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Besides making the above quantity of butter, we have 

 used milk for two families, about two gallons per day, 

 during the season. 



Yours respectfully, 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 

 Hamilton, Sept. 23, 1844. 



NATHANIEL F E L T O N ' S STATEMENT. 

 To the Committee on the Dairy : 



Gentlemen, — I present for your inspection two boxes 

 of September butter, containing 25 lbs, being a specimen 

 of 861 lbs. made since the 20th of May. This butter was 

 made from the milk of eight cows. The feed was com- 

 mon pasturing till the first of August, since then they 

 have had corn stalks once a day. We have used milk 

 for ten in the family. 



Process of making: — The milk is strained into tin pans; 

 it stands from thirty-six to forty-eight hours, in a cool 

 cellar, when the cream is taken off, put into tin pails, 

 and stirred every day. We churn once a week ; during 

 the warmest weather the cream is placed in the well 

 about twelve hours before churning. After it is churned 

 the butter-milk is thoroughly worked out and the butter 

 is salted with three quarters of an ounce to the pound. 

 After standing about an hour it is again worked and 

 weighed, each pound separately. 



One of the cows has been in milk seventeen months. 



NATHANIEL FELTOxV. 

 South Danvers, Sept. 24, 1844. 



BENJAMIN B O Y N T O N ' S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on the Dairi/ : 



Gentleinien, — The butter I offer for inspection, was 

 made the present month. I offer 25 lbs., being a sam- 

 ple of 190 lbs. This butter was made from the milk of 

 three (small) native cows. Their feed was pasturing 



