274 Produce — Dairy, 



pends on the constitution of the cow, how 

 nearly she may be milked to the time of her 

 calving, some giving good milk until with- 

 in a week or two of that period, others re- 

 quiring to be dried eight or nine weeks pre- 

 viously. I have heard of twenty pounds of 

 butter, and even twenty- two pounds, made 

 from the milk of one long-horned cow in 

 seven days ; but I have never been fortu- 

 nate enough to obtain one that would pro- 

 duce more than twelve pounds per week, 

 although I have had a Yorkshire cow which 

 milked seven gallons per day, yet never 

 made five pounds of butter in one week. 

 On the average, three gallons of good milk 

 will make one pound of butter. 



The DAIRY must be the seat of the most 

 exquisite and punctilious cleanliness, in 

 every part of its management. Hence all 

 sluts, snuff-talxcrs and dandles — away to 

 the dust-hole and cinder- heap I It must be 

 airy, and both glazed and latticed, and 

 floored with flag-stones or broad brick. 

 Lead is dangerous, and well-glazed earth- 

 en pans are the best and most convenient 



