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ness than we do. His rents and taxation are 

 often more than the whole receipts of a farm 

 of the same number of acres with us, and yet 

 he pays these and makes a large profit. 

 Best Stock for the Dairy. 

 A lengthy debate on the best stock for dairy 

 pm-poses,. resulted in these propositions : 



That it is neither safe or profitable to depend 

 on purchasing cows at random for filling up 

 dairies. 



That calves can be raised with better results 

 as to cost and quality. 



That care should be strictly observed in 

 breeding for the dairy in the selection of the 

 bull as well as the cow, so that the good quali- 

 1 ies of the one may not be counteracted by the 

 bad ones of others, and by this means we may 

 be quite sure of superior milkers. 



That good cows are cheaper than poor ones, 

 the best way you can fix it. 



Butter from "Whey. 



A statement was made in relation to a pa- 

 tent for making butter from whey, which 

 brought out the following statement by Mr. 

 Riggs of Lewis county, of his success in this 

 line, without the patent process : 



After separating the whey from the curd, 

 place it in a tin vat and add a liquid acid. 

 One gallon to the whey of 50 gallons of milk, 

 if the whey is sweet but less quantity if changed. 

 After this, apply heat until it indicates a tem- 

 perature of from 200 to 212 degrees, Fahren- 

 heit. When the cream rises and is skimmed 

 off and placed in a cool place, let it stand till 

 the next day. Then it is churned at a temper- 

 ature ranging from oG to 68 degi-ees, depend- 

 ing on the weather, and it is worked over and 

 salted in the usual manner of butter making. 

 It will produce on an average one pound of 

 butter from the whey of 1.50 pounds of milk. 

 The acid is made by taking any quantity of 

 whey at boiling heat after the cream is extract- 

 ed, adding 1 gallon of strictly sour whey to 10 

 gallons of this boiling whey, when all the casein 

 remaining in the whey is collected together 

 in one mass and is skimmed off. After the 

 whey is let stand from 21 to 48 hours, it is 

 ready for use as acid. This process is repeated 

 as often as necessity requires. 



Best Grasses for Dairy Stock. 

 The kinds of grasses, &c., for pastures and 

 meadows, and for soiling and feeding cows 

 being under consideration : — 



Mr. Lewis said he was aware he should 

 meet a fierce opposition in advocating the 

 good qualities of quack grass. He said it was 

 the most tenacious of life and did better than 

 timothy or clover for pasture. Quack grass 

 would grow either end up on the poorest soil, 

 and even on rocks (provided the rocks be cov- 



ered deeply enough with soil) , or even in the 

 best cultivated and ridiest soiled gardens. 

 Quack produced better hay than timothy for 

 cattle. Mr. Lewis virged upon the attention 

 of the convention the fact that nature never 

 designed that timothy and clover should grow 

 on every kind of soil. Soils that will not sus- 

 tain those popular grasses will produce abun- 

 dance of rich hay from other kinds of grass. 

 On the subject of grain Mr. L. said he had not 

 had experience lately in grain feeding. He 

 had let his grain "go to grass" until his friends 

 had called him a Nebuchadnezzar on grass. 

 After mentioning the different kinds of grain 

 and their quality as food for milch cows he ad- 

 vised the feeding first oat meal, second oat 

 meal, and third oat meal, thus expressing his 

 opinion on the grades of grains for food. 



The following recommendation was finally 

 read and apparently endorsed by the conven- 

 tion : — 



Grasses for hay or meadows on good soils — 

 June or blue grass, timothy, orchard grass, 

 red-top, smooth stalked meadow grass, tall fes- 

 cue, and fowlmeadow grass. 



For pastures on good soils — Clover, red and 

 white, smooth-stalked meadow grass, timothy, 

 orchard grass, meadow foxtail, sweet-scented 

 vernal grass, and last, but not least, June 

 grass. 



For pastures and meadows on moist soils — 

 Rough-stalked meadow grass, red-top orchard 

 grass, tall fescue, June grass, and floating fes- 

 cue. 



For soiling — "Winter rye, lucerne, red clover, 

 medium, fall oat-grass and millet. 



For pastures and meadows or exhausted 

 or wet clay soils — red-top, couch grass, and 

 quack. 



The questions as to the best course to be 

 pursued to secure fair prices for cheese, and 

 as to the expediency of publishing a "circular," 

 or paper, were discussed, on Wednesday, and 

 a committee appointed to solicit subscriptions 

 to the latter. 



The foregoing brief abstract of the proceed- 

 ngs of the Convention is condensed from a 

 fuU report in the Utica Herald. 



Connecticut River Agricultural Soci- 

 ety. — At the annual meeting of this associa- 

 tion, at Windsor, Vt., the following officers 

 were elected: — President, Henry Hubbard, 

 Charlestown, N. H. ; Vice President, Geo. 01- 

 cott, same place; Secretary, Alexander Mc- 

 Lane, Fairlee, Vt. Board of Management, in 

 New Hampshire : Hon. Robert ElweU, Lang- 

 don ; D. F. Tillotson, Orford ; Capt. Chester 

 Pike, Cornish ; George Rust, Walpole ; L. L. 

 Church, West Lebanon ; Joseph Powers, Ha- 



