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process, kept clean, then doing everything at the proper time. 

 Forty hours is the average period of time for a pan of milk to 

 remain prior to skimming. It is necessary for the milk to sour 

 before the entire cream can he obtained. If the atmosphere is 

 such that the cream becomes rancid, immediatly skim. Skim- 

 ming at the proper time is absolutely necessary. The milk room 

 should be kept at sixty-one degrees. Twice a day stir the cream in 

 the jars: let those jars stand in the coldest place in the summer. 

 When churning is necessary, let the cream be at sixty-two degrees. 

 Uwo a dash churn, which is superior to any other. When the 

 globules are about breaking, reduce the temperature to 60 degrees. 

 Do not wash the butter. Work it as little as possible; too much 

 working makes it salvy, and washing destroys the flavor. 

 Adjourned. 



March 5, 1867. 

 Mr. N. C. Ely in the chair ; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



Poultry. 



The chairman stated that as the subject of poultry raising had 

 been made a special subject for to-day, he would give a little of 

 his experience. He had kept thirty hens and three roosters from 

 the 18th day of April to the 1st of ^lovember. ' These hens had 

 laid 1,728 eggs. The cost of feeding them was exactly $17, which 

 was about a cent apiece on an egg. They were fed chiefly on 

 wheat that had got partially wet in transportation, and on scraps 

 of meat. He bouo:ht seventeen bushels of damaged wheat at a 

 cost of $17. The value of these eggs was three and a half cents 

 at wholesale, which would leave a profit of about $1 a hen. The 

 hens were the Bhick Spanish, white-leg Dominicos and the Golden 

 pheasant. He had a good warm house, facing the south, the front 

 mostly of glass. He had pounded oyster shells and gravel kept 

 within their reach all the time. 



Mr. E. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn., said that cleanliness, warmth 

 and proper food were the three principal requisites for the success- 

 ful raising of fowls. His hen-house was about twelve by twelve 

 feet. He had it constructed with a double roof. The hens roost 

 on the upper one, and the lower one caught all the droppings, 

 thus keeping the floor below clean. He had fed them in the 

 winter time with fresh meat. He had about sixty to one hundred 

 chickens. 



