ON THE DAIRY. 37 



From the above five cows and three heifers, about 800 lbs. 

 of different kinds of cheese have been made. 



The above cows and heifers are all from native breed. Their 

 keeping in the summer is common pasturing ; and in the winter 

 they are fed with fresh meadow hay and salt hay mixed, and 

 never have grain or provender of any kind, except after calving 

 in the spring, when they have a quart of meal mixed with water 

 per day and some better hay. 



For butter, the milk is strained into earthen and tin pans, 

 also zinc, (but the wom.en prefer the earthejA ; tlien set on the 

 brick floor of a very cold dairy cellar and ^;k!mmed before turn- 

 ing sour ; churning as often as requisite, twice or three times per 

 week in Gait's patent churn, keeping the cream as cold as pos- 

 sible. As soon as the butter is gathered, the butter milk is im- 

 mediately drawn ofi'; the churn is immediately filled with cold 

 water from the well, and the butter well washed by churning a 

 few minutes ; then taken out, after standing to cool, and passed 

 through the operation of salting and first working, when it is put 

 in pans on the dairy cellar floor for the day and night, and 

 next morning thoroughly and completely worked, and packed 

 down in stone pots or made into balls for stamping ; when cool, 

 stamped ; and if to be kept, put down in pickle. 



N. B. The best pickle is made of washed Turks Island salt 

 and saltpetre, with a proper proportion of loaf sugar. 

 I am very respectfully, your obedient servant. 



Hector Coffin. 



Newbury Rock Farm, Sejjt. 27, 1832. 



N. B. The pans are washed after use, and then boiled in a 

 cauldron (of pure water) and cooled (in the shade) before milk is 

 again strained into them. 



The churn is filled with cold water over night, before use ; 

 and washed with boiling water after churning. 



NEWBURY ROCK FARM, NOVEMBER 20, 1832. 



Gentlemen, 



Agreeably to the foregoing duplicate of statement placed 

 before you the day of the cattle show, I now subjoin the required 



