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twenty-four hours, at a temperature of 45°. Twelve hours is suflicient 

 tune for the cream to rise, but by setting longer the cream becomes 

 more compact, and a given bulk of it will make more butter. The 

 cream is drawn into tin cream cans and set in the dairy room at 

 about the temperature that the cream is desired to be for churning, 

 58° in summer and 04° in winter. It is allowed to set till " ripe," 

 or until it begins to sour, stirring carefull}- each night and morning 

 when now cream is added. The Davis swing churn is used, and 

 U9ually about forty minutes are required in which to comi)lete the 

 work. Tiie butter comes in small granules, which is the best form 

 for washing ; and at this stage the buttermilk is drawn off and the 

 butter is washed in two waters. It is then transferred to the butter 

 worker, the water pressed out and absorbed with a cloth, and salted 

 at the rate of one ounce of Ashton salt to a pound of butter. After 

 adding the salt it is worked no more than is necessary, care being 

 used not to injure the grain of the butter. It is then placed in a 

 Kinnerson tray acd printed, after which it is cut in pound squares, 

 each square containing four quarter pound prints. The butter then 

 is ready for customers, and is carried to them in a carrier containing 

 slide drawers. 



Discussion. 



Question. Would not the feeding of cotton seed meal in summer 

 improA'e the quality of the milk? 



Mr. Robinson. June grass ought to make it good enough. I 

 reckon 18| pounds of milk to make a pound of butter. When the 

 cow is not giving more than 10 or 15 pounds of milk a day, I don't 

 imagine it would take 18| pounds of it to make a pound of butter. 

 I notice in m}- whole dairy now it is not taking that amount. 



Question. In your experience, what is the comparative value of 

 cotton seed and Indian meals? 



Mr. Robinson. One cow didn't increase any in her milk on 

 Indian meal, but she increased over two pounds on cotton seed 

 meal. I tried my old cow last year on Indian meal, and then on 

 cotton seed. She gave enough more milk on cotton seed meal than 

 on Indian meal to pay for the cotton seed meal. I always find 

 ootton seed meal a good deal better than Indian meal. 



Mr. Starrett. I never tried cotton seed meal till last spring ; 

 but from my experience thus far I would as lief have one quart of 

 cotton seed meal as two of Indian, either for milk or flesh. 



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