Butter Making. 87 



BUTTER MAKING. 



BY C4. S. FASSETT, OF ENOSBURGH. 



The object the dairyman has in view in all his labors, is to 

 accumulate property, or, at least, to secure a good and suffi- 

 cient living, and it should be tlie second thought to accom- 

 plish all the possible good he can. You will, no doubt, 

 agree with me, when I say, the profits of the ordinary butter 

 dairy ai-e not very large. To increase the profits, some plan 

 must be devised to make more butter from each cow, and so 

 improve the quality as that it will command more remune- 

 rative prices. It is not my intention to write an exhaustive 

 paper on tliis subject, if I were able, but to make some sug- 

 gestions, which may be practicable and of use to butter 

 makers. 



I would not recommend any great changes, but a more 

 careful study of the subject in general, wath a view to 

 improvement. 



If it costs twenty-four cents to make one pound of butter, 

 and it can be sold for thirty cents, the net profit is, of course, 

 six cents on a pound, or three dollars on a tub of fifty 

 pounds ; and if a cow produces one hundred and thirty-five 

 pounds per year, the probable average in Vermont, the net 

 profit from a dairy of twenty cows would be one Imndred 

 and sixty-two dollars. Now if the quality of tlie butter 



