fruit; and although one of our finest varieties, the Beurre Bosc, was not seen, still another, equally good, were never so fine and large. We refer to the Fondanite d' Autumn or Belle Lucrative. There were upon exhibition upwards of two hundred dishes and plates of pears.