€2 HAMPSHIRE AGKICULTITRAL SOCIETY. 



Hence, it is for the interest of the farmer, who is about to purchase 

 cows for their butter making qualities, to test their milk. And here 

 it may be proper to state, that although the breed imported from the 

 County of Ayr in Scotland, is celebrated for great milkers ; yet, the 

 most productive Cow in butter, found in England, by the late Mr. 

 Coleman, was a North Devon ; she made 21 lbs. of butter per week, 

 for several successive weeks, without extra feed. An imported Bull 

 and Cow of the North Devon breed, are in possession of this Society, 

 at the residence of the President, for the convenience of the farmers 

 of this region. 



CHEESE. 



Sixteen parcels of excellent Cheese Avere presented to your com- 

 mittee for inspection. The statements are satisfactory, although they 

 might have been more extended. May the day soon arrive, when our 

 Dairies shall become to old Massachusetts, all that the dairies of New 

 York are to the " Empire State." The average annual product, in 1 846, 

 of the Dairies of Herkimer County, ranged from 500 to 650 lbs. of 

 <jheese per Cow. A Mr. Rottier of Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1849, 

 produced from 26 Cows an average, of from 125 to 150 lbs. of butter, 

 ^nd from 300 to 400 lbs. of cheese, per cow. 



When the farmers of the Connecticut valley will to have such pro- 

 jducts ; with the blessing of God, they will come. 



STATEMENT OF MKS. WM. MEREICK. 



I herewith present for your inspection a sample of six cheeses from 

 a Dairy of eleven cows. The following is a statement of the process 

 of making. The night's milk is strained into a tub; to which is add- 

 ed the morning's milk. After having taken from the night's milk 

 about two gallons, turn in the cream and place it in a kettle of scald- 

 ing Avater. When heated to a temperature of about 90 degrees, add 

 rennet sufficient to bring the cheese in about an hour ; when wheyed 

 off, press about two days, and turn daily till cured. 



STATEMENT OF MKS. OREN WILLIAMS. 



The milk, when taken from the cow at night, is permitted to stand 

 in a tub for that purpose, until the next morning. Then the cream 



