THE FARMER'S AND 



MR. MERRIFIELD'S STATEMENT. 



Number of cows. Eight. 



Mode of keeping. In pasture, in summer ; on hay, 

 straw and roots, in winter. 



Treatment of cream and milk. Milk strained into tin 

 pans, and placed in the cellar. 



Mode of churning. The cream only churned, in a 

 Dutch churn. 



Method of freeing the butter from the milk. By pres- 

 sure. 



Quantity and kind of salt. Liverpool sack, one ounce 

 to the pound. 



Best time of churning. Morning, in summer. 



Best mode of keeping. In the cellar, in summer, in 

 wood. 



In winter, our milk stands twelve hours ; is then re- 

 moved to the stove, and scalded over a slow fire to near 

 boiling heat ; the pans removed to the cellar to cool ; the 

 cream only churned. The butter, placed in the coldest 

 part of the house, will keep good any length of time. 



WILLIAM MERRIF1ELD. 



Guilderland, Jan., 1842. 



To the Committee for the Examination of Butter : 



In submitting to your consideration the following report, 

 I would remark, that at the time of my leaving home, I 

 had no intention of entering the list of competitors, and 

 that the tub of butter exhibited for your inspection was 

 manufactured without any reference whatever to this ex- 

 hibition ; was made during my absence from home, in our 

 ordinary way of making butter. My soil, part sand, 

 heavy pine ridge, on which clover grows luxuriantly, and 

 part black loam, and part clay, nearly equal in propor- 



