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The button was rinsed in cold water, salted with Ashlon salt — • 

 taking great care not to over salt the butter, so as to destroy the 

 flavor and licliness which I think many do. The quantity made 

 from the 16 cows, I cannot ascertain, as we used it in my family, 

 which consists of seven personsj but the quantity sent to market 

 from April 7th, was 1,536 lbs. 



JAMES LEWIS. 



Goshen J Orange Co., Jan., 17 1848. 



JOHN HOLBERT'S 



Mode of making Butt:;r with Experiments. 



In answer to the questions propounded by you in relation lo the 

 butter exhibited by me at the Twentieth Annual Fair, I will state 

 that my cows are of native stock only; from the time they were 

 turned in pasture in the spring, until they were turned off, had noth- 

 ing but grass which was a mixture of clover and timothy, and for 

 three or four weeks previous to niaking the butter exhibited, they 

 were on gravelly land containing timothy mostly. 



The butter I sent to the fair, was made from twenty-nine cows, 

 about the twentieth of September: mode of managing as follows: 



The milk when drawn from the cows, was taken in the cellar, and 

 there strained in fourteen quart pails made of wood and tin; there 

 remains until becomes thick or lobberd, then the milk is put in bar- 

 rels and half churns, and the labor of churning is performed by a 

 horse generally; churn about one hour, then the butter is taken out 

 and washed in one water only, then salted with Ashton salt, and no 

 other ingredient is used; but the salt generally worked from three to 

 four times owing to the weather, when sufficiently worked is packed 

 in firkins, and when becomes full a cloth is put on the butter, and 

 then covered with salt and brine, then put away and remains so un« 

 til about the tenth of November, then the cloth and salt is taken off, 

 and the firkin headed up and sent to market, generally fetches from 

 18| to 25 cents per pound. About the first of December 1847, was 

 offered 22^ cents, but did not accept of the offer, and yet remains 

 unsold, (since sold for 24 cents.) 



