68 ONTHEDAIRY. 



an earthen pan and salted with one ounce of salt to a pound of but- 

 ter. It is then worked over again thoroughly, piece by piece, then 

 made into balls and put into the cellar, fit for market. 



I keep two cows, Flora and Kendall. Flora I keep for butter, 

 Kendall I keep for milk to sell and use in the family. Flora has 

 made 211 lbs. 2 ounces of butter since the 20th day of May, to the 

 20th day of September, inclusive. She calved on the 21st day of 

 April, and I kept the calf to her until the 13th day of May. From 

 the milk the calf left after sucking and all she gave until the 19th, 

 inclusive, we made 20 lbs. 8 ounces of butter, making in all 231 lbs. 

 10 ounces since she calved. Milk given to make the 211 lbs. 2 oz., 

 122 days, 4,375 lbs. 



Butter made from the 20th May to last of June, 84 lbs. 2 ounces. 

 In July, 52 lbs. ; August, 43 lbs, ; and in twenty days in September, 

 32 lbs. 2 ounces. Flora would have made rising 35 lbs. in the twen- 

 ty days, had she not met with an accident by jamming one of her 

 teats on the 14th, in consequence of which we did not use the milk 

 in that quarter of her bag for the last six days. She made 24 lbs. 

 the first fourteen days. 



Maimer of keeping the Cow. After she calved, I commenced giv- 

 ing her two quarts of meal per day, and hay, until the last day of 

 May. The 20th of May she went to pasture in a pasture by herself. 

 The pasture was good through June; the first part of July it began 

 to fail, and I took her out and put her into an old pasture with other 

 cows for three weeks; then put her back into her pasture, where I 

 kept her until the 24th of August, when I put her with another cow 

 in new feed. I commenced giving her two quarts of meal the 30th 

 day of August, one of rye and one of Indian, every night, but none 

 in the morning. She had no meal nor roots, nor any thing else, ex- 

 cept what the pasture afforded, from the first day of June to the 

 30th day of August. 



WARREN AVERILL. 



Ipswich, September 23, 1845. 



We, the undersigned, certify that the foregoing statement is true. 



ELIZABETH J, AVERILL, 

 ELIZABETH AVERILL, 

 ADAH KNOX. 



