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aside for twenty four hours, when the working over 

 is completed. Put directly into the firkin, and a 

 little salt sprinkled over what was put down each 

 week. The firkin stood through the summer in the 

 cellar. 



DANIEL PUTNAM. 



North Danvers, September 29, 1840. 



To the Committee on the Dairy. 



Gentleimen — I have brought for your examination 

 two boxes of September butter, containing twenty 

 six pounds. I know not that there is any thing 

 peculiar in the process of making this butter. The 

 milk is strained into tin pans; it stands from thirty 

 six to forty eight hours, according to the weather; 

 when the cream is taken off", put into tin pails and 

 occasionally stirred. We churn usually twice each 

 week; when the butter is gathered, the buttermilk 

 is drawn ofi*, the butter is rinsed in two waters; then 

 is taken out, worked over in part, salted, (one ounce 

 of salt to a pound of butter, and set aside for twenty 

 four hours, when the working over is completed. 



From May 20 to June 10th, I milked six cows; 

 from the last date to August 1, the number was 

 'seven; through the month of August eight; and in 

 September nine — averaging perhaps seven. Three 

 of these were two year old heifers, and one three. 

 From these cows I have made, since the 20th of 

 May, six hundred and eight pounds of butter; have 

 sold seven hundred and sixty eight quarts of milk; 

 have used in the family probably eight quarts per 

 day, or nine hundred sixty quarts. The pasture in 

 which my cows feed is poor, but they have been fed 

 at the barn every day upon hay, green oats, or 

 green corn stalks, besides about two quarts of cob 

 meal per day to each cow. 



DANIEL PUTNAM. 



North Danvers, September 29, 1840. 



