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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture awarded a gold medal to Joseph Mathewson of Coventry, Rhode-Island, for producing the greatest quantity of cheese (at least 500 pounds) on one farm. His 14 cheeses weighed 500 pounds, with his farm annually producing 5,000-6,000 pounds. One cheese was sent to the U.S. President as a specimen.
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The society directed one of the cheeses to be sent to the President of the United States-- as a specimen of the perfection to which the manufacture of cheese has attained in this country.
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Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island
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gold medal awarded; 14 cheeses weighed 500 pounds; farm annually produces 5 to 6000 pounds; one cheese sent to president of the united states
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Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture unanimously adjudged premium of Gold Medal for greatest quantity of cheese (not less than 500 pounds) made on one farm to Joseph Mathewson, Esq. of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode-Island