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Song: Mr. Jules Lombard. 

 Duet. 

 On motion of Mr. Monrad, a vote of thanks was tendered to 

 Messrs Lombard and Erfert for the music furnished by them. 

 Adjourned to nine o'clock A. M. next day. 



The Convention met at nine o'clock A. m., Jan. 12, i 

 The president in the chair. 



PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION IN MODERN FARM 

 BUTTERMAKING. 



BY MRS. R. A. PETHEBRIDGE, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



(Accompanied with explanations and remarks by Mr. Pethe- 

 "bridge. ) 



Mr. Pethebridge: I think there can be great improvement 

 made in the way of farm butter making in this country. All 

 farmers are not so situated that they can send to a creamery, or 

 to the city, and there is no reason why the farmer and his wife 

 cannot turn out the very finest possible goods, because he has 

 his own cows and he can treat them as he wishes and he has 

 command of everything, the feed, the handling of the milk, which 

 is the most important thing, and everything else connected with 

 the process. The beginning is where the improvement has to 

 be in the care of the milk, and he should study dairying from the 

 commencement to the end, and the fact is that if you are only 

 once educated it is just as difficult for you to go wrong as it is to 

 go the right way to work. I am going to demonstrate the 

 system that is practiced in a small way in making butter upon 

 the farm. 



The first thing to do is that the churn and butter-worker 

 should be soaked in cold water from twelve to twenty-four hours. 

 After that they should be thoroughly scalded with as hot water 

 as you can possibly get, then not allowed to dry off, but simply 

 cooled off with cold water. 



