154 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



In 1881, I made from four cows and one two 3'ears' heifer, 1,491 

 pounds 10 ounces butter, and 100 pounds cheese, besides the milk 

 and cream used in family. 



The present year, 1882, I have had four cows, one three years' 

 heifer, which came in Jul}' 1st and suckled calf till August 1st, and 

 one heifot" which dropped her calf June lotli, at fourteen and one- 

 half months old. P^stimating the amount for the fifteen days of the 

 year 3'et remaining, I have made the following pounds of butter : 



January 104 pounds, 11 ounces. 



February 02 '' 1 " 



March 145 " 15 " 



April .121 " 14 



May 130 " 5 



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 June 153 '^ 3 " 



Julv 117 " 14 



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August V2C) '• " 



September 106 '' 3 " 



October 126 " 8 " 



November 110 " 13 "^ 



December 123 " 12 " 



Total, 1,459 pounds, 3 ounces; and have sold sweet and sour 

 milk to the amount of $30.14. 



I kept an accurate account for two weeks of the cost of keeping. 

 It cost fifteen cents a day to keep a dr^- cow on hay ; on poor ha}-^ 

 and turnips, twelve cents ; on poor ha}' and cotton seed meal, eleven 

 cents. The cost of keeping a new milch cow was as follows : 



20 pounds ha}' 12 cents, 



3 pounds shorts 3| cents, 



2| pounds cotton seed meal. . . 5 cents — 20| cents. 



Milk Maid gave in one j'ear 8,432 |wunds of milk. In the month 

 of June, when she was giving an average of 37 pounds a day, she 

 made 14 pounds butter in seven da3s, taking l.s| pounds milk for 

 one of butter. If her milk averaged as rich in cream the year 



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through — and I see no reason why it should not — it would give 453 

 pounds butter for the 3'ear. 



^Irs. Robinson gives the following method of making butter : The 

 milk is strained through a tin strainer and through a double cloth, 

 the cloth being placed at the bottom of the strainer and secured b}' 

 a tin band, and is set in a Coolev creamerv. It is allowed to stand 



