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STATEMENTS. 



E. R. EVANS. 



The 25 pounds of butter presented to the fair, is a fair sample of 

 the butter made from five cows in thirty days, commencing on the 

 14th of August, and ending on 13th of September, and in compliance 

 with the rules of the society, the cows fed upon grass only ; the milk 

 drawn from the cows on the 13th inst. measured 77 quarts and 1 

 pint, and weighed 157 ^ pounds, and the quantity of butter made in 

 30 days, w^eighed 217 pounds, the cows are of the Native breed, 

 one of them being a three year old heifer. The method of making the 

 butter as follows : about one pint of the strippins is saved, and put 

 into the cream, the milk is strained into pans, and stands from 36 

 to 48 hours, as the weather may require, and then is is skimmed and 

 churned in the old fashioned dash churn, attached to dog power; the 

 butter is worked with a ladle, and the milk is separated without the 

 aid of water. I use Liverpool salt, the quantity to suit the taste. 

 I use no saltpetre or any substance. 



Marcy, Oneida county, 1845. 



THOMAS AND NANCY HAWKS. 



We commenced making butter from five cows on the 15th of Au- 

 gust, without any extra feed of any kind; pastures very dry, after 

 feed no better. 



Quantity of butter made, 120 lbs. 



Quantity of milk, Sept. 10th, 48 qts. 



Weight, 96 lbs. 



The specimen presented was made the first week in Sept. Milk 

 kept in tin, until it begins to thicken under the cream, the cream 

 then removed, and kept 12 hours before churning, being stirred oc- 

 casionally, churned in a hand churn, the milk pressed out with a 

 hand ladle. 



The quantity of salt used has not been ascertained, supposed to 

 be nearly one ounce to a pound of butter, common barrel salt, dried 

 and rolled fine, is used, and no other substance whatever. 



The cows were owned by the subscriber previous to the 1st of 

 April 1845, are a mixture of Durham and Devonshire, and common 

 native breed ; 8 cows are kept. 



Columbia, Herkimer co. JV. Y. 



GEO. VAIL. 



To E. W. Bateman, Z. Barton Stout and Elijah Jones, Esqrs. 

 committee appointed to judge and award premiums on butter, " for 



