70 ON THE DAIRY. 



pie of good cheese was exhibited also by Mrs. R. 



Buttrick, of Haverhill. 



JOSEPH HOW, 

 ALLEN PUTNAM, 

 JOSHUA BALLARD, 

 BENJAMIN SCOTT. 

 Georgetown, September 30, 1840, 



To J. W. Proctor, Esq. 



Sir — Having been unable to attend the meeting 

 of the board of trustees in December, I submit the 

 following considerations relating to the management 

 of dairies. 



The first and most essential point to be gained is to 

 procure good cows. It costs no more to feed a good 

 cow, than a poor one. And the comparative result 

 of their produce at the close of the year, makes 

 a most essential difference in the profits of the farm- 

 er. Suppose one cow to give one quart at a milking, 

 or two quarts per day, more than another, the milk 

 being of equal quality; and this milk to be estima- 

 ted worth two and a half cents per quart, and this 

 to continue 200 days — here would be a difference of 

 ten dollars in the produce of the two cows. This 

 rule applied to a dairy of fifteen cows, would equal 

 the sum of $150 — half as much as the net annual 

 income of a majority of the farmers in the county. 



The quality of the milk is a consideration not less 

 important than the quantity. Those, who never 

 have tried the experiment of setting different cows' 

 milk separate, have very imperfect ideas of their 

 comparative value. I have known some cows that 

 five or six quarts of their milk would raise cream 

 sufficient to make a pound of butter. I believe this 

 was stated to be true of the Oakes cow, from the 

 milk of which was made twenty pounds of butter a 

 week for several successive weeks; and I have heard 



