38 ON THE DAIRY. 



Statement ~ necessary to obtain the premium on butter made the 

 next six months after the 20lh May, ending this day ; together 

 with a continuation of the system in making butter in cold 

 weather. The whole quantity of cheese is no more than before 

 stated, and butter to this day as weighed and accounted for by 

 my dairy woman, as churned, is seven hundred and seventy 

 one pounds. 



Our average family through the season has been equal to 

 ten persons, for whom milk has been used as required, without 

 limit. 



Since cold weather, the system of butter making has been al- 

 tered. The first of October the milk was set on shelves in a 

 room above ground, and the same process of making the butter 

 continued as long as the warm weather lasted ; after which, be- 

 fore churning, the cream in stone pots was set near a cooking 

 stove for a day or two and made sufficiently warm to sour, when 

 it is immediately churned, and the before mentioned process pur- 

 sued. The souring of the cream, and churning it while in this 

 state and warm, causes it to come quicker and to continue the 

 yellow hue of summer, together with the flavor being much richer, 

 and keeps longer sweet and sound. While the cream is near 

 the fire, to be soured, it should be occasionally stirred. 



My dairy woman in former seasons, where she has not had 

 the advantage of the strong heat of a stove, has soured the 

 cream by gently heating an oven, in which she has put the 

 cream in tin pails, and continued an equalized heat by putting 

 in fresh coals as occasion required till efi'ected. 



I am, gentlemen, very respecfully, your ob't servant, 



Hector Coffin. 



N. B. The salt used, consists of one third clean washed 

 Turks Island, and two thirds Liverpool blown salt ; to every 

 pound of which three quarters of an ounce of Saltpetre is added, 

 the whole mass finely pulverized and passed through a fine 

 sieve ; and one ounce of this mixture is used to every pound of 

 butter in summer and nearly an ounce in cold weather. 



