62 ON THE DAIRY. 



cold, soon becomes rancid, find as rancid butter is often found, ■where 

 there is no want of salt, we attribute it mainly to this cause. The 

 remedy is a little more patient labor. 



It is of great importance that cream should be at the right tempera- 

 ture when churned. It is not uncommon in summer to hear the dairy 

 maid say, "the butter has come white and soft." This we believe 

 is commonly in consequence of churning cream when it is too warm. 

 Cream can be easily brought to a proper temperature by bringing 

 the vessels which contain it, in contact with ice, hanging them in a 

 well, or putting them in a cold spring from 12 to 24 hours before 

 churning. Any one who has not witnessed the advantage of cooling 

 cream before churning in warm weather, will be surprised at the 

 result. 



One other practical fault is salting butter "to tastes" which are 

 much more liable to vary than weights. One of the samples for the 

 best product of butter presented for examination was too salt and 

 therefore did not receive the premium it would otherwise have been 

 entitled too. Too salt however is not a very censurable fault, as the 

 objection to butter of this kind can be obviated by using the pre- 

 caution that a good old lady once suggested to a clergyman, who 

 complained at her table that her butter was too salt. "Pat the less 

 of it in your mouth at a time" was her ready reply. One ounce of 

 salt to a pound of butter from the churn is in ordinary cases suffi- 

 cient. Butter designed to be kept in a warm cellar will require more 

 salt than if kept in an ice house or cold cellar. Weighing will not 

 preclude the necessity of exercising judgement ; it is only an assist 

 ant. If the butter maker should err in salting, let it be on the safe 

 side, for we know of no apology to offer for a deficiency in salting or 

 working butter. It soon becomes rancid, and is as revolting to the 

 taste, as the scolding epithets, or angry looks of the fair manufactur- 

 er would be to the eye or ear. 



The Committee award the Society's premiums as follows : 

 For the best produce of June butter ; 

 To John Stone, of Marblehead, 1st premium, $10 



To Jonathan Berry, of Middleton, 2d " 8 



To Jonas Holt, of Andover, od " 6 



To Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton, 4th " Colman's 



European Agriculture. 

 For the best produce in four months, from May 20th. 



