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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01
Butter.MakiIg i'm Winter.

In the first place, the COWS should be
well fed, comfortably housed, and with free
access to water The mixer should be
very careful not to permit any of the
stable drippings to drip into the milk while
milking To prevent this, the milking
should not be done until after the cows had
been watered or the bag nicely wiped with
a wisp of straw.
When the milk is brought in, it should
be strained Immediately and warmed until
nearly as warm rs hot dish-water, but not
scalded. If large amount of milk it can
be warmed in a large boiler, but if only
from one or two cows, it can be warmed in
the pans on the stove, and when warmed
II should be set on rack or shelves, near
the cook stove. The milk should be
skinned within fortyeight hours If the
milk fails to sour, sour milk should be
added to the cream. The cream should
not stand over one week. If there should
not be cream sufficient to churn, add milk
to make a churning When churning is
to be DONE let boiling water stand in the
churn until the churn is warmed through :;
then let the cream be placed on the stove,
or the vessel containing it be placed in hot
water, and constantly stirred until the
cream tastes warm, or until sixty degrees !;
then pour it into the chum and churn your
butter; it will come in from ten to thirty
minutes. When the butter is nicely sep
arated from the buttermilk, rinse it down
with cold water; then take it into a butter
bowl and work it well in cold water until
the buttermilk is out; then add one ounce
of salt to one pound of butter for market,
and one and a quarter for family USE
The next day it should be worked over
and made into balls or packed in stone
jars for future use.
| forgot to mention that every farmer
should have plenty of carrots in order to
color the butter in winter. The carrot is
to be grated and simmered in water or
sweet milk over the stove an hour or two,
then strained into the cream Just before
churning
The reason why butter is apt to he bitter
in winter, is because it stands too long for
the cream to rise hence the necessity of
setting the milk in warm place. The
pans in winter may be filled full
| noticed an item rot long since in the
New York Ifibune stating that there was
a great deal of poor butter in the market
in the city. And there always will be as long
as the New York butter buyers instruct the
butter-makers TO salt the butter but very.
little. Butter in order to keep well, needs
to be well sailed, nicely worked, and well
packed, and the air excluded
Now let me add that know, from long
practical experience, that good, nice, sweet
butter can easily be made in winter.-E.
Il. Cal, IN tie Country Gentleman.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

"Then there were the buckwheat cakes
/ told Maria Ann any fool could beat her
taking those cakes, and she said | had bet
ter try it, So | did | emptied the batter
all out of the pitcher one evening and set
the cakes myself. got the flour and the
salt and water, and, warned by the past,
put in a liberal quantity of eggs and
shortening shortened with tallOw from
roast beef because l could not find any
lard. The batter did not look right, and
1 lit my pipe, and pondered. Yeast-yeast
to be sure. l had forgotten the yeast |
went and woke up the baker and got SIX
cents worth of yeast. set the pitcher
behind the sitting room stove and went to
bed. In the morning l got up early and
prepared to enjoy my triumph; but | didn't.
That yeast was strong enough to raise the
dead, and the batter was running all over
the carpet | scraped it up and put it into
another dish. Then L got fire in the
kitchen and put on the griddle The first
lot of cakes stuck to the griddle The
second dittoed, only more. Maria came
down and asked what was burning She
advised me to grease the griddle. l did it.
One end of the griddle got too hot, and |
dropped the thing on my tenderest corn,
while trying to turn it around Finally
the cakes were ready for breakfast, and
Maria got the other things ready. We sat
down. My cakes did not exactly have the
right flavor. | took one mouthful, and it
satisfied me. lost my appetite at once.
Maria would not let me put one on her
plate. | think those cakes may be reckon
ed dead loss The cat would not eat
them The dog ran off and stayed away
three DAYS after one was offered him The
hens wouldn't go within ten feet of them
L threw them into the back yard and there
has not been pig on the premises since.
| eat what is put before me now, and do
not allude to my mothers system of cook
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01
How Mother Did 1t.

