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EXTRACT FROM CLINTON COUNTY REPORT. 

 THOMAS CROOK. 



Awarded first premium^ Clinton county. 



I hereby state that this butter was made between the 20th May and 

 20th June, 1845. 



The cows are a cross of the Ayrshire, Devonshire and Durham 

 breeds, with the best selected common breed. 



The number of cows milked was nine ; they all being fed in winter 

 on the best of hay as much as they would eat 5 in the spring about 

 the time of calving well fed in addition with turneps and potatoes for 

 about six weeks, and in summer kept in first rate pasture supplied 

 with water. 



The cows are milked at five o'clock in the morning and at six in- 

 the evening, and the milk immediately strained into clean tin pans, 

 and set in a clean cool pantry, until the cream shall rise, when it is 

 carefully skimmed off and put in stone jars until the time of churning^ 

 which is every second morning. The only thermometer used was a 

 neat, tidy, practical dairy woman, of good judgment and of expe- 

 rience. 



The cream is churned in a patent half-round churn with paddles^,, 

 and a half-round cover to shut on the top. 



The buttermilk is separated from the butter by being drawn from 

 the churn through a faucet in the end of the churn, and then care- 

 fully worked with a ladle until it is entirely freed from every particle 

 of the buttermilk. It is then salted with the best fine ground Liver- 

 pool salt sufficiently to suit the taste, and set by for twenty-four hours, 

 when it is again carefully worked a second time with the ladle, and a 

 little more salt added, and well worked in. It is then laid down 

 within about two inches of the top of the tub, and the tub then im- 

 mediately filled with a strong, clean, cool brine, well skimmed, so as 

 entirely to exclude the butter from the action of the air. 



The whole quantity of butter made from these nine cows from the 

 first of May to the first of September, was 771 pounds, and the cheese 

 made during the same time from them was 300 pounds, being about 

 85 pounds 11 ounces each of butter, and 33i pounds each of cheese^. 



R. O. BARBER. 



Awarded second premium, Clinton co. 



Statement according to the rules of the society, concerning the 

 accompanying butter. 



The dairy consists of eight cows of the common breed. 



The above cows are kept in a stable, well cleaned, from the com- 

 mencement of feeding them until they are turned out to pasture, andj 



