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house. The cream is taken off into tin pails ; is salted a little, and 

 stirred every day. 



We churn twice each week during the summer. Before churning, 

 the cream stands upon ice for twelve hours or more. After churning, 

 the butter-milk is thoroughly Avorked out by the hand, and the butter 

 is salted to suit the taste. The day following, the butter is worked 

 over again and prepared for the market. 



In laying down butter for the winter, we use stone jars. After 

 packing it down very closely, we sprinkle salt and loaf sugar, between 

 each layer of butter. In this way our butter has kept perfectly sweet 

 through the season. 



It should be mentioned, that during parts of July and August, the 

 cows that were milked, had in addition to the pasture, green corn 

 fodder ; or in the place of that, Indian meal and shorts, equally mix- 

 ed, in proportion of two quarts to each cow daily. And the same 

 quantity of the same grain has been given to them during the last 

 half of September, and of October. 



The management of the dairy has, in consequence of the sickness 

 of my wife, been wholly confided to my daughter the present year. 

 Previous, she had had no particular training for this branch of house- 

 wifery. She engaged in it with alacrity, and her own health has 

 been benefitted by the occupation. 



You will, I trust, pardon the suggestion to one holding your offi- 

 cial position, that it should be made a special object of our agricul- 

 tural societies, to interest and awaken the attention of the female part 

 of the community — perhaps by associating ladies in the examination 

 of such articles as they are best competent to judge of ; and by 

 making the exhibition of such articles a distinct department of the 

 annual fair. Or perhaps, by offering a premium for the rearing of 

 fowls, — the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, or fruit trees, — or the 

 keeping of bees, and such like. The dairy, needlework, knitting, 

 &c. belong of course to them. But I would bring them into more 

 active employment, in the open air. One of the best conducted 

 dairy establishments in this town, where five or six cows are kept, is 

 wlioUij taken care of by two females, a widow and her daughter. 

 Mothers have much to do with the training of their sons to a love of, 

 and an intelligent preparation for, a farmer's life. It is from their 

 interest in, and their skilful management of, the labors which belong 



