352 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
'When the jar is filled, put half an inch of salt and strong brine 
upon the top, and keep closely covered. 
My experience has been that a better article of butter can be 
insured by extracting the buttermilk without the use of water, as 
I am satisfied that the presence of either remaining in the butter 
impairs the flavor, and when the buttermilk alone is there it is 
easily discovered. 
Another valuable auxiliary for the good butter maker is a con¬ 
venient butter worker. I will here recommend one for its excel¬ 
lence, having used it for some years. I believe any person who 
will give it a fair trial will not return to the butter bowl. 
An oak plank (a board will answer if cleated to prevent warp¬ 
ing), of size to suit yourself, two and a half by three feet for com¬ 
mon sized farm dairies; place it aslant on a table or stand, then 
with an oak stick twenty inches or so in length, three inches in 
width, of triangular parallel shape, square at one end (to use in 
packing), with a handle at the other, the butter is easily and 
thoroughly worked and salted; with no occasion to put the hands 
into it, and while thus spread before you, every unwelcome mote 
is discovered quite readily, and can be easily removed. 
GENERAL FARM HUSBANDRY AND ITS ASSO¬ 
CIATIONS. 
Read before the State Agricultural Convention, in February, 1873. 
BY DR. C. L- MARTIN, JANESVILLE. 
Gentlemen of the Agricultural and Horticultural Societies :—I have 
been invited by my friend, Secretary Field, to make you a little 
practical speech. You neither expect or desire me to speak upon 
the science of geology or astronomy, and I was perfectly aware 
that all the ground of general farming would be taken up by eight 
or ten able men who were to precede me, I have concluded there¬ 
fore to take a by-path and make my speech a short one. Gentle- 
