ON IRRIGATION. 33 



Her calf was raised and took full one half the milk till the 

 middle of June. 



3rd, 4 years old, came in the last of September, 

 all kept on what is called old pasture, but in the early part of 

 June, occasionally, not habitually, fed at night with hay and a 

 few potatoes. 200 quarts of milk were otherwise disposed of, 

 being a little over five quarts a day. 



The butter was made in the usual way and has been kept in 

 the pot on the bottom of the cellar. It is seasoned with one 

 ounce of composition to a pound of butter, made of one part 

 of Saltpetre, one part of white sugar and two parts of salt. 



(The committee thought a larger proportion ofsalt would have 

 been better.) 



Through the whole process, it has received no attention but 

 such as might easily be given in any family with the convenien- 

 cies usually possessed. 



It was churned in a close churn, which I am upon the whole 

 apprehensive is not as good as one open, where the latter can be 

 conveniently used. 



No. III. ON IRRIGATION. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, on Irriga- 

 gation, consisting of Daniel P. King, Hobart Clark and Moses 

 Newell, Report : — ■ 



That their attention was invited by Mr. Ebenezer Jenkins of 

 Andover, to four acres of mowing land on which he has been 

 making an experiment in irrigation. The field is a sandy gravel, 

 the kind of soil most capable of improvement by watering, and 

 so situated as to be flowed at pleasure. Mr. Jenkins bought of 

 a neighbor the use of the water and the privilege of digging 

 through his pasture for ten years, for twenty dollars ; he then 

 built a dam across a constant stream and made a channel about 

 fifty rods in length; by means of this and other smaller ditches, 

 he conducts the water on to his field in such quantities and at 

 such times as he thinks proper. Mr. Jenkins states that it is his 



