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salt. The butter should be packed snugly in tlie firkin or jar, covered with a 

 cloth, and then with the proper cover of the vessel. It should be kept in a dry 

 and cool place. If it be kept in the cellar, it may be elevated a little from the 

 floor by pieces of wood, to prevent its imbibing the moisture, and, consequently, 

 the taint of the floor. There are but few cellars that will keep butter well through 

 the summer. In the vicinity of a market it is best to sell it as it is manufactured, 

 and not incur the hazard of damage by keeping it on hand. Still, it must often 

 happen that no immediate sale can be eft'ected, and then the judgment and expe- 

 rience will be called into exercise, to preserve the butter from spoiling. As I 

 have little or no experience myself, on this point, I forbear to ofter advice lest I 

 might mislead unintentionally those who might follow it. One thing only I will 

 observe, that no matter how well the butter is made in other respects, if butter- 

 milk is left in it, there is always a liability to become rancid and offensive. 

 Salting will not prevent its spoiling, unless it is made so salt as hardly to be 

 eatable. Nor will all the care you may use in packing and storing, keep it from 

 that deterioration which is sure to arise from the latent buttermilk. 



To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



THE NORTH-WEST FOR FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES. 

 By F. K. Phcenix, Dklavan Nursery. 



Fruit is not only one of the greatest luxuries, but one of the chiefest neces- 

 saries of life — hence, fruit-growing is intrinsically one of the noblest, most 

 important of all arts or occupations — whether viewed theoretically or practically, 

 in the light of history or science — every where we find it indissolubly linked 

 with the main-spring, the fountain-head of all human accomplishment — life 

 AND health — and hence an integral part of the great first problem of human 

 sustenance. 



Fruit-growing has been seriously neglected among us — hence we have suffered 

 socially, physicall}', and pecuniarily, in consequence — and must continue to sufler 

 until this prime want shall be supplied. The direct annual tax, self-imposed upon 

 us of the North-West, for green and dried fruit, cannot be less than -1^300,000, 

 which even then procures us not one-twentieth part of a supply — thus leaving, 

 with all this great outlay, the popular demand unsatisfied — producing an immense 

 amount of indirect but not less positive sufl'ering and loss in the way of discon- 



