The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-10-31
BUTTER AND CHEESE

COMMITTEE John NJ Earle of Worcestay
Gnalrman; Seth Davenport of Mendon, S;ias
Wesson OF Westborough, Francis Carruth Of
NORM Brookheld, Benjamin Butman of Wor-
ces:er.
The Committee appointed 10 award the nre.
miums offered by the Society on Butter and
Cheese, having attended to the duties of their
appointment, Report;
nat 10 Lots OF Butter were offered for pre.
MUM, amounting IN the whole to 423 lbs. nv
the following persons, viz Francis Grout, Eli.
sha Flagg, John Barnard, and Silas Bailey of
Worcester; Timothy E. Fitch, widow PATTY
Sawyer. Samuel Sawyer, and Richard Hi.
dreth OF Sterling; Daniel Bacon and Ethan
Holden OF Barre; Samuel Chamberlain and
Luther Chamberlain of Westborougb; Henry
S5Prague of Princeton ; Levi Goodale of West
Boylston and Simon fainter of Mllburv,
Most oil these lots we're of excellent QUALITY.
and, by themselves might have been consider.
ed as OF the very first rate and the slight su
perIorIty OF one over the other could be
detected only by careful comparison Your
Committee, as the result of such comparison.
were agreed to recommend that the first pre.
nium OF 81 should be awarded to box No. II
belonging to Luther Chamberlain OF Westboro,
From the certificate which accompanied this
lot, the Committee learn, that in the dairy
from which IT was taken, there have been made
from the first day Of June 10 the first dav Of
October, the product Of 81 cows, from 100 10
$50 lbs. OF Butter per week, and, in the whole.
between FIVE and six thousand lbs of Cheese
The whole labor of manufacturing and TAX
ing care OF this Butter and Cheese, has been
done by one person. with the exception ofsome
help in taking the Cheese from the shelves to
be dressed, and in laying it back again.
The second premium of So it was unani.
mously agreed to recommend to be awarded 10
box No. 3, belonging to Francis Grout of Wor.
cester, and containing % lbs. The number of
cows kept by him the whole Of this season. has
been FIVE, and a part of the time six From
the first of June to the first of October, he has
made All lbs. of Butter, and $50 lbs of Cheese.
For the third premium of 81 we recommend
10 the Society entry No. !, being a firkin of
very superior Butter from the dairy of Henry
Sprague OF Princeton. Had the premiums been.
confined TO hrkin Butter, this would have dis.
tanced any competition. Mr. Sprague keeps
80 cows, and made Cheese exclusively till the
goth of September, except enough Butter for
the use of his family. Since that time he has
averaged about 30 lbs per day
We recommend that the fourth premium of
SO be awarded to Richard Hidreth of Ster.
ling, for box No. 10 We learn from his GER.
tfcate, that he has kept II cows the present
season, from which he has made, between the
first of June and the first of October, 1850 lbs.
of Butter.
The fourth premium would have been award.
ed to widow Patty Sawyer of Sterling, had the
certificate, required by the Trustees, been dulv
filed. But, constituting this regulation, as zoe
understand at, to be imperative, we passed her
lot by and recommend that the premiums be
awarded as above.
The entries of Cheese much exceed those of
any former exhibition, amounting in the whole
to 1884 pounds, from 60 different diaries.
After careful and patient examination, we
have agreed. unanimously, TO recommend that
the premiums be awarded as follows:
To Daniel Bacon of Barre, for lot No. 9. Of
~ Cheeses, weighing $50 lbs, the LIST premi
UNI of $40.
To D. K. Tufts of New Braintree, for 10,
No. 46, of 4 Cheeses, weighing 1875 lbs, the q
premium of 81.
To Isaac Tucker of Barre, for lot No. 81. q
Cheeses, weighing l2l lbs, the Sd premium
| of SIS.
To Dwight Billings of Hardwick, for lot No
| 3d. OF Cheeses, weighing l24 lbs, the 4tl
premium of SO.
We think it due TO the competitors to state
that the lots to which we have awarded In
trst and second premiums, were so nearly O
equal quality, that, on the first examination
there was not an entire unanimty in the Com
mittee, as to which the first premium shout
be given, but, in the end, there was no disa
greement in opinion, on any one of the premi
ums.
Four lots Of old Cheese were offered, an,
your committee feel themselves hound to say
that it the offer of the Society be literally con
strued, IT would probably haves led them I