Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-06-26
The Farm, Garden, Kitchen & Shop.

editor OF the Springfield RepuDllcan
A few weeks since / noticed timely
article in the Republican, relative to
butter, for which permit me to return
thanks, and proffer few suggestions.
You state that butter is not deficient
in quantity, but in quality. AT the |
same time you more than hint that
this evil results from an unwillingness
of American housewives to contlne
themselves to the care absolutely nee
essary to make good butter, leaving
the Bridgets to perform the labor.
will not attempt to palate or excuse
this assertion. In the first place, the
profit of selling milk in our large cities
and large villages, also in supplying
milk to cheese factories, influences the
farmer to keep such cows as only give
a large quantity OF milk. Generally,
from such herds, there can be made
only inferior butter. Another cause
of your just complaint is the common
practice of country merchants, who
do general business and take butter
in exchange tor goods q forbear to
mention the high per cent Of the 5ame)
The butter is taken from all at a very
general uniform price, and thrown
promiscuOusly into tubs or jars with
covers only slightly closed, or packed
and sent to market, some OF the rolls
sweet butter, and some only fit tor
the soap manufacturer. | would ask
what encouragement the neat, indus
trlous yankee woman has for spend
inc her time and energies i'll making
prime article OF butter for the table,
when a slatternly neighbor, with t&r
less care and labor, will get the same
price or nearly the same for her mis-
cradle product? When the intelli-
gent of the community demand only
tirst-clasS butter, and the merchant
regulates his price in accordance with
the quality, as he does cloth, then
American women will have an induce
ment to furnish, outside their own ia
BILE, nice butter. Please accept a spec
linen of our farm butter (not colored
artifciaIly, ) from the milk of blood
ed herd of cows, fed on hay only.
CALVIN CUTTER.
The specimen of butter accompany
ing the above testifes most thorough
ly and appetizeingly to the skill OF
Mrs. Cutter in butter making. The
art is certainly not Iost" one yet
but it is still to be regretted that SC
few are acquainted with it.
HIvING BEES. when bees allowed
to swarm naturally, everything shoulC
be in readiness before the swarming
season arrives, so that when swarmt
come of there may be no confusion
or difficulty in living. Hives shoulC
be kept cool, and nineteen times on
of twenty they will cluster all right
As soon as they have settled, prepare
to hive them.
Fust.-Briug a dish Of cold water
and with the hand or a whisk of grass
sprinkle the cluster we'll. This vii
make them perfectly quiet and cas-!
to handle. Bring out a table, or il
that is not convenient, spread a clotl
or boards upon the ground, and if the,
are to he ,hived into eopmn9 ,ho7
or straw hive, set 1t upon the table o
place prepared for it, raise up on
side an inch or more, and put under
chip or a stone to hold it. The
shake your bees into a pan, baske
pail, or any dis: that will hold then
and turn them down near the hive
and they will at once commence to ell
tor. If it is desirable to have thel
enter faster than they are naturall
inclined to do, take wing and win
them in. AS soon as all or nearly a
are in, the hive should be carried
its stand, and well shaded ii the 81
is shining New hives or newly pam
ed hives should be shaded Tor sever
DAYS. a. bees cagal, toy mi oa oyt
heated hive. i. .ae bees cluster uF'
limb, from which Ii would be III
cult DO shake them, the limb may
cut OH with a saw aH8 iaid acai T.
myr; the bees Wi, soon leave and {
ter. Sometimes bees will cluster U
on the body of tree, when it is di
cult to get them of without irrltati
them They should bc well sprinkle
and very carefully brushed of with
wing or qm,, feather iuto dish, u
carried 10 the hive as before stat,
An inexperienced person, or noNr
should Ia iii, case wear uut prov
tor. II viii give diem courage, a
they will move more carefully.
SwarmS should never be allow
to stand where they are hived IN
evening, as is the practice with sol
but should be moved at once to tn
stand, as some Of the bees will 90 il
the field to work In ten minutes at
they are hived and if left until e
ming large numbers will have &C
menced to work, and having mark
the spot will return the next day, q
not finding the hive, will wander ab
and many will be lost. SecC
swarms are generally far more irri
BILE than first or top swarms; hen
these are far more likely to sting;
cold water will soon quiet them, {
they may then be hived with SAFE
Canada Farmer.
RYE AND INDIAN BREAD.-Mrs. III
Prentice of Dakota, sends the foil
ing recipe to the American Instit
Farmers Club:
My method is for a good thick
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