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particular variety of cow, but on the mode of making. This butter 

 is of a superior quality, because they make it of the richest cream, 

 and in large quantities at a time. As soon as it is made and washed, 

 they sprinkle it with sweet milk, spread it out in flatted cakes, larger 

 or smaller, but rarely containing less than six pounds, and lay it on a 

 kind of pan placed on hot cinders, and covered with a copper lid, on 

 which are put cinders, also. It remains there some minutes, more or 

 less, according to the bulk of the cakes. This mode requires skill 

 and practice, in order to succeed. 



Thirdly. With regard to the care and treatment of cows. They 

 should be kept clean — washed, if need be, and curried. The follow- 

 ing statement is copied from one in Ireland, who stated that he had 

 an actual profit of £331 6s. on keeping a single cow, in house, eight 

 years — during which she yielded 38,855 quarts of milk. In the sum- 

 mer he fed his cow on clover, rye-grass, lucerne, and carrots four 

 times a day, feeding at noon about four gallons of grains and two of 

 bran, mixed — giving her no more than she would cat up cleanly. 

 The feed in the winter was the same ; — feeding five or six times a 

 day ; — supplied her with food while milking ; — keeping the manger 

 clean — never tied her — being particularly careful to milk her cleanly 

 — milch cows being often spoiled for want of patience in the milker. 

 This neglect frequently causes suppuration and blindness in the teats 

 — the want of milk. The result of one year, the cow then being 

 eleven years old, is here detailed : She calved on the third of April, 

 and on the fifth of June the calves — twins — being nine weeks old, 

 were sold for £12 12s. From the sixth of June to the third of July, 

 four weeks, she gave twenty-four quarts daily, equal to six hundred 

 and seventy-two quarts, yielding seventeen pounds of butter per 

 v/eek, or sixty-eight pounds per month. From the fourth of July 

 to the eighteenth of September, eleven weeks, she gave twenty-two 

 quarts daily, equal to sixteen hundred and ninety-four quarts, yielding 

 sixteen pounds of butter per week, or one hundred and seventy-six 

 pounds for the whole time. From the nineteenth of September to 

 the thirteenth of November, eight weeks, she gave eighteen quarts, 

 dail^, equal to one thousand and eight quarts, yielding fourteen 

 pouinds of butter per week, equal to one hundred and twelve pounds, 

 &c. Total, for fortj'-eight weeks, averaging about fourteen quarts 

 per day, equalling five thousand three hundred and sixty quarts, 

 yielding five hundred and ninety-four pounds of butter. This, at 

 twenty cents a pound, would equal one hundred eighteen dollars, 



