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change pastures, often, and would recommend changing twice a week. 

 I have tried several experiments in ray dairy the past season, among 

 which are the following, commenced making butter about the first of 

 April, and up to the 4th of May, 1 made 512 pounds of butter. 

 May 5lh commenced packing for the fall market. Made in May, 26 

 days 747 pounds : in June 30 days 1186 pounds : in July, 31 days 

 1079 pounds : in August 31 days 1016 pounds, and from September 

 1, up to December 15 three and a half months, which is about the 

 close of the season for making butter in this vicinity, 1948 pounds. 



I drew the milk from five cows for 30 days in succession j com- 

 mencing with the 28th of May, with the following result, viz : I 

 made 248 pounds of butter in 30 days from five cows. 



On the 11 of June I drew from five cows 187 pounds of milk 

 which made when churned 8| pounds of butter. June 15th drew the 

 milk from 37 cows, morning mess, 525 pounds, evening mess, 632 

 lbs in all, 1157 pounds of milk and measured 136 gallons, and when 

 churned made 43 pounds of butter, making 3 lbs, 11| oz of butter 

 to the hundred pounds of milk. 



My cows are generally the common breed ; I have few that have a 

 slight mixture of Durham blood in them ; I keep swine to consume 

 the buttermilk ; I do not raise all of my calves, but always save a 

 few of the finest, this year I have raised six ; I use the Turks Island 

 salt, of the Ashton sacks and no other ; I find that 100 pounds of 

 milk drawn from my best cows, that is, those that give the richest 

 milk, will make one pound more butter than one hundred pounds of 

 milk drawn from the whole herd ; There is more diflerence in the 

 quality than in the quantity of milk for making butter, dairyman 

 therefore would do well to look to the quality more than to the quan- 

 tity of milk each cow gives ; I find by churning the milk of each 

 cow separately, that one of my best cows will make as much butter 

 as three of my poorest giving the same quantity of milk ; I have 

 kept a dairy for more than 20 years, but I never knew until the past 

 seas'^n that there was so much difference in cows. 



I am inclined to the opinion that too many dairymen overstock 

 their farms, as one cow well kept is worth, for dairy purposes, two 

 cows poorly kept, ami then they keep their pastures too short, 

 which injures the land, as land left in the fall with a heavy coat of 

 grass, will produce pasture earlier in the spring and will stand a 

 drouth the next season much better than those pastured short. 



