The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-11-24

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made perfect in the dead of winter. with
allthe nutty taste of the best Orange
county summer grass butter, would make
an extra high figure, why not produce
such a quality, and make kind of har-
vest at the season of the year when
nothing is done, or worse than naught,
by come farmers? Some may say, /" II
cannot be done in this State; but have
done it in the north and the SOUTH in
States fairly representing all the others
it en- be done, and very easily, in any
part Of the Union, with no more trouble
than Is taken in the production of soapy
stuff Grow some mangolds and carrots !;
cut some grass just AS 1t has come into
bloom. and give it plenty of field room.
turning it often that it may dry uniform
Iy and be a sweet, bright looking article
OF hay. When winter commences, begin
feeling the cows in milk with roots and
the beautiful hay, and If come good corn
meal Is shaken over or mixed with the
roots, so much the better for the cows,
the butter and the manure !; the corn meal
will be well paid for, though hay alone
OF the description alluded to will make
hrst class butter. The right kind Of
food given to the cows is the first step
towards making fine butter, and without
thls being done the best dairy maid in
Che whole world cannot manipulate their
milk into the desired article. | believe
there are some men who have an idea that
1t Is a kind of extravaganza to have COWS
In milk during the winter; who think
calves cannot be raised which are dropped
insshe autumn, and believe tsan ought 10
IN k1. fha To- g..
store for the cold season Let them cat
che tub ana potted butter; bnt. while
fresh butter with Others appreciated,
an 80 long as there is market for first
class produce OF every kind, allow farther
seeing men to provide the essentials for
supplying the demand llEI
Salt butter in England is considered
very little better than hogs lard, and 10
never brought on any respectable PERSONS
table. 1t If used occasionally on toa [,
ana a good deal in making pastry, but
fresh butter and fresh meat are eaten by
everybody in comfortable circumstances
except that cold boiled ham and rasbers
OF rolled bacon are very common for
the breakfsst.-Oountry Gentleman
The VINEGAR PLANT.-in answer to
inquiries az to where this strange pro.
duction may be purchased or procured, I
my state that it is never offered for sale.
but may be obtained by the following
means. Leave little vinegar in small
bottle to become stale During hot, clos
weather is best), till film appears on the
surface. This film is the spawn or
mycelium Of species of mildew, and is
the inclpient state of the vinegar plant
proper. If few fragments If coarse
brown sugar be now added it will some
what aid its growth but when the film
has attained the thickness of parchment
1t ~ ready for transfer to strip, where it
som becomes the hCusewife's normal vim
egar plant. 8;Iaas r.a
Procure large jar or bottle and to
BWo quarts OF boiling water add half a
pound OF treacle AMI half a pound of the
cohlEnohest brown sugar /; stir we'll to.
gether. and when cool transfer the film
from the surface Of the vinegar to the
surface OF the asirup cover up to ex-
clude air, and keep in warm cupboard.
Ills Dim will rapidly grow and form a
tllck, slippery, gelatinous mass all over
tie surface of the strip, and in course OF
siN weeks or so the liquid will be chan
gef to excellent vinegar The vinegar
pint can now be taken and divided into
layers, or cut up into fragments, each
piece Of which if placed upon fresh sirup.
Wlli rapidly grow and change the liquor
TO vinegar. The vinegar should he
allowed to settle, an be strained before
1t is sed.-~W. G. S., in Irish Farmers
Gazette. ita a15 5
we md in an exchange poem called
tie Song of the Farmers Bow" begin
nlng Ho, rothers, no y Nothing could
be more appropriate, if the farmer sticks
t. his vocation but there be farmerboys
We wot Of who go to the city, whose song
after little while might be read "Rakt,
brothers. rake !! and be very appropri
a5e After while they SOW their wild
oats, cultivate tie affections of some bud
ding beauty-g1t silken tied to her-and
then the song is, Cradle, brothers,
cradle ?"
How A SPY WAS TREArED.-A
S'rasbourg story says that whilst some
French officers were at table IN cafe
they were Joined by stranger, who said
he was the friend of captain in certain
regiment. Conversation went on nm
restrained until the colonel of the said
regiment =" happened in." The stranger
vas introduced to him in the way he had
introduced himself. There was no cap
tain IN the regiment of the name men.
toned, but the colonel held his peace
end allowed the talk to proceed. At
length rising and asking. the stranger to
follow him for private chat, he took
INN into . hy-street, drew IA pistol, and
Shof him dead. The Individual was a
Prussian spy.
The German us are publishing, reading
ana admlrlng the military writings of the