144 [Assembly 



MARTIN L. THOMPSOiN'S 



Manner of keeping Cows and process of making Butter 



In answer to your questions, the following is a true statement of 

 my mode of manufacturing the butter exhibited at the " Twentieth 

 Annual Fair." 



I have kept the past season fourteen cows, froih which I have rpade 

 twenty-one hundred and sixty-one pounds of butter, from the first of 

 April to the first of December, 1847. I have taken no pains with 

 my cows giving them no feed of grain or root kind; their grazing 

 has consisted of natural grass chiefly during the whole time. 



The course I adopt in manufacturing my butter is as follows : the 

 labor of churning is performed by two sheep, on a double wheel 

 machine; the butter is taken from the churn and washed in two wa- 

 ters, salted immediately after with Ashton salt, and then washed 

 again, then twice thoroughly worked, and is then fitted for market. 

 The sum received for the butter above stated has amounted to five 

 hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. 



MARTIN L. THOMPSON. 



Goshen, Orange County, Feb. 7, 1848. 



JOSEPH BLAKESLEE'S 



Mode of keeping Sheep. 



In compliance with the request of the Institute, I proceed to an- 

 swer the questions proposed: 



My flock of merino sheep numbers about one hunJred, which 1 di- 

 vide into two or more flocks, as circumstances require, during the 

 summer season. In winter I keep them in separate yards supplied 

 ■with water giving them as much hay as they will eat, with the ad- 

 dition of about four quarts of corn and oats mixed, to the hundred 

 sheep per day. The average weight is 3| lbs. per fleece. I am un- 

 able to state the price of my merino wool the past season — it having 

 been sold with a lot of coarser wool. 



JOSEPH BLAKESLEE. 



