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with the yolk of an egg and butter, and turn it every day till it 

 is dry for market." 



Statement of Henry Fairhrother. " I have but two cows in 

 my dairy. In addition to hay and straw, I give my cows a few 

 roots. I churn the cream only. After working out the butter- 

 milk, I put in one and one-half ounce of salt, three table-spoon- 

 fuls of loaf sngar, and one tea-spoonful of saltpetre, to ten 

 pounds of butter. My cows average seven pounds of butter 

 per week." 



F. R. Dinsmore of Hartland, Ellis Fish of St. Albans, and C. 

 B. Stinchfield, all describe nearly the same mode of procedure 

 in the manufacture of both butter and cheese as above. The 

 first had only a Durham heifer, and she averaged fifteen quarts 

 of milk per day, and during the months of June and July eigh- 

 teen quarts, and during the week ending September 27th, he 

 made from her milk eight pounds of butter, she having no feed 

 but grass. Mr. Fish had but two cows. He makes cheese only 

 during the hot weather. From their milk he made seventy-five 

 pounds of cheese per month. Mr. Stinchfield is particular to 

 have his milk set in a cool, airy place, but "not in a cellar." 

 He washes his butter in cold water, and is careful to have his 

 cheese put to press cold. He made a cheese from six days 

 milk of two cows, weighing twenty-two pounds, beside supply- 

 ing milk for the use of a family of eight persons." 



Vegetables. 



Warren Fuller raised a crop of ruta baga turnips on a yellow 

 loam, plowed six inches deep, manured with green manure at 

 the'^rate of six cords to the acre, on which he received a pre- 

 mium. The ground was plowed in the fall of 1855. The 

 manure was applied in the spring, and harrowed in. The seed 

 was sown in drills, three feet apart. Raised at the rate of 

 eight hundred and ninety-six bushels to the acre. 



J. P. Roberts raised a crop of carrots and onions on a sandy 



loam, and received the first premium on the onions, and the 



second on the carrots. The land was taken up from grass in 



1855, seven loads of manure applied on one-eiglith of an acre, 



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