84 ox THE DAIRY. 



JONATHAN BERRYS STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on the Dairy : 



Gentlemen : — I present for your examination 2G pounds of but- 

 ter, made in June, and 28 pounds of butter made in September, as 

 samples of 790 pounds, made from the milk of six cows and three 

 heifers, in four months next following the 20th of May. 



My cows averaged one pound a day each, through the month of 

 June, and about seven-eighths of a pound each through the season. 

 Previous to the middle of August, they had common pasture feed 

 only. After that they were supplied with green corn, and permitted 

 to go on our mowing ground. 



Our milk is strained into tin pans, and permitted to stand from 

 forty-eight to seventy-two hours, until the cream is fully risen ; then 

 it is put into pails, covered, and set in a cool vault prepared for the 

 purpose. We usually churn once a week. The butter-milk is work- 

 ed out by hand ; and about one ounce of salt is applied to a pound. 

 Our cows are of native breed, and gathered without particular care 

 in their selection. 



JONATHAN BERRY. 



Middleton, Sept. 20, 1849. 



Remarks. — The committee were gratified again to meet Mr. Berry among the competitors. 

 Our friends of Dan vers have so long been accustomed to go ahead with their claims for butter" 

 that we are pleased to find there are those in other towns who can begin to compete with the best 

 of them. We shall be pleased to have specimens exhibited from every town in the county. 



is made in the form of a barrel, holding about 24 gallons, has a crank at the end, attached to a 

 frame-work within, that revolves and agitates the cream. In this, there may be made 40 pounds 

 of butter at a churning. It usually takes from 30 minutes to an hour to bring the butter. I 

 have tried several of the new patterns of churns. Have found none that works so well as our old 

 one. It has no patent name, but it has so long been accustomed to make good butter, that it ha» 

 never yet failed to do so. There may be better forms of churns, but I am content to let well 

 enough alone, — having long since ascertained, that every alteration proposed, by interested specu- 

 lators, is not an improvement. 



