American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-13
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How to Produce Good Butter.

uUW u IIOuuC0 GOOQ HuCLefs
Although Il scrupulous cleanli
ness is absolutely essential i'll eve
.rything that pertains to the dairy, as
well as perfectly pure atmosphere
in and around its precincts, for the
production of good butter, there are
other things connected with success
full dairy farming that are equally
essential, and where not attended to
serve to cast blame on those in ac.
tual contact with the dairy, while
the real culprit is never thought of.
Let matters in and about the dairy
| be ever SO we'll ordered and conduct
! ed, if the cows have not got good.
sound, sweet feelings, it is perfectly
impossible to produce good butter.
| Milk is one ofthe most delicate pro
ductions the farmer has got to deal
with. Heritage or food of any sort
that contracts the slightest flavor or
Iimpurity, communicates it instantly
to the milk, as it is secreted In the
summer and autumn months the pas
ture should he as carefully weeded
of noxions, bitter, or il.tasted plants
and weeds as is the neatCst kept
flower garden.
1t is a well known fact that tur.
nips of any sort communicate an I'M
palatable flavor to milk and butter !;
and although many noStrums have
been suggested to rectity or remove
that faint after the milk comes to
the dairy, perfect success to that
end has never been attained, though
in some degree mitiga;ed: Pre-.
vention is better than cure" is an old
adagc, and as applicable in this case
as any other. The faint has been
communicated in the first instance,
and then we seek for some nostrum
or remedy to neutralize it, while we
forget that the true way would be
not to permit the communication of
the faint.
As it is in the winter and spring
feeding of milk cows with turnips,
so IL is in the summer feeding of
dairy stock in the pastures, where
are many herbs to be found that
are not deleteriOus, but, on the
contrary, their natural instinct leads
them to browse upon as conducive
to health, at the same time doing SC
Injuries the flavor of the milk and but
ter. Tho there are many plants that
the natural instincts of cows teach
" them to avoid, there are others found
more or less abundantly in pastures
that it leads them to eat, which
though conducive to their health
faint the milk most abominably
Poor, innutritive pastures, covered
with deleterious weeds, cannot pro
duce good, sound milk and butter
so it is also in the winter; the COW!
should have good, sweet food givel
them at regular intervals, SO as no
to allow them to get uneasy ant
fidgetty the hay should be mad
of grass that has not gone out o
flower before it is cut.
Dlsty, musty, coarse food cooked
up so as to make it palatable, SHOULD
be avoided. The yield or quality o
butter cannot be good on such food
though the dairy itself be conductet
in the very best manner and, be
sides all this. unsound, unwholesom
food, has deleterious effect on til
health of the COWS, which town da
rymen feel to their cost.
. Impurity in feeding either in sun
mer or winter, is uDquestionably th
cause of the great complaints we IT
ceive of the length of time it takes
. churn. and the difficulty experience
In gathering the butter; in som
cases of it's not coming at all, an
the paleness of its color. If after
tion is paid to their feeding; tha
they get nothing but what is SCUM
and good that they get pure water
that the dairy is kept thorough
sweet and clean that the air is rur,
with no foul sewers or dung hear
near it and that strong men are pit
to churn instead of weak women {
girls, and that no stoppage is ALLOW
ed i'll the operation, even for mil
ute, till the butter is come, there W
be almost a certainty that the chur
ing will not exceed half an hour, an
that it's quality will be Cverythin
that is desired but if bad graz
mixed with deleterIous weeds, mus
or half rotton meal or hay, be give
"no dalrymaid, however clever 81
gb, may be, can make good butter b1
If nice, green, sweet hay, those kir
of roots that impart no unpleasa
taste, and fresh luscious meal
given, it must be dirty, lazy,
foolish woman, that can make int
rior butter"
Other points to be attended to al
regularity as to the time of milking
if the proper time be passed, the co
gets uneasy and feverish, to the
jury of the quality of the milk. T
same person should milk the sar
COW changing the mixer frets t
animal, and she gives her milk rell
family. If the pasture is near t
cowhouse, the cows should be quiet
and gently driven to it; but no ovt
, driving, striking with sticks, or w
rying with dogs allowed and if t
house is too far away the COWS shou
be MIXED in the field, and the M
carried home.-IriSh Farmers G.