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used should be sweet and clean, the cream churned 

 while pefectly sweet, and as sure as that two and two 

 will ever make four, you will ever have good butter. 

 Which is respectfully submitted by 



DEAN ROBINSON, Chairman. 



JESSE PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, > 

 on the Dairy : 5 



Gentlemen — My engagements are such that I 

 shall not be able to attend the meeting of the Socie- 

 ty this day, but I send you a firkin of butter for pre- 

 mium. It was made in the month of June, in the 

 following manner: The milk strained in tin pans, 

 and kept as long as sweet, before the cream was ta- 

 ken off, which was put in tin pails and kept in the 

 cellar ; it was churned twice a week, and then the 

 butter was salted, the butter milk that could be con- 

 veniently being then taken out ; in twenty-four hours 

 it was worked over, and again at the end of the same 

 period of time, and put in the firkin, which was kept 

 in the cellar until fall. The firkin contains about 

 forty pounds, which when filled was put in the well, 

 at the distance of twenty-one feet from the surface of 

 the ground, and has there remained until last even- 

 ing, when it was taken up. 



The above statement is submitted by 



Jesse Putnam. 



Danvcrs, Sept. 20, 1839. 

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