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The milk and cream churned together, milk standing twenty- 

 four hours before churning. Churned in Kendall's rotary 

 churn ; time churning from fifteen to twenty minutes, tempera- 

 ture regulated by the finger, (the best thermometer,) if too low 

 I add a little hot water. My reason for churning milk and 

 cream together is, that the butter is less oily to the taste. 

 When taken from the churn, the butter is washed in cold 

 water with a ladle until all the buttermilk disappears, then 

 salted with one ounce and a half salt per pound, and worked until 

 all the water is expressed. When the jar is full, I place a 

 cloth, thickly strown with salt over the top to exclude the air. 

 Butter thus made and put down will keep any length of time, 

 if placed in a cool cellar, free from foul air. Butter made 

 in this manner is well known to the English navy, and carried 

 by them, and, after a five years' cruise, has proved to be as 

 sweet as when shipped. The butter made and sold from 

 these two cows, from January to October, was one hundred and 

 seventy pounds, beside supplying a family. 



BEE CULTURE. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



From the Report of the Committee on Bees and Honey. 

 Is it best to keep bees ? I answer yes, it is both profitable 

 and instructive to raise bees and honey, if properly managed. 

 An ordinary share of good common sense, with a little experi- 

 ence, are the only outfits needed, for commencing the experi- 

 ment. I said it was profitable and instructive, this matter of 

 bee-making. The market sales of honey and bees-wax, and the 

 delicious luxury afforded for the table, are evidences of profit, 

 while the lessons that may be learned, and the pleasures expe- 

 rienced by watching and studying the habits of these indus- 

 trious workers, affords a true source of pleasure and recreative 

 instruction. Besides, a row of bee-hives, and a tidy, neatly 

 constructed apiary, are ornaments to the household premises. 

 In fact, a farm-yard is hardly perfect without them. I am not 



