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vour ; but fortunately the process is so simple 

 as to require little more than great attention 

 to cleanliness and common observation. Much 

 also depends on the pasture of the cow 

 during the summer, and her feeding in the 

 winter. The grass, whether poor or rich, 

 you cannot alter ; but if you cut it for hay, 

 see that it be mown when in flower, without 

 waiting for the seeds to form ; and let nothing 

 induce you to follow the advice of those eco- 

 nomists who would tell you about the saving 

 of soiling the cow upon cut grass in the 

 house during the summer. If you must pur- 

 chase hay, buy it of the very greenest upland 

 meadow ; for if you have it coarse and rushy, 

 what you may save in price you will assuredly 

 lose in the value and probably the quantity 

 of the butter. In short, if you wish it to be 

 good, let the cow be well fed. 



Rich milk throws up rather less cream than 

 that which is thinner, and if a small quantity 

 of water be added to it, the cream will be 

 increased ; but it will be, at the same time, 

 proportionably deficient in richness. In win- 

 ter, as well as in consequence of any poor 

 mode of feeding, it will also be less rich, and 



