Sorry, the last posting got sent before finishing up.

I bought my first gallon of raw milk and the cream is visible on the top of
the jar. I put this milk into two 1/2 gallon mason jars, and the cream is
still visible.

The cream is sooo thin compared to what I'm used to buying. When I try to
spoon any off, the spoon just mixes it up.

I don't have one of these
gadget spoons http://waltonfeed.com/old/butter.html
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Collecting the cream: You must first get the cream. You do this by letting
the raw whole milk sit for several hours. The cream will naturally float to
the top. You can skim this off the top of the milk. We used a `cream ladle'
which was a large spoon shaped piece of tin with holes in it - the holes
being about 1/16 inch in diameter. The milk ran out the holes but the cream
wouldn't. The cream was collected and put in the root cellar, the coldest
place we had. Every morning we collected the cream from the previous day's
milking and added it to the other cream we had collected. After about a week
we had enough cream to make a batch of butter. Note: the colder the milk the
thicker the cream. If you have the refrigeration, get the milk as cool as
you can without freezing it. Otherwise put it into a cool creek if you have
one handy.
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Help needed! I want to collect my cream