80 ON THE DAIRY. 



week; the butter was taken out and worked over 

 and salted with fine salt and four ounces of loaf su- 

 gar to every twenty pounds of butter, then put in 

 the well or ice-ceilar, and remained about twenty 

 four hours, and then worked over the second time, 

 and put in firkins. Our cellar being very dry and 

 warm, instead of putting the butter in the cellar, as 

 is usual, I put it in the well, in order to keep it cool. 

 I put it about twenty feet below the surface of the 

 ground, and there it has remained until yesterday, 

 when it was taken up. 



The above is humbly submitted, by 



JESSE PUTNAM. 



Danvers, September 30, 1840. 



DEAN ROBINSON'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on the Dairy. 



Gentlemen — The tub of butter entered for pre- 

 mium, is a part of the quantity made from the milk 

 of two cows, between the first of June and the 9th 

 of July last. The cows were milked night and 

 morning; the milk strained into tin pans, kept in a 

 cool place above ground. The cream taken off 

 while the milk was sweet, kept in tin vessels in the 

 cellar ; churned once a week, well worked as taken 

 from the churn and salted. In twenty four hours 

 worked again with the hands, and put into the tub, 

 which was kept in the cellar until two weeks past, 

 when it was brought up. The tub contains fifty 

 eight pounds. About fifty four ounces of the' best 

 salt that could be obtained, and forty ounces of the 

 best refined sugar were used for the tub of butter. 

 I am, with respect, 



Your obedient servant, 



DEAN ROBINSON. 



September 30, 1840. 



