ON THE DAIRY. 49 



ISAAC CARRUTH'S STATEMEiNT. 



To the Committee on the Dairy : 



Gextle:\iex — I offer for your inspectiqn, a lot of 

 butter, made in Sept. We have milked four cows this 

 season, one of them was milked the last winter. We 

 use one cow's milk in our family, which leaves but 

 three to make butter and cheese from. From the 15th 

 of May to the last of August, we made 174 pounds of 

 new milk and 281 pounds of four-meal cheese, and up 

 to this time 204 pounds of butter. The feeding of the 

 cows has been grass only. The general management of 

 my dairy is to make butter and four-meal cheese until 

 the hot weather commences, then we make new cheese 

 until about the last of August, then butter, &c. 



The process of making is to strain the milk into tin 

 pans, set it in the coolest place, to remain thirty-six or 

 forty-eight hours, depending on the weather; the cream 

 is then taken off and churned twice a week. After the 

 butter is taken from the churn it is salted in part, set in 

 a cool place, to remain until the next day, when it is 

 wrouoht with the hands until all the butter- milk is out ; 

 then it is salted to the taste, which I should think took 

 about a tea-cup of salt to six pounds of butter, with the 

 addition of one ounce of the best refined sugar to two 

 pounds of butter. 



Yours respectfully, ISAAC GARRUTH. 



Andover, Sept. 27th, 1842. 



LUCY OSGOOD'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on the Dairy: 



The following statement is respectfully submitted to 

 the Committee on the Dairy, by Lucy Osgood, widow 

 of the late Mr. Jacob Osgood, who continues to carry on 

 the farm owned by him, and is aged seventy-four years. 

 Butter and four-meal cheese made by her in May, 

 June, and Septembei : — 



Butter made, 143 pounds. 



Four-meal cheese made, 246 do= 



7 



