New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-26

COW feeds Tor swettnets rctr and solidty In the
same ratio as cows vhion feed rertly on gar e. .ili
onons end rutsbsgae eosd butter u f for table use.
AND With the ame Iesulf az TO keeping Tho Iona,
this lino Of butter is ieot the more offensive II he
comes while butter msce when the COW pe,s NOTHING
but the sweet high favored grasses will improve p
from three 10 four months
am Tstter iDcUe &c TO think hat your corrsDondent
not gooc butter. maker for had water coaatrv.
! iabcy his vie Is the buttermster, and If he viii
take the touble 70 Dqui.e, she will inform bin that
no rst quality Of butter be mace eit or In Noyem
Der or august. While thu one too cold with frost
bteD ersss, the other is qQe too VAIN; add without
Ice 1t Is Impossible 70 make fire, quality butter. Aod
even With Ice, believe lhazsrd Dotbi ia saying it is
so difficult task that package containing 100 pousds
has never been fousd ia the market.
Nov If hard and soft w.ter lands are to have f.h
ttf so ss TO decide which Ia best Jted 10 making
fret quality butter tho trial certain y snoud take place
az the seesoD when FIRST quality butter can be- made.
Msy and September are the two best moths 10 this
latitude, with part Of June, something depending on
abe season,
whether believe that grasses well adapted TO the
production Of first qusity butter do not grow on
nafd water land a. on soft, bat 90 mean that II IL
)ost as inoispepssby necessary to have soft water 70
wash The mix from butter il lie to have soft water
10 watb fine liDeo, to water rot * to make the
hBr soft, or TO water plant. By this do not Wish
to be uDcersOod saying that hard water lands are
not best Tor some crops, or even thst hard water s not
years ID liDe.wsfer properly prepared, which would
81 II in soft water in twenty days.
And 1t is by no means iLvarisbls To ,tin lime stone
ocuD9y the springs or Streams are of hard water,
though ususy they are. IL some localities they are
just as soft the rain that falls fro the clouds
which was absorbed sitbin a pe distant, from some
hard water lake, or pool or the ocean itself.
Ii may be ssio that many OF the pest utter 8kers
do not wash their butter. OF this fact sm quits we'll
aware and In the vicinity OF Philadelphia whore they
axe IS good butter for Immediate use "a anywhere
tbfy Uas their butfar IN / iiovo AZ
would be improved for immediate there or here,
by washing; but do 10 say, aud on this point
wish to DC distinctly understeo3, that to YORK butter
sufficiently to separate every particle OF mlx 90 thai
it will keep yesr would destroy the grain aud render
II oily. Aft.r keeping few months it would exhibit
The bad effect. ano the longer should be kept the
more 70 ciptibly Injurious would that effect be.
The plan which your correspondent proposes, al
your sUggeftoD, to test the question, is prsctosbe
and fair, and should be tried. / will zee that SOM
butter made from soft Ha;er land by far test is for
wsidtd in March or April 1857, as the butter cannot
be II ode until Sc.
Meantime ! think ! can suggest plan whereby
but er mskers on bard water land if skep.ics, Gao
satisfy Themselves fairly. Ia May, when grass k
gooo wOik one crock, without washing 10 your best
maIDet; then take rain water and wash, as 5000 as
your cbuiOg is comp eted all the milk from this but
ter Be careful in washing TO phil the butter owe,
with adle 90 not seoi the grain; then gu! il
away iD sweet cool place, out Of the reach Of
any bad p6aence Of which it can psrtake, until il hs
ASSUMED s proper color; then work 1t over oy hand
sno lay IT down IN Jour crock; and afr it is laid
down The same must he taken TO keep it through
the season. common farm cellar, with meats fsa,
aDd vegetables, would spoil In Sky days the best
package of butter ever made. Then In Ike manner,
o. ia yoar own way, wash another with wafer hat
you know to be hard springs III at lard IN
dry weather in the rainy seasons 4rly soft; lay
down ana keep both parcels near alike as possible
without sal butter does no. require sst to preserve
il sny more tben ard cOes. Salt is only necessary fo
the purpose Of havoIiDg anything tia rs not ps'ats
bic. Salt can be worked In al any tine. Then pursue
The PANE cOure with three more packages sailed with
Liverpool salt, and observe the result. You vii
probably be as well Satisfied as am that hard water
Injuries butter. a. Is. DICKINSON.
Ho1nby, Neto York, Dec. 0. 1855.