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DANIEL Putnam's statement. 



To the Committee on the Dairy : 



Gentlemen, — I offer for your inspection, two boxes of September 

 butter, containing 26 lbs., being a sample of 615 lbs., made between 

 the 20th of May and the 20th of September, from the milk of eight 

 cows, some of which have been nearly dry a part of the season, hav- 

 ing calved last autumn. The milk of more than one cow, has been 

 sold and used in the family, so that it would not be more than the 

 average milk of six cows. Their feed has been a poor pasture, one 

 quart of meal per day, with some mown grass, or corn stalks. 



Process of making the butter: — The milk is kept in tin pans. After 

 standing from 36 to 48 hours, the cream is taken off, and put into 

 tin pails. We churn twice a week. When the butter-milk is drawn 

 from it, we thoroughly rinse it in cold water; it is then taken from 

 the churn, worked in part, salted, an ounce of salt and one fourth 

 of an ounce of loaf sugar to the pound. In about 24 hours it is 

 worked the second time. 



DANIEL PUTNAM. 



North Danvers, Sept. 24, 1845. 



ON SWINE. 



The Committee on Swine, having attended to the duty as- 

 signed them, as carefully as the limited time allowed would 

 permit, Report : 



The exhibition of swine was, if not as large, in the opinion 

 of your Committee, as deserving the encouragement of the So- 

 ciety as at any previous meeting. There were presented for 

 premium, 



By William Williams, of Rowley, one breeding sow, 16 

 months old; four weaned pigs, 5 months and four days old ; 

 and one boar, 5 months and 4 days old. 



By D. S. Caldwell, of Newbury, one sow, 2 years old ; and 

 four pigs, 4 months and 28 days old. 



