18 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



September, as samples of seven hundred and ninety pounds, 

 made from the milk of six cows and three heifers, in four 

 months next following the 20th of May. 



My cows averaged one pound a day each, through the month 

 of June, and about seven-eighths of a pound each, through the 

 season. Previous to the middle of August, they had common 

 pasture feed only. After that they were supplied with green 

 corn, and permitted to go on our mowing ground. 



Our milk is strained into tin pans, and permitted to stand 

 from forty-eight to seventy-two hours, until the cream is fully 

 risen ; then it is put into pails, covered, and set in a cool vault 

 prepared for the purpose. We usually churn once a week. 

 The butter-milk- is worked out by hand ; and about one ounce 

 of salt is applied to a pound. Our cows are of native breed, 

 and gathered without particular care in their selection. 



MiDDDLETON, Sept. 26th, 1849. 



Johti Stone, Jr.^s Statement. 



I present for your examination, twenty-six pounds of butter, 

 being a sample of two hundred and twenty pounds, made from 

 the milk of four cows, in thirty-nine days, from the 1st of June 

 to the 9th of July. During this time, we sold eight quarts of 

 cream, and used one quart of milk a day in the family. We 

 have ascertained that nine quarts of our milk yields one pound 

 of butter, and that one quart of cream will make a pound of 

 butter; consequently, the produce of the four cows, in thirty-nine 

 days, was equal to two hundred and thirty-two pounds, or one 

 and a half pounds a day to each cow. Finding that our milk 

 could be used to better advantage, than in the making of but- 

 ter, after the 20th of July, we discontinued making ; and 

 therefore, I cannot give an account of butter made in Septem- 

 ber. From the quantity of milk given by the cows in Sep- 

 tember, I am of the opinion, that eight pounds of butter a 

 week to each cow, could then have been made. Our cows had 

 pasture feed only. Our pasture contains between four and five 



