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ON THE DAIIIY. 



pounds each in a period of six months. This was thought a largff 

 product, and was accounted for by the extraordinary feed of tlie 

 cows ; the Col. being a man not accustomed to leave anything he 

 undertook half finished. We have known some of the present claim- 

 ants, with whom we have been acquainted as such for nearly tMrtT/ 

 7/ears, to present statements of a produce of eight pounds of butter 

 a week to each cow for a number of successive weeks. These were 

 among the best products, in the natural ivay^ that we have known. 

 We have often heard of cows that yielded two pounds of butter a 

 day, and more, but we have never known a herd of such cows, or 

 any considerable number together, that would do it. without using a 

 feed for them that would " cost more than it came to." If such 

 can be found, Ave should consider attention to such a stock one of 

 the best modes of using a farm.* 



There is so much time misspent and labor lost in the making of 

 poor butter, that we feel it to be an imperative duty to endeavor to 

 impress the minds of farmers and of their wives and daughters, with 

 the importance of giving heed to this subject. There are some things 

 in relation to it so well settled as to be universally known by all 

 those who have any knowledge in the matter. There are others on 

 which there remain great differences of opinion and variance of prac- 

 tice. As for instance, in the statements before us, we find some of 

 the makers of butter apply cold water freely to the butter, both be- 

 fore it is taken from the churn and afterwards : "to aid in extract- 

 ing the butter milk and to harden the butter," as they say. Others 

 bring it into form without the use of water, and say that its use im- 

 pairs the flavor, and essentially injures the quality of the butter. 

 How shall it be determined which of these is right ? This is a prac- 



* In the Society's Traiiisactions for 1834, pages 75 to 78, will be found an enumeration of cows 

 most remarkable for their produce of butter. W^e refer to this with more satisfaction at the pres- 

 ent time, because, it was compiled by that eminent friend of the farmer, a]id especially the 

 Essex farmer, the late Hexky Colman, whose iiidel'aligable exertions for their inslrnclion, too 

 goon extinguished his light in a foreign land. 



Whoever shall undertake to note the progress of American Agriculture, will find much reliable 

 and truly practical intelligence to have proceeded from his pen. Next to Col. Pickeri.ng is this 

 Society indebted to Mr. Cohnan, for most valuable instruction. AVe know not how a belter ser- 

 vice could be rendered the Massachusetts farmer, than by a compilation of the Aprictdliiral 

 papers tliat have proceeded from the pens of Pickerikg, Lowell, Colman, and I'uinney, (who 

 have now ceased from their labor.-;.) with appropriate annotations. May we not hope in this ugu 

 of Agrictdtural enterprise, when the Allens, the Lincolns, the Wildekj, and the BucKt-NGit.iMs, 

 are nobly aiming to be foremost in doing good, that this medium of doing it, will not be entirely 

 overlooked. ''Blessed arc they who have labored to do good .; their works shall follow them."' If 

 this be not Scripture, it might well be. 



