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duced 2,948 lbs. of milk, or 1,165 quarts li pint, yielding 105 

 lbs. 14 oz. of butter, and 138 lbs. 8 oz. cheese. The whole 

 product of the season was — butter, 772 lbs. ; new milk cheese, 

 1,251 1 lbs. ; skim milk, 580^ lbs. Mr. Ellswortli gives the fol- 

 lowing as his process of manufacture : " My manner of making 

 butter is to set the milk in tin pans, about half full, in a 

 warm room, in winter, with good air ; let the milk stand about 

 forty-eight hours, then take off the cream, put in stone jars with 

 a little salt, and stir thoroughly every day until churned. After 

 churning, draw off the buttermilk and wash in two waters, then 

 salt to the taste ; let it stand twenty-four hours, then worked 

 by hand and put in stone jars, and cover it closely from the air. 

 In the summer, the milk is set in a cool place, the cream in 

 stone jars in the cellar, and the butter made in the same man- 

 ner as above." 



The extraordinary yield of Mr. Ellsworth's cows, considering 

 the ages of two of them, and the length of time in which others 

 had been in milk, will justify giving his full account of their 

 keeping. " From November 15 to May 15, the cows were kept 

 in the stable, except when turned out to water. Their food was 

 English hay and straw mixed, also corn fodder through the 

 month of December. Extra hay, a peck of English turnips each, 

 January. English hay and half peck of carrots each, February. 

 Hay and half peck of potatoes each, until the 15th of March; 

 then one quart dry Indian meal per day to each cow, with half 

 peck of potatoes ; then the same quantity of meal, with cut hay 

 wet, to the time of turning to pasture, and no extra feed after. 

 The cows were turned to after feed of the mowing about 

 August 10th. No extra feed while in the pasture." 



The largest yield of milk by either of Mr. Ellsworth's cows, 

 for the first three days of any month, was in July, by " Cream- 

 pot," 6 years old, one-fourth Durham — 55 quarts 1| pint — 

 and the greatest quantity given by his six cows in the first three 

 days of either month, was 224 quarts in August. 



Asa G. Sheldon, of Wilmington, entered six cows, of the 

 respective ages of 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 years, kept together in a 

 herd of eight, all native but one, and that one native, with a 

 cross of Durham — three of them raised by himself. 



