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the time of cluirning is of quite as iniicli importance as either 

 of the other points. The writer has found, by his experience, 

 these two propositions to be true, — first, the warmer the cream 

 the quicker it is churned, and, as a general rule, the quicker 

 the churning, the poorer, that is the softer and more oily, the 

 butter. After the churning, the next point is the salting. And 

 here the committee would repeat, that some of the lots wore 

 much injured by the excess of this article. Not only was it 

 present in excess, but of such size as to grate between the teeth. 

 Bearing in mind that the consumer can easily supply a slight 

 deficiency, while it is impossible for him to subtract from the 

 amount already incorporated in the butter, all will agree that 

 it is preferable to use too little than too much salt. Besides, a 

 large supply of this article rather detracts from than adds to the 

 true flavor of butter. As a rule it is thought that not more 

 than one pound of salt should be added to twenty pounds of 

 butter. If, when the butter has come in the churn, the butter- 

 milk is well worked out, this amount of salt is well incorporated 

 in the mass, and the whole left in a cool place for twenty-four 

 hours, and then again well worked by the " Butter Worker,'''' 

 and lumped for market, a really good article is not produced, it 

 may be set down for certain, provided the consistency of the 

 butter shows a proper mode of churning, that the fault lies 

 elsewhere than in the process of manufacture. 



Subsequent to the examination and award of premiums by 

 the committee, two other boxes of lump butter, marked nine 

 and ten, were placed in the hall of the society. These were 

 examined by a portion of the committee, and in their opinion, 

 would have received a premium had they been seasonably 

 entered with the secretary. Both lots were well made, and of 

 high flavor and fine consistency, and the committee regretted 

 that the owners had failed to comply with the rules of the 

 society. 



Among the implements which filled the halls of the society, 

 the attention of the committee was called to one, around which 

 was gathered a highly gratified crowd of spectators. Tliis was 

 a Butter Tjfble or Butter Worker, manufactured and exhibited 

 by Nourse, Mason & Co., of Boston and Worcester. It consists 

 of a slab of maple, raised a little at one side, upon which rests 

 a fluted roller revolving upon a wooden shaft, one end of which 