lF we were TO suggest one, which, above
all other things combined, would most
contribute to the happiness of the young
hOusekeeper, it would be to learn how to
cook as husbands mother cooked
Mother used to make coffee so and so !;
mother used to have such wafiles: and
mother knew just how to make squash
pie and, oh if ! only could taste of
mothers biscuit Such are the comments
of the husband and of too many meal la
bles.
II would be only little more cruel for
the husband to throw his fork across the
table, or to dash the contents of his tea
cup into his wife's face. The experience
Of contrite husband is good reading for
those men whose daily sauce is chow
mother did it." He says:
Il found fault some time ago with Maria
AIMS custard pie, and tried to tell her how
my mother made custard pic. Maria made
the pie after my receipt. 1t lasted longer
than any other pie we ever had. Maria set
it on the table every day for dinner, and
you see could not eat it because forgot
to tell her to put in any eggs or shortening
1t was economical, but i'm "a fit of generos-
ity | stole it from the pantry and gave it
To poor little boy in the neighborhood.
The boys funeral was largely attended by
his former playmates. l did not go my
self
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01
Rules for Preserving Health.

PROFESSOR WILDER, in the Cornell Era,
offers the following maxims and rules
as guide in maintaining good health:
/. Prevention is better than cure.
.. Use good and palatable food, not high
" seasoned; vary in quantity and quality
according to age, climate, weather and Oc-
cupation. UnbOited or partially bolted
grains are good and sufficient food for dogs,
horses, and men; but nature demands
variety. As a rule, carnivOra are not
wholesome food. Hot soft bread digestS
slowly.
3 Cooking may spoil good food. Pork
should be thoroughly cooked. Avoid fry
ing meat boil, roast, or broil it, beginning
with high heat; but for soups, begin
lukewarm.
4. Three full meals daily are customary,
and may be natural but their number,
their relative quantity and quality, and the
intervals between them, are largely matters
of opinion. habit, and convenience; regu-
larity is very important.
}. Eat something within an hour after
rising, especially if obliged to labor o
study; but avoid both these before break
fast if possible, and particularly exposure
to malaria or contagiOn.
g. Let the amount of a meal bear some
relation to future needs as well as present
appetite; but it is better to carry an extra
pound in your pocket than in your stomach.
:. Eat in pure air and in pleasant COM
pany; light conversation and gentle eXer-
else promote digestion, but hard work of
any kind retards it. Avoid severe bodily
or mental labor just before and for two
hours after full meal.
8 Nasticate well eat slowly; five min
utes more at dinner may give you better
use of an hour afterward.
g. Drink little at meals, and never full
glass of very hot or very cold liquid.
Never wash down q mouthful.
10. Avoid waste of saliva.
II. Evacuate the bowels daily, and above
all regularly the best time is after break
fast partly to be rid of physical burden
during the day, but chiefly to relieve the
brain.
II. Constipation is safer than diarrhGa,
70" the former, exercise, ride horseback,
knead the belly, take glass of cool water
before breakfast, eat fruit and laxative
food lor the latter, follow an opposite
course--tOast, crusts, crackers and rice are
the best food. Pain and uneasiness of the
digestive organs are signs of disturbance
keep a clear conscience; rest, sleep; eat
properly; avoid strong medicines in ordi-
nary cases. Panaceas are p1'tDa0 tdcie
humbugs; their makers end takers, their
vendors and recommendOrs are knaves or
fools, or both.
Nature cures most diseases if let alone,
or aided by diet and proper care. There
are no miracles in medicine let us remem-
Der thai to keep and to get well generally
require only recognition of Natures pow
ers, with anatomy, physiology, experience
and cOmmOn-sense-and we may hope that
some day every man may be his own ply
stefan in all ordinary cases.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01
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OUR You've FoLKs.-In the December

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good done the land is neutralized; this so
far as the texture is concerned, and that is
the medium of fertility. One wet blowing
will effectually do this, even when done in
the fall or winter. The old condition or
worse will be restored. Where the land
is rich IA black, sandy mould with good
drainage, less harm seems to result from
wet blowing. But your yellow sand and
gravel-ridges, sprinkled plentifully with
clay, must be treated tenderly. We learned
this from a long experience.-Hearth and
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The December number is one of the richest and
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ATLANTIC MoNrHLY.-The December

ATLANTIC MoNTHLY-The December
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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

