22(3 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



THE DAIllY. 



"WORCESTER. , 



From the Report of the Committee. 



"We have a home market insufficiently supplied by our own 

 producers ; butter made at our own door presents a more invit- 

 ing appearance to the purchasers than that which has borne the 

 heat and the jolting of a long carriage. Always, purchasers 

 are in our hall as ready to give the highest price as they are 

 desirous of purchasing the best article. 



Much butter is offered in the market at a shilling the pound ; 

 and it would seem as if, when to the actual value of the article 

 in the market the society adds by way of premium an amount 

 varying from seventeen to fifty cents per pound, it had done all 

 it could be expected to do to secure a spirited and general com- 

 petition. So much has been written upon the subject of the 

 manufacture of butter, that no hope is indulged of adding by 

 way of remark, any information to what would seem to be a 

 well told tale. 



In spite of all that has been said, at every exhibition of the 

 kind, competitors fail of success, when it would seem defeat 

 could be most easily guarded against. Thus, for instance, at 

 our present exhibition, more than one competitor failed for 

 want of thoroughly extracting the buttermilk from the butter. 



In answer to the inquiries prepared by the society, one 

 exhibitor states that he works his butter by hand, and all state 

 that they do not make use of any labor-saving machine in the 

 manufacture of this article. 



Tlie committee do not mean to hazard the assertion that 

 good butter cannot be ivorked by liand and remain ^oo^; but 

 they do make the safe statement that all butter if worked by 

 machinery is better than if worked by hand. 



Good cows, good feed, pure water, the utmost cleanliness, all 

 agree are essentials to the manufacture of good butter. Differ- 

 ences exist as to the time requisite for churning. But it is 

 believed that more depends upon the mode in which this pro- 

 cess is performed, than upon the time consumed in the opera- 

 tion ; and perhaps, after all, the temperature of the cream at 



