230 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. . . 



much salt as my customers will allow. More would be required 

 if it were added while the milk remained in the butter, as much 

 of it would run off with tiie buttermilk, while working. 



If the salt could be worked into every particle of the butter 

 at this time, it might be now ready to stamp for market and 

 deliver to the customers. But as salted butter is yellower than 

 fresh, unless the salt is actually distributed perfectly even 

 through the whole mass, it will, after standing a few hours, 

 show, on being cut, a streaked, spotted or marbled appearance, 

 — coarse or fine, — according as it was worked much or little 

 after being salted. 



In warm weather I prefer to hang the butter in the well to 

 cool a few hours before putting it through the mould; again 

 working it evenly at this time, on the worker. 



This season, until July 1, my butter was sold at fifty-five cents 

 per pound ; in July at fifty cents ; and the last three weeks at 

 sixty cents, delivered to the customers. 



During the four months' trial I have had eight cows. One 

 was sold for beef June 22 ; one heifer, three years old, dried off 

 July 15 ; one cow came in August 1. Have now six in milk. 

 Two are in their prime ; one of them, the one that came in 

 August 1 ; the other four are all young. Two calved in August 

 of last year; the other two calved at two years old or under, 

 last spring. The two old cows gave at this time about twenty- 

 two quarts per day ; the otlier four only about eighteen ; or 

 forty quarts per day in all. One quart and a pint per day are 

 sold ; also all the night's milk one day in each week is skimmed 

 at twelve hours old. Have made, in the time between May 15 

 and September 16, inclusive, 512 pounds, besides what has been 

 used in the family. 



The feed is now mostly corn fodder, cut up green and fed in 

 the stall. Some dry hay is given, also three pints of corn meal 

 per day. The cows were turned to pasture about June 1, and 

 had two feedings of hay each day. Tiie pasture lias yielded 

 very little feed since August 10, when the corn was ready for 

 them. The cows have run out from six to eight hours per day. 

 The remainder of the time they have been in the stalls, where a 

 large amount of manure has been secured for future crops. 