To give facilitating medicines to the weak is
about as sensible as il would be to try to help a
man to his feet by kicking him when he was down.
That sort of practice is going out OF fashion. IL
has filed so many graveyards that people no
longer believe in it.
If those who are not strong by nature expect to
avoid the attacks of disease, they must endeavor
to acquire the vigor necessary to resist it.
How is this to he done? Common sense sug
gcsts by the use of invigorating medicine.
The great object is to STRENGTHEN THE SYSTEM
WITHOUT EXCITING 1T.
This object l. accomplished by the judicious use
of the most potent and genial of all vegetable
tonics and alternatives, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers.
Many valuable properties are combined in this
preparation II improves the appetite and rem
ders digestion easy and perfect
1t gives steadness to the nerves, induces a
healthy. natural flow of bile; prevents constipa-
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stimulates the circulation, ana ny promoting a
vigorous condition of the physical system, pro-
motes. also that cheerfulness which is the truest
indication of n ell-balanced condition of all the
animal powers.
Summer leaves both the body and the mind
more or less exhausted. Now is the time to re-
cruit them and thus forestal the maarious fevers
and other complaints which PROSTATE so many
thousands every Fall.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

THE CHILDREN' IIOUR.-The Deem
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wish to put into the hands of their little ones a
wise counselor, loving friend, and a pleasant
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editor, will commence a serial in the January num-
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THE LITTLE CORPORAL MAGAZINE for
December closes the eleventh volume of that bril-
liant Juvenile. The magazine has now been
published five years and half, and has attained
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Illustrated. The November and December numbers
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WOODS HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE.-The
several departments Of the November number are
well filed with choice reading matter. The prize
story in this number is in the Young WOman's De-
partment, and is entitled = \ Woman's Way" by
Mrs. NJ A. Edwards. Published by S. S WooD,
Newburgh, n. Y. S100 year.
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THE NURsERY.-The December num-
Der contains two handsome full-page engravings
-"Blind Mans Buff" and THE Orphan Sisters
and about twenty other pretty pictures, illustrat
ing several neat little stories, sketches and poems.
The prospectus of this charming little magazine
will be found elsewhere in this weeks paper.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

a STORY is told by the Louisville Courier
J0arUal of a hearless old fellow who re-
Gently went to pick up the pieces OF his
broken wagon, instead of mourning over
the fate of his daughter and son-in-law,
who had been killed by locomotive while
crossing the track at Jefferson, Ky.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

JACOB SCHLAUcH, of Lansing, Mich,
recently received S1,400 from the sale of
land in New York. The possession of so
much money rendered him insane, and af-
ter hiding nearly the whole amount, he
committed suicide by hanging. The money
had not been found at recent date, and
Schlauch's family was in a destitute con-
dition.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

such fashion as to have the American
two year olds no forwarder than the Eng
lish yearlings. Iappeal to Englishmen in
America or to Americans who have visited
the agricultural districts of England and
attended the horse-fairs there, to say
whether the two-year-old farm colts are
not forwarder than three year-old ones
here.
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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

y MINNESOTA cheese maker who was
employed for some years in Madison coun-
ty, y, y, says as good cheese can be made
where the COWS have been fed on prairie
grass as where fed on tame grass.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

IN Massachusetts, there are twelve drug
gists doing business, who, either by their
own hands or by those of their clerks,
have each carclcSsly caused the death Of a
person taking their medicine.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

WE invite attention to the advertisement in
another column. of THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA
CO., of New York city The hint TO parties
10 get up clubs for their goods is worthy
Of notice This company has been established for
ten wears and their numerous patrons give them
full credit for reliability promptness and fair deal
ings. and all testify 10 the excellent quality and
their goods to give satisfaction or refund the
money and expenses, risk is run in sending
them an order
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Our Conclusion.

Our Conclusion. AS Ear are able to judge
and we have given the subject little consideration and
attention. the conclusion which the scientific world the
press and the public have arrived with regard Ia ands
SRA Moss FsRTNs founded ON incontrovefube facts
and we have hesitation In warmly recommending the
article 10 our readers essential of thu economic cu
sine and ~ n genuine luxury. To dyspepucs, invallds
and all those requiring light and delicate food We fe,
assured N win prove Invaluable blessing In fact.
can hardly say too much in favor of this most delicious
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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01

In numbers there is safety. 1t was upon this
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We take delight i'm referring our afflicted friends
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can be procured We advise our friends to use 1t,
because we know its value in curing Fever and
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countries IL should be kept at hand in every
,amily Sold by medicine dealers generallu
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by u.iu2 old Axe. send Sl-90 10 i-ilIIN
COTT a BAkENEGL. Pittsburgh. Pa. aud they VII
send tip-top axe. ENpsSagc paid. Hall day lost III
grinding VIII thus BIZ saved.
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PRUssING'S White Wine Vinegar is a most
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