The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-09-08

not iEhict any oftheir most Ubiquitous meas
ures on the country. While engaged in
destroying each other the prosperity Of the
nation may probably escape tho destruction
with which it seemed to be threatened at
the close Of the late Presidential CONTEST
Let the Wings then retain their union, aud
when again they shallbe called on to select
a candidate for the first Office in the Gov
ernment they will IL discreet in their choice,
achieve an easy victory over the broken, fall
tering and plundering ranks ofLocofscoism.
But we must keep united, we must enter the
field with the determination to sweep from
power the corrupt and irresponsible dema-
gogues that have burthenedus with a double
amount of taxes and administered our laws
to suit the whims and caprices ofmere par
%tisans.
BUTTER AKISe.-[We find the follow
ing communication from Mr.. Philip Ply
sick, OF Germantown, Philadelphia county
Pennsylvania, in the last number of the A.
mericnn Farmer.''1
To he Editor Of he American Farmsr.-Sir:
The Philadelphia Agricultural Society
having awarded to me their first premiums
for the best butter, for the last two or three
years successively, persons are continually
applying to me for information, as to my
method of producing ii. Its manufacture,
: sc.
The Philadelphia market is, you know
full well, most highly celebrated for the ex-
c~ellence of its butter, so that the obtaining
of this premium every year for the best of
the best, is naturally a matter Of no small
qualification to me; but my real motive in
sending this communication for your Jour
nal, is to get rid of the trouble of writing
long letters to gentlemen and ladies | never
T heard Of before they took it into their wise
S heads to. make me pay postage for the hon
A or Of answering their queries.
| am not aware of anything new or I'M
. common in my formula, and perhaps my
success is more attributable to a well found
e ed system, and entire cleanliness, than to
q any other cause; but however that may be,
8 here it follows:
. About one week before the day of exhi-
bition, | turn all hands that can be spared
from other work, into the spring-house to
n wash, to scrub, to white-wash, &C., in short
to purify and clean the floor, the walls, the
shelves, the doors, &c, us perfectly as hu.
man means can prevail in extinguishing
every thing of a filthy nature or unpleasant
IS smell. Do not suppose from this, that my
spring-house is neglected during other por.
lions fthe year; on the contrary, it is KEEP
in more neatness and cleanliness than any
other one | know Of. The TN pans are Their
Of put into a large boiler, and boiled for one
hour, then taken out and secured with phit
situer sand and pure hard soap then rinsed of
in pure clean water and put away for use
j; Three days before the exhibition, the cow
Mt nre brought into a clean pen near the
III spring house; at day break their udders arr
at washed with plenty Of water and wiped will
:, a clean dry towel quite dry. Their milk il
:" then drawn into a tin pail that has beer
lie cleansed as the pans were. The milk j
IS then strained through a perfectly clear
X muslin ~strainer into the pans and placed il
the spring house; the same process is to b
: gone through at night, the next m ornin.
and evening, which will make four milkings
t. ON the next morning, the whole OF tn
contents of the pans, miH and cream unskinl
IF ed, is thrown into a churn, (this churn is on
of t%heIcommon barrel kind, it has been rims
= ed out with boiling water, with about G
lie a peck of hickory ashes and live Goals take
e. directly from a burning fire; this was stil
"a red about for some time by turning tn
: %crank-after, which the ashes and waite
~ were thrown out and the churn rinsed sew
IN eral times. with boiling water;) the COW
lie are then to be washed and MIXED as before
he and this milk strained and poured warm int
the churn the operation of churning
=. then commenced; it must be performed very
o. very slowly; the ~tenacity and hardness {
o. the butter depends entirely upon slownes
= in churning; to produce a first rate article,
should take at least three hours; when tn
!, butter has thoroughly come, it should b
w collected together with a clean wooden lat
lie and laid upon a clean linen cloth, sprea
out as fat as possible and not more tina
ng two inches thick, then take a clean coars
he cotton bag, large enough to hold a ha
,sb peck or more, fill it with ice, and with a ma
let mash it down fiat, and about four inch
re- es thick; upon this place the linen clot
with the butteron top, let it remain unit
I'd, quite hard, then place it if possible, upon
,ot clean marble slab, add very finely pulve
=. lied salt to taste, aud then work out I'll
ISL butter-m milk with the wooden spoon or ladl
Ell spreading the butter fat again and agai
ect and ,sopping up the butter-milk with II
linen cloth. This operation must also |
i; performed very slowly; when entirely d
vested of all butter milk make it up in form
by of pounds or half pounds.
of am well aware that all this is We,
ity troublesom, but what good thing can "
have in this world without care and ate
"a ton?
g. AS regards the best kind of cows, / a
ect sorry to differ with most Of my agricultur
ted friends-inasmuch as that, after an expel
of enee of more than twenty years, | find tn
r. the beautiful and stately Durhams, do n
produce butter or cream to compare at
ia quality with the humble, and | must a
nit, very mis- .shappen and ugly Attorney
leir | have had no personal knowledge of De
ons or Ayrshires, never having owned on
My Attorneys were imported some years
es- 20 by Mr.. Sarchette, from the Island
the Guernsy--a different animal altogeth
un- from the English A lderney,or rather from 4
,so Attorneys. that have been imported fro
England. l have frequently had swe
cream upon my table from these Aldernel
,or- SO thick or rich, or whatever you please