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The following statements of Mr. Chcever arc published at the 

 request of the Committee : — 



STATEMENT OF MR. A. W. CHE EVER. 



To the Committee on the Dairy : — 



The box of butter presented by me for 3'our inspection, is a 

 part of a churning of thirty-four pounds made by me on Wednes- 

 day and Thursday of this week. Just one week's cream was 

 brought to the temperature of 63° by trial and not by gnens. 

 Found the cream 5° too cold, and brought it up by fire heat, stir- 

 ring constantly while warming. Churned moderately about one 

 hour. Could have churned a less quantity in the same churn in 

 loss time. When the butter was well gathered in the churn, the 

 milk was drawn oif, and a bucket of cold water put in place of it. 

 in which the butter was churned a few minutes. It was then 

 taken on to a table, or worker, where the milk was pressed out 

 before salting. Three-quarters of an ounce of salt was then 

 Avorked in, by lever power, to each pound of butter. After stand- 

 ing eighteen hours, it was au:ain brou<;-ht under the lever, and the 

 brine and milk all worked out that could be. How much there is 

 left, you will, of course, judge. It was then immediately moulded 

 and dropped into the box, as you see it ready for maj'ket. 



The feed used by the cows is green corn fodder, hay and grain, 

 in the proportion of about three-quarters corn, one-eighth dry hay 

 and one-eighth grain, consisting of two quarts of meal and three 

 quarts of shorts. The cows are turned out to drink and exercise 

 about three hours in the middle of the day. Commenced feeding 

 corn August 1st ; shall have enough from one acre to last two 

 months for eight cows. Planted it at seven or eight different 

 times, till July 3d, at the rate of forty kernels per foot, in rows 

 three feet apart. Very little has topped out, and next to none is 

 wasted. The earlier plantings were hoed. The later was culti- 

 vated only. The ground was very thoroughly worked before 

 planting, and manured quite liberally. As I make butter all the 

 year round, and do not let my cows calve oftener than once in 

 eighteen months, so that those that come in, in the spring, shall 

 not come in again till the second autumn after, I cannot obtain so 

 large an average from my whole dairy during the summer months, 

 as if I had my cows all come in together in the spring. 



The amount of butter sold from May 25th to Sept. 22d, this 

 year, was 630 lbs. Average number of cows, 6{S. Average 

 pounds per week, 35. Average per cow, between 5 and 6 lbs. 

 Average number of quarts per cow, June 22d, 8| ; Aug. 20, 

 11 quarts ; Sept. 23d, 9^ quarts. Average number of quarts of 



