Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-10


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Near the ceiling are small square win.
dows, in which wire netting is fitted TO
exclude flies and admit free ventilation.
The floor Of the spring house is Of oak.
plank, above which the water stands
about two inches and half, though 10
tho division where the creampots are
kept is about ten inches deep. A mar
row platform, raised four inches above
the floor, permits the dairymail to pass
around and set or remove the milk
pans. These arc painted brown ON the
outside, and have each bail, so that
two pans can be lifted up and set down
with more ease than can one without
the handle. The cream>pots and but,
ter-coolers are also painted brown on
the outside, which prevents the water
from rusting them, and makes them
more easy to keep clean. There are
standing in the milk-house three milk.
ings: when the fourth is brought in,
the first is skinned, and most of il goes
to fatten the Chester whites, that grunt
aud grow fat in appropriate clean>loOk
ing styes, not too far away. Into e:ch
new pan of milk is placed about gill
Of the sour milk thus removed, which
facilitates the rising of the cream. and
helps the butter come quicker on chnrn.
ing-day. The temperature of the water
in the spring was $50 on the hot July
day we tested it, and that of the milk
in the pans about $50; and thus it re.
mains during almost the entire heated
term so that we may safely say that
from The time the milk has stood an
hour in the spring house till the butter
is taken to market, the temperature new.
er rises above 60o. Once week the
cream is poured into the great churn,
which resembles young hogshead, to
the slaves of which, inside, the dashers
are fastened. and this is made to rerolve
by horsepower till the butter come
From ninety to hundred and twenty.
five pounds are made at a cburning, &C
cording to the number of cows MIXED
and the season. The butter is taken
from the churu, which, in the accom-,
panying. ILLUSTRATION, is marked b to the
butter.worker e, While with one hand
the lever is worked up and down thro
about ten pounds at time, with th,
other hand the butter is patted with .
clean towel in which a sponge is wrap
ped. This is frequently wrung out il
clean water, and the process continued
until all the buttermilk is worked out
whea It is sailed, half an ounce to I'll,
pound being the allowance. 1t is ther
made into pound balls, beautifully
stamped, laid in large square tin pan,
and set in the spring.house to cool, A
night when the next milking is brough
in, each ball is wrapped in clean cloth
and laid into the butter.tub to DO car.
ried to market in the morning. Thi,
butter-tub is so exactly fitted to til,
purpose for which it was designed, thai
wo linger a moment to describe it. Inn
ayine an obloug tub, higher than the
binary wash.tub, with two of the
slaves rising above the rest for handles
Into this is set a perfectly fitting tin
tub, SO made as to leave a space at each
end where ice may be placed, and a
small chamber below to receive the wa
ter as the ice melts. On tho sides Of
the tub are little supports upon which
the shelves rest, where the golden balls,
in their snowy coverings and, stamped
with images Of cornucopie or wheateO
sheaves, ropose. These tubs will COZ
tain from fifty to hundoed pounds,
according to size. They have tightly
fitting covers, and stout lever between
the handles, by which two men can
move them with ease. When they aru
put on the cars, they are jacketed with
padded carpeting, SO the heat of sum
mer's day never ponetrates the cool iu-
terror.
Every morning fire is kindled in
the caldron stove, aud the milk. vessels
thoroughly scrubbed with a brush and
then scalded. There are shelves along
the sides to receive them when not ID
use. Nothing is allowed iI the spring,
house but milk, cream aud butter. No
nails support knuckly of veal or q
joint Of lamb, no jar of soap-grease, no
chunk of dried beef, no pot of pickle,
no. plate of broken victuals. To all
such intruders the dairymaid would en-.
claim, if she talked. the language Of
Cicero, .prOcai, PyOcl o este, prcfani;'
Far hence, ye impiOus intruders; pOllutO
not with your foul breath these sacred
precincts The mystery. Of batter
making among these oonnOiseuss may
b. Summed in thFes particulars. -.
lat. A temperature unyaryine and
not above so degrees. This nav be
secured BY depth Of cellar where there
is not spring.