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daily, according to the practice in Scotland, a frozen 

 cream always making rank butter. German stoves, 

 burning charcoal, are useful in a dairy. The milker 

 should never be suffered to enter the dairy in a 



DIRTY APRON, COVERED WITH HAIRS FROM THE COW 



HOUSE ; on this head, three reprimands, the last 

 accompanied with a discharge. 



An upright HAND- 

 CHURN, or BARREL- 

 CHURN, will either of 

 them answer the pur- 

 pose. The quantity of 

 milk being large, the 

 latter will be most con- 

 venient. Baker of Lon- 

 don has invented a box- 

 churn, with a spindle, which turns in the man- 

 ner of a hand-organ, and which, as calculated for 

 a small dairy of two or three cows, seems likely 

 to supersede the old upright hand-churn. It may 

 be placed on a dresser or table. Price, for one 

 to make fourteen pounds of butter, 21. 16s. It 

 may be had of any size. It is said that * the 

 Shakers' of Endfield, New Hants, U. S. America, 

 have a still higher claim to ingenuity in the case, 

 since they churn their butter by wind, attaching 

 small sails to the churn, to be moved by a light 

 breeze ; now whether this report be merely a shake 

 vox et prceterea nihilj a windy hoax, I leave to curi- 

 ous enquirers. 



Much has been said and written on the difficulty 

 of making butter come ; it is, however, no less true 



