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mains of the milk to be obferved amongfl the butter' 

 a matter highly effential to its goodnefs, and its pre- 

 fervation, if intended for keeping, although too much 

 neglefted, on a principle of the faving of labour, and 

 gain of weight by the milk yet remaining in the 

 butter; and yet the amount of labour faved, and 

 weight gained, will be (as Mr. Harper obferves) 

 not two-pence in the pound.* 



Upon this mode of making butter, the two fol- 

 lowing experiments were made by Mr. Harper, in 

 1791 ; July 28th, he ordered two churnings to be 

 made from the milk of one meal, viz. one colledion 

 of milk and cream after the ufual manner of collefting 

 milk; and the other of cream only; and which we^e 

 both treated alike, according to the Lancafhire me- 

 thod of fouring the milk, previous to the operation 

 of churning ; fifteen pounds of each kind of butter, 

 prepared and worked as ufual, but with a double 

 portion of fait, as the butter was intended to be kept, 

 were put into feparate mugs, and covered over with 

 about three half pints of brine, and which flood in 

 a cool cellar till Augufl: 1792; both mugs were then 

 tried with a butter fcoop, and they were both found 



• Any thing near two-pence in the pound would be a very large 

 faving indeed, on fuch an article as butter ! but becomes of no import- 

 ance if the quality be rendered greatly inferior. Editor. 



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