A Valuable Cow.
--The Village Record notices the performances of a cow, the property of
Joseph G. Dickinson, of
West Goshen, Chester county, Pa, raised by himself, which produced in the last year three hundred and eighty-six pounds of butter, netting her owner $111.23. In addition to this, she supplied his family of six persons in milk and cream.
The butter was all cellar-made, and produced without churning.
The owner says:
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"We stir our cream in a cream-pot, with a stick, which will come butter in three or four minutes; we can take a small quantity in a cup, which will come in half a minute.
The cream is so thick that we can turn a pot of it upside down and it will not come out; one quart of cream makes one pound and three-quarters of butter.
The cow will milk up to her calving; she was purchased of
Wm Sharpless, formerly of West Goshen, when she was four weeks old."
Mr. Dickinson brought a specimen of the cream of his cow to the office of the Record, in a bowl, and with a stick churned firsts in
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