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butter and his January butter. He makes “June butter” the 
year round. 
The stone work was much of it done by farm hands. The 
hemlock cost $20 per thousand, and the pine $80 to $35. 
The whole building cost him $650. He gets ten cents a pound 
over the highest market price. Making, say 200 pounds a 
week, his gain is $20 a week by having the best arrangement 
for butter making. 
Thus his milk house pays for itself every nine months, to 
say nothing of the greatly increased facilities for doing work 
afforded by a pump, churn and stove so convenient. 
He consumes about a ton of anthracite in the four coldest 
months, and a slight allowance is to be made for wood used 
in summer to heat water for washing and scalding. Your com¬ 
mittee could see nothing wrong, and much that was exactly 
right about this house and this sj^stem, and wherever ice 
forms to the thickness of three inches and over, it may confi¬ 
dently be recommended to every butter maker who milks a 
dozen cows. 
BUTTER AFFECTED WITH CASEINE. 
From a little manual published by the Messrs. Blanchards 
of Concord, 1ST. H., and which they furnish to go with their 
churn, we find the following very sensible remarks: 
“ Tlie proportion of caseine remaining in butter, as ordinarily manufac¬ 
tured, is quite variable, depending upon the manner in which the cream is 
separated from the other portions of the milk. By the old method of set¬ 
ting milk in shallow pans and permitting currents of dry air to sweep across 
the surface of the milk, much caseine became dried to the cream so firmly 
as to be inseparable during all the after processes, finally becoming a por¬ 
tion of the butter. By the latter and more improved processes, with suffi¬ 
cient painstaking in the after manipulations, the proportion of caseine may 
be reduced to a mere trace. Upon this, and the proportion of the oleine 
and the neutral or flavoring fats, the quality of the butter depends, and to 
the accomplishment ot these two specific ends, he who would succeed must 
direct his efforts. 
“ The increase of the fatty matter is dependent upon the feeding and care 
of the animal, and to that branch of our subject such allusion has been 
made as our space will permit. 
