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Dairy Notes by Harris Lewis. 

 Mr. Harris Lewis, Frankfort, 1ST. Y. — I will answer Mr. C. C. 

 Sherril as follows : First. There is no churn that will make better 

 butter than the old dasher churn, but there are several which will 

 make good butter in less time and with less labor. The churn known 

 as the revolving-barrel, or the revolving-box churn, and the Blanchard, 

 I regard as good churns. Second. In using any of the workers, care 

 must be taken not to work the butter too much. Third. Cream will 

 rise through a shallow mess of milk in less time than it will through 

 a deep mess, and where there is no cold water, or not a sufficient 

 quantity to cool the milk and control the temperature, shallow dishes 

 not over two and one-half or three inches deep will furnish the most 

 cream and butter. But where an abundant supply of cold running 

 water can be had, by which the temperature of the milk can be con- 

 trolled, and kept sweet a long time, there is quite a saving of labor 

 and money by getting the milk in deep or large dishes. A large pan 

 like the Jewett pan, capable of holding one mess of milk, is beyond 

 question the most economical of any arrangemeut we now have for 

 setting milk. Four of these pans are sufficient for any dairy. 



Washington Territory. 

 Col. Mercer, eleven years resident on Puget Sound, occupied half 

 an hour with a map of Washington Territory, indicating the charac- 

 teristics of that remote but highly-favored country, as relates toe limate, 

 soil and productions. Its temperature is equable; no sudden changes 

 from hot to cold, and vice versa. The highest point in summer is 

 ninety-two degrees, and no rougher winter weather than eight degrees 

 above zero. There is no chills and fever, and persons who go thither 

 with this disease are soon restored, and that too without medicine. 

 The lumber is abundant and large ; varieties : spruce, alder and 

 cotton- wood ; grain : wheat, oats, barley, rye. No corn, except a few 

 sorts for roasting. Don't house stook in winter, but ought to, and 

 will. Lumber is already sent # to Japan and China, and it migbt go 

 to Australia fifteen dollars per thousand cheaper than from any point 

 on the Atlantic slope. On the Pelouse is a region of rich prairie 

 land equal to any in Illinois, and almost as extensive as that State, 

 where thousands of farmers will soon locate and contribute to the 

 advancement of our commerce. Another wonderful feature that seems 

 to be little thought of is the stock raising interests of that region 

 between the Rocky mountains and the Cascade, and ranging from 

 South Oregon to Frazer river, in British Columbia. Cattle can be 



