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use, will then be found worth at least twenty-five per cetol 

 more than that which has been cured with salt alone. 



Dr. Anderson condemns the practice of keeping milk in 

 leaded vessels, and butter in stone jars, as communicating 

 to the milk, and to the butter, a poisonous quality extreme- 

 ly injurious to the human constitution. 



To prevent the rancidity of common salted butter, Mr. 

 De Witt very judiciously recommends making it into rolls, 

 and keeping it in a pure brine in a cask, with a lid and 

 dasher, somewhat similar to the common churn. The 

 dasher is for the purpose of keeping the rolls under the 

 brine, which is effected by means of a cord tied at one side 

 of the vessel, run over the head of the handle of the 

 dasher, and then tied down at the opposite side. The 

 brine does not penetrate the butter, and therefore may be 

 made strong ; and, to keep it pure, it may be occasionally 

 heated, and the scum taken off, which will clarify it. 



Country Merchants, who take in butter, by attending to 

 this, may preserve all their Spring and Summer butter 

 sweet for the Fall market. 



To make the finest butter, take the last fourth-part of the 

 milk of each teat of the best Cows for making butter, and 

 make it by itself. The first part of the milking, which con- 

 tains much the least and the poorest of the cream, can be 

 made into inferior butter, or used for other purposes. 



Butter made in the month of May is observed to be the 

 best for keeping. 



c. 



CABBAGE (Brascia.) There are many varieties of 

 this plant, such as the common white and red cabbage, 

 the Dutch, the Scoth, the Savoy, the Winter green globe, 

 the brocoli, the borecole, the Battersea, Sec. The oil called 

 rapeoii is made from the seeds of the borecole, or rafie, as 

 it is sometimes called. 



In Greatbritain, the cultivation of cabbages is a part of 

 field-husbandry, and they are used for feeding and fating 

 cattle. 



Cabbages require a soil made rich, but the kind is not so 

 material. Mr. Young 1 makes mention of good crops raised 

 in red sand. Rich swamp-lands, well drained^ are good 

 for them, They will grow yearly on the same ground; 

 but they exhaust the soil considerably. For field-culture, 



