*4. YORKSHIRE. 1.99 



three or four pounds. The entire quantity 

 qf the cream, though fmall, being collected 

 in the bulge, receives its clue agitation. The 

 " Handing churn," an aukward utenfil, feems 

 to be going out of ufe. A barrel churn, 

 two feet and a half long, two feet diameter 

 at the mouth, and twenty-one inches at 

 the ends, with dalhers fix inches wide, will 

 ch.urn either a firkin, or a few pounds, of 

 butter. The price of fuch a churn is about 

 fifty {hillings ; iron hoops, cranks, frame, 8cc. 

 inclufivc. 



The fi)kins are made in the neighbour- 

 hood, at very low prices (price of a " whole 

 firkin," weighing 12 Ib. lod. to is. of a 

 " half firkin," weighing 7 Ib. 8 d. to pd.). 

 The ftaves and heads of aih ; the hoops 

 principally of hazle. The firkin is fcaldcd 

 and falted on the infide, previous to its being 

 ufed : fait is flrewcd at the bottom; the 

 butter clofely kneaded in; covered at the 

 top with fait ; and headed up for market. 



The " firft gathering" is generally font to 



piarket in the fpring, in a recent (late ; the 



V fummer butter" (namely, that gathered bc- 



O . twccn. 



