Dairy Farming. 
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)ntrivances which have been introduced from America and 
j'enmark for the manipulation of butter are known : — tables 
Involving under corrugated cylinders, by means of which the 
le kneading of the butter for the extraction of milk is more 
?rfectly accomplished than by a careless hand — accomplished 
0 without the danger of losing the finer flavour which runs 
me risk of loss when large quantities of water are employed 
making up the butter : the plan, also, of taking the cream 
im milk set in deep cans for the purpose. Neither of these 
ans, though known as being to some extent recommended by 
imerican practice, is as yet to any extent adopted on English 
dry farms. To set milk for cream in deep vessels and to 
isten the process by surrounding them with cold water in both 
lys diminishes the liability which the cream and therefore the 
itter from it incurs of acquiring the seeds of decay by exposure 
the air. It diminishes both the area and the time of the 
.posure suffered by a given quantity of cream. Neither of 
ese practices is, however, as yet known in English dairy 
anagement ; and it has been my duty simply to report English 
actice as it at present exists. I will, however, so far depart 
)m this rule before concluding this Report, as once more 
bring under the notice of English as well as foreign readers 
p instructive method of recording the experience of a dairy 
lich was adopted nearly twenty years ago by Mr. J. Thornhill 
arrison, Mem. Inst. C. E., then of Frocester Court Farm, 
loucestershire — reproducing the diagrams employed for this 
rpose, which were published in the 'Agricultural Gazette' so 
ig ago as 1862. The quantity of milk from each cow taken 
ce a week is depicted in the upper diagram (page 432) whose 
les thus represent the daily produce in quarts of three sepa- 
te cows for each week from the twelfth to the forty-third week 
1 1862. It is evident that by a pictorial diagram of this kind 
t only is the behaviour, value — profit or loss indeed — of each 
1 w kept constantly and strikingly under the notice of the farmer, 
It a comparison of it with other records, as those of weather 
id health, for example, is full of useful instruction for his future 
fidance. And even more is this true of the lower diagram, 
'lich represents the milk produce of the whole herd in gallons 
I ' each week of the year to which each curve belongs. This 
( igram has been cut off at either end to admit it into the page, 
Classes 9 and 10. — Cheese Turning and Cleaning apparatus ; General adapfa- 
ty to its purpose. 
Clnss 11. — Automatic Machine for preventing the rising of Cream : Adapta- 
ty to its purpose. 
Class \2.--Milh Cooler : Time occupied in reducing the temperature a given 
liber of degrees, and the cost of doing it." 
