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a cellar; the cream is kept in tin pails; churning performed once 

 in four days in the early part of the season, and once a week in 

 the latter part. The cream is strained through a cloth into the 

 churn. The time required for churning averages only seven mi- 

 nutes. The butter is put into an earthen pan and water added 

 and repeated till the buttermilk is thoroughly rinsed from the 

 butter, or until it returns colorless. The butter is then worked 

 over. Then it is put into an earthen pan and salted with one 

 ounce of salt to a pound of butter. It is afterwards worked over 

 again, piece by piece, and made into balls and put into the cellar 

 till sent to market. One cow made from 20th day of May to the 

 20th day of September, 211 pounds and two ounces butter. 



The fifth premium butter was made much as above. Water was 

 employed in forcing the butter from the buttermilk. It was salt- 

 ed with one ounce of salt and one-fourth ounce of loaf sugar to 

 the pound. 



The Essex society awarded one premium on bog or swamp 

 land, which had been reclaimed. In connection with this award 

 the committee make the following important suggestions, and re- 

 commend the employment of a competent person to make a sur- 

 vey of bog and swamp lands with the view to the best mode of 

 reclaiming them. They say that some meadows are flooded with 

 springs from the neighboring high lands, others from springs 

 coming up from beneath; some are simple basins with hard, im- 

 pervious bottoms, and others still are combinations of the above, 

 and hence considering the variety of causes which combine in 

 producing swamp land, they recommend that these lands in the 

 county should be surveyed by a competent person who may dis- 

 cover the best and cheapest means of meeting any particular 

 case. 



We find a statement of the cost of clearing an acre of swamp, 

 which may be of some value to some of our readers. One acre 

 partly covered with stunted bushes was cleared by the proprietor, 

 afterwards the stumps and hassocks and leveling was performed 

 by contract for $20.00. It was afterward covered M'ith loamy 

 gravel to the depth of one inch, requiring five days' work of two 



