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mer or winter, if duly fed and kept in the latter sea- 

 son, she will render an average of seven pounds of 

 butter per week, from five to three gallons of milk per 

 day. Afterwards, a weekly average of three or four 

 pounds of butter from barely half the quantity of 

 milk. It depends on the constitution of the cow, 

 how nearly she may be milked to the time of her 

 calving, some giving good milk until within a week 

 or two of that period, others requiring to be dried 

 eight or nine weeks previously. 



I have heard of truly wonderful quantities of but- 

 ter, made from the milk of a single cow in seven 

 days ; but I have never been fortunate enough to 

 obtain one that would produce more than twelve 

 pounds per week, although I have had a Yorkshire 

 cow which milked seven gallons per day, yet never 

 made five pounds of butter in one week. In 1790, 

 residing at Sudbury Green, near Harrow, a servant 

 whom I had from a farmer in the neighbourhood, in- 

 formed me of a long-horned cow on that farm, from 

 the milk of which, given in seven days, was weighed 

 twenty-two pounds of butter: and in the year 1829, 

 Mr. Joshua Salt, of Lounsley Green, near Chester- 

 field, 'had a short-horned cow that milked upwards 

 of twenty-one quarts daily, from which three pounds 

 of butter was churned, making twenty-one pounds 

 weekly, of sixteen ounces to the pound: she calved 

 in Chesterfield race week. On the average, three 

 gallons of good milk will make one pound of butter. 



The following improved method of obtaining clotted 

 cream, has been discovered by George Carter, Esq. 

 of Mottingham Lodge, near Eltham, Kent, who pre- 



