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tain more butter, and we cannot perceive but that it is as good. It 

 also comes much clearer. A little salt is put in the cream pail, and 

 the cream stirred at every addition, which we think prevents the 

 cream from becoming bitter. The butter milk is separated from the 

 butter by thorough working with the hands, no water ever being 

 used for that purpose ; the butter is then salted with one ounce of 

 salt to the pound ; after about 24 hours it is again worked. Nothing 

 but salt is added to either th e June or September butter j the June 

 butter is put down in layers of 5 lbs., and salt sprinkled upon each 

 layer ; the pot is then covered closely from the air, and placed upon 

 the bottom of the dairy cellar. 



Yours, respectfully, 



G. W. DODGE. 



Wenham, September 29, 1847. 



ON TURNING IN GREEN CROPS FOR MANURE. 



This subject is one of interest, and deserves the mature considera- 

 tion of the agricultural community. The plan of renovating lands 

 by turning in green crops, though not new, has not, so far as I am 

 advised, been extensively practised in IMassachusetts. In Essex 

 County a few experiments have been made, and these with various 

 success. In some parts of our country, the results of experiments 

 have been all that the best farmers could reasonably wish. Worn 

 out lands, favorable to the use of plaster, have, by a succession of 

 clover, rye or buckwheat crops, been entirely renovated, at compara- 

 tively small expense. In other parts, while results have been en- 

 couraging, and in the main, satisfactory, they have not equalled the 

 glowing descriptions published by the entirely successful. These dif- 

 ferent experiences are to be attributed, probably, to the difference in 

 soil, location, climate, &c. 



I have conversed with many of the most intelligent farmers in New 

 England on this subject, and they uniformly agree that green crops 

 will prove valuable to clayey soils, by rendering them more friable, 

 as well as retentive of moisture, and to light sandy soils, by impart- 

 ing to them properties of which they are deficient. But they as uni- 



