THE DAIRY. 117 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of Mr. A. W. Ckeever. 



The box of butter presented by me for your inspection is a 

 part of a churning- of thirty-four pounds made by me on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday of this week. Just one week's cream was 

 brought to the temperature of 63°, by trial and not by guess. 

 Found the cream 5° too cold, and brought it up by fire heat, 

 stirring constantly while warming. Churned moderately about 

 one hour. Could have churned a less quantity in the same churn 

 in less time. When the butter was well gathered in the churn, 

 the milk was drawn off, and a bucket of cold water put in place 

 of it, in which the butter was churned a few minutes. It was 

 then taken on to a table, or worker, where the milk was pressed 

 out before salting. Three-quarters of an ounce of salt was then 

 worked in, by lever power, to each pound of butter. After 

 standing eighteen hours, it was again brought under the lever, 

 and the brine and milk all worked out that could be. How 

 much there is left, you will, of course, judge. It was then 

 immediately moulded and dropped into the box, as you see it 

 ready for market. 



The feed used by the cows is green corn-fodder, hay and 

 grain, in the proportion of about three-quarters corn, one-eighth 

 dry hay and one-eighth grain, consisting of two quarts of meal 

 and three quarts of shorts. The cows are turned out to drink 

 and exercise about three hours in the middle of the day. Com- 

 menced feeding corn August 1st ; shall have enough from one 

 acre to last two months for eight cows. Planted it at seven or 

 eight different times, till July 3d, at the rate of forty kernels 

 per foot, in rows three feet apart. Very little has topped out, 

 and next to none is wasted. The earlier plantings were hoed ; 

 the later was cultivated only. The ground was very thoroughly 

 worked before planting, and manured quite liberally. As I 

 make butter all the year round, and do not let my cows calve 

 oftener than once in eighteen months, so that those that come 

 in, in the spring, shall not come in again till the second autumn 

 after, I cannot obtain so large an average from my whole dairy 

 during the summer months, as if 1 had my cows all come in 

 together in the spring. 



The amount of butter sold from May 25th to September 22d, 



