PROCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 107 



A, No. 1 butter, made in accordance with the most approved method. Now, 

 suppose these neighbors meet, and the conversation runs on butter and 

 butter prospects. A says he washes his butter three times, and works it 

 twice after salting with fine dairy salt. B says he used to take pains, but 

 finds it won't pay; he washes it once, and salts it and packs immediately, 

 and gets as good a price for it as his neighbors, besides selling one pound 

 of brine in every ten pounds of butter, which is a difference of from $1.50 

 and $2 on every one hundred pounds. C says he used common salt, and 

 don't wash it at all if he is going to sell soon after making, and he gets as 

 much as the rest of his neighbors. Now, If Mr. A don't leave off trying to 

 make good butter, it will be because he is a very nice man; and yet this is 

 actually the way butter making goes here to my certain knowledge. Why 

 do our butter dealers show so little discrimination ? 



j\Ir. Carpenter contended that the difficulty complained of by Mr. Whit- 

 ford was occasioned by the agents of those who buy butter to ship to 

 Europe, who do not discrivninate as to quality, as those do who sell to city 

 customers, who will pay first price for first rate butter. With shippers, 

 color appears to be more an object than any other quality. He said: Our 

 firm have dealt in butter many years, and nearly every year have had the 

 butter of one particular dairy in Delaware county, N. Y., which always 

 sells high to those who are willing to pay for a good article, and that but- 

 ter is made by chui'ning sweet milk. 



Mr. John Gr. Bergen. — If there are not butter makers enough among the 

 regular attendants here, if we have the butter question before us we may 

 get some valuable information. There are many persons in the country 

 who can communicate valuable facts, which will be read here and published. 



Flowers and Fruits of the Season. 



This being a standing question of the Club, was now called up by the 

 Chairman. 



Rev. Mr. Weaver exhibited specimens of very fine looking red raspber- 

 ries, from plants which were sent to him by a nurseryman as Prancouia. 



Mr. Prince said they were not; that the Pranconia has a purple cast in 

 the color. These were not, therefore, true to the name. Mr. W. showed 

 two other sorts which he wished truly named, but no one appeared able to 

 name them. 



Mr. Prince made an exhibition of flowers, including several rare ones. 



THE FRAGARIA, OR STRAWBERRY FAMILY. 



Mr. Wm. R. Prince, of Plushing, L. I. — There was never a period when 

 the culture of the varied fruits of our globe demanded and received so 

 much attention at the hand of man as is everywhere now being devoted 

 thereto, amid the enlightened nations of Europe and America. 



It is a most beautiful and sublime truth, pregnant with divine power, 

 wisdom and love, that the fruits and other plants most necessary and con- 

 ducive to the comfort and the happiness of man, God and nature, in their 

 beneficent and harmonious arrangements, have spread most widely over 

 our globe. 



The strawberry is declared to be the most congenial and healthful to the 



