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ter ; Kendall I keep for milk to sell, and use in the family. Flora 

 has made 211 lbs. 2 ounces of butter since the 20th day of May 

 to the 20th day of September, inclusive. 

 Ipswich, Sept. 23, 1845. 



Note. The maimer of keeping the above cow and her yield 

 of milk, are given in a preceding statement. 



Daniel Putnam 11 s Statement. 



1 offer for your inspection two boxes of September butter, 

 containing twenty-six pounds, being a sample of six hundred 

 and fifteen pounds, made between the 20th of May and the 20th 

 of September, from the milk of eight cows, some of which have 

 been nearly dry a part of the season, having calved last autumn. 

 The milk of more than one cow has been sold and used in the 

 family, so that it would not be more than the average milk of 

 six cows. Their feed has been a poor pasture, one quart of 

 meal per day, with some mown grass or corn stalks. 



Process of making the butter. The milk is kept in tin pans. 

 After standing from 36 to 48 hours, the cream is taken off and 

 put into tin pails. We churn twice a week. When the butter- 

 milk is drawn from it, we thoroughly rinse it in cold water ; it 

 is then taken from the churn, worked in part, salted, an ounce 

 of salt and one fourth of an ounce of loaf sugar to the pound. 

 In about 24 hours, it is worked the second time. 



North Danvers, Sept. 24, 1845. 



On Meadow and Swamp Land. 



The committee have received but one application for premi- 

 um. That entry was made by David Gray, of Andover, whose 

 statement is handed in with this report. Upon examination of 

 the meadow referred to, they found his statement well sustained by 

 the appearance of the land and the crop standing upon it. They 

 hope that his success will encourage many others to commence 

 similar improvements, though they may be restricted at first to 

 small fields. There is, probably, no way, in which those who 

 have meadow land, can so easily increase the produce of their 



