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day of May, and the 10th day of September ; in the flush of 

 feed she yielded sixteen quarts of milk daily. The milk of No. 

 4 was taken for family use. From January 5, 1850, to Sept. 

 10, 1850, whole amount of butter made, 698 14-16 lbs. ; milk 

 and cream sold, ^24 05. One calf at ten days old, sold for 

 $4 ; the others now at pasture. 



Except in the extremes of summer and winter, the milk is 

 kept on the ground floor of the house, in tin pans ; remains 

 from thirty six to forty-eight hours, cream taken ofl" and put in 

 large stone pots ; water is placed in the churn and stands over 

 night ; cream churned slowly but steadily ; the butter is 

 washed in spring water; butter-milk worked out, and salt 

 worked in ; stands twenty-four hours, when it is again worked 

 aid lumped. We use a " butter worker," and generally add 

 about three-quarters of an ounce of salt to one pound of butter. 

 We think the butter is firmer, more waxy and even, if the 

 churning occupies from forty-five to sixty minutes, than when 

 brought in less time ; rapidity of churning is no more desirable 

 than shortness of time during the operation. 



Swine. On an average, six, which have been fed on the 

 wash of the house, refuse of the dairy, and weeds. 



None of my cows have been weighed. Winter manage- 

 ment. — They are stabled, fed at regular hours of the day, a 

 good bedding at night, cleaned in the morning with a curry 

 comb instead of a card, kept stabled except for two or three 

 hours in the middle of the day, if fair weather : if stormy, 

 they are not out, except a sufficient time morning, noon, and eve- 

 ning to allow them drink, as milch cows should be kept warm 

 and dry. At present my hay is of an ordinary quality, and the 

 deficiency is made up by a distribution of from one to two 

 pecks of carrots to each cow daily, the value of which, for 

 cows, I think is not duly appreciated. We churn during the 

 winter, and by the aid of carrots given to the cows, the butter 

 is fully equal in color and sweetness to that made in June. 

 The milking and care of my stock is by myself, unless pre- 

 vented by sickness or absence, milking throughout the year uni- 

 formly at 6 A. M., and 6 P. M. The season has been a bad one 

 for making milk and butter ; the produce of both has been less 



