Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-03-18

by cutting rather hlgh Tor green fodder,
We had a second growth from the part cut
first The part sowed broadcast looked and
yielded as usual. We thought the drilled
part yielded double in amount from the same
area.
The drills were run out with light pillow
three feet apart, then sowed by hand about
fifty grains 10 ioot-D. VI.
Mansfield, Pa.
Management Of Dairy and the Cows.
Why is there so much bad butter made ?
Who is to blame? ThesGarc questions which
women of observation can answer readily, and
which have been understood for years by ma
ny besides myself but our voices are seldom
heard, and when one does speak it is only to
those of her own sex, for she shrinks from
charging the real culprits with the cause Of
the disastrous production.
Al this season, in most parts of the United
States, there are eomplainings OF the trouble
in churning Of the length of time in " fetch
ing" the butter, and the bother in making the
cream sour enough to be churned, &c. Now
| have none Of these grievances mine comes
by being churned from twenty minutes to half
an hour, and my cream is generally quite
sweet. for the calves we are weaving and the
household use all the milk from twenty-four
to thirty-six hours after it is MIXED, which is
before it is acid, and as churn twice a week
my cream keeps fresh and sweet.
The causes for the yexatious hindrance aud
bad quality Of butter, are the poor feed, OF
the improper food given, setting the milk in
a bad dairy, not keeping the utensils clean
and setting women and children to churn
This operation, when more than two or three
COWS are kept, should be done by Il strong
man, who is resolved to make it come right
away The motion, at this time of the year
in particular, should always be kept up with,
out cessation till the butter separates and be-
gins to collect, for a stoppage of two minute'
only will do harm, and when the cream swells
that is the sign there will be butter in few
minutes if the movement is persevered in, but
the dasher moves so hard that the churnina
sacks or ceases, aud ruin will be the eonse
quenee for water is often added, (which is all
together wrong, unless in barrel chum
when there is no aternative,) or sometimes
the cream is half taken out, and regular
mess made
When everything is conducted right at tn,
dairy, the remedy for bad butter is to hay,
good sweet food for the COWS, given to then
in very regular manner 50 that they neye
; pine and become uneasy; give them no hay
which was made from grass of any kind thai
had gone out of bloom prior to being cut
Some pretend that young grass cannot b,
cured. Pshaw How is it cured in England
where there are ten showers for every on,
here, and the heat is fifteen degrees less b,
sure not to give any filthy stuff, called swill
though COWS can have their tastes perverted
50 as to make them relish nasty, greasy dish
water, sour-milk, &c; but let them eat greer
hay, fodder off cornstalks that have been en-
quite green aud well cured, aud pumpkins
carrots or field beets, but no turnips or swedes
any kind Of meal, shorts or brans, fresh AN,
sweet, aud as far as my experience goes, 70
fine favored butter, | prefer everything giyel
in natural way--that is, no dusty or coars,
food cooked, steamed or made up in any way
for il will be inferior in effect My husban,
has always been successful in forcing grea
7 quantities of milk, and having proved ahnos
every variety of food, our butter is uniforml
produce niee-tasting, rich butter, eonduce +
the health of the COWS, do not recollect eve
, having sick animal while in milk
The cream rises best in winter when tn
: dairy is protected at the windows, &c; so tina
no frosty air can enter only skim one,
which is Immediately prior to using the milk
7 aud, as before stated, that is generally all use
! for cooking, drinking at table, and for calve
weaned by hand. Thus, though am scrupu
> lousy exact in keeping everything sweet, an,
, having nothing in the dairy to faint the at
; mosphere, mymilk isput away in twenty -fon
} hours in summer and in thrty-six in winter
lrreguiarity in the time Of milking chang
Y ing the mixers, one person milking one da,
] or week and another the next, and Irritating
! the COWS by any means, such as driving theT
. too fast, having dog to scare them, disturb
} ing them by putting horses, oxen or strang
cattle among them, all tend to injure thel
Q and their milk.
Any one with capacity enough to escap