752 MASS. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



pound. When butter is manufactured, the waste milk, for 

 swine or other purposes, covers all the cost of labor in its 

 manufacture. It is believed, that to manufacture our milk 

 into butter, instead of sending it to the market at the above 

 prices, would prove more profitable to the farmers of the 

 county; first, because the waste milk goes far towards grow- 

 ing and fattening swine, and in all cases where suitable help 

 can be obtained at fair prices, or more particularly, where the 

 farmer's wife or daughters can personally attend to its manu- 

 facture, it is believed that the waste milk very much more than 

 pays for all labor. Besides, the economy of feeding swine 

 with this milk, causes the farmer to feed double the number of 

 swine that his neighbor does, who sends his milk to market. 

 Hence the difference in the manure heap. Good cows should 

 be the first object for the dairy." 



Farmers will do well to read the report, as it is a valuable 

 paper. 



Let the dairy departments, and all their utensils, be kept in 

 the most perfect neatness; let the atmosphere of those rooms 

 be perfectly pure, not an odor arising to offend the most deli- 

 cate olfactories ; then shall the cheese room, replenished with 

 its golden treasures, not only delight and charm the eye of the 

 spectator, but fill the purse of the owner with the more solid 

 charms. 



Pertersham, 1853. 



