Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-03-25
Westminster Farmers Club.

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ing of butter and cheese"
ESSAY BY o. $. BLISS, GEORGIA, VT
EXTRACT.
Butter isl necessity of life and luxur,
that we may enjoy, though tits said that +
of the Vermont butter sent to market i
not fit for table use, and is attempted Il
be purified by going through certain ma
nipulations, and coming in contact will
certain deoderizers, to dispossess it of it
obnoxious impurities. This is accounted
for in want of skill in the manufactur
ing. Mr.. X. A. Willard says all Orange
County has been reckoned among tn,
gold region. Orange produces the bes
milk and the best butter. | have exam
ed the soil of Oneida, Herkimer Co., N
Y. Their butter brings 40 cts. while
Orange brings 70 cents, Their soil and
climate is well adapted, but they now
throw upon the market greasy article
unstable, much for want of knowledge
in carefully caring for their milk. Old
pastures clear from weeds are best,--the
longer they have been in use the better
for they will produce some twenty varie-
ties of grasses, containing all the ele-
ments requisite to produce good milk
Some discard old pastures, preferring new
with but few varieties of the grasses and
supply the deficiency by sowing millet,
corn. &c. But the most succulent grass
es grow upon moderately fertile lands.
Cows are different They
are machines to convert the substance
into milk, and / would prefer pastures
growing all the better varieties of the
grasses. Weedy pastures are injurious,
though no healthy COW will eat to injure
herself or milk if not starved too.
Swamp lands and lodges are to be con-
demned. Good pure soft water better
than hard though they may be habituat-
ed to freely use it. Again one will facil-
itate in the keeping of butter better than
the other. Then judicious selection of
co MS is important. One will be exceed
ingly remunerative, while the other will
not pay for her keeping; one will dis
seminate and convert her food into milk
better than the other. Some sell their
COWS in fall and buy in spring, the pro-
priety of which | doubt, unless every
time saving the best, for very seldom can
you buy mans best cow. The contour
requisite for, or points to indicate good
mixer, are slim neck and head, round
barrel, broad hips, large long milk veins,
large lean udder, teats wide apart and of
fair size, milk easily and rapidly drawn.
Breeds: Native sometimes good
but will not equal the bic DDS. The thor
ough-blood. To start
herd would not recommend to start a
dairy from the Native alone. Save all
the good heifer calves. The Durham.
Jersey, Ayrshire, Holstein, &C., are differ
emit. The Jersey are best for the quality,
though perhaps better for a gentleman
COW to run upon the lawn or park, to
supply the family, than to herd. The
milk is prolific for butter being 81 to
21IsoHU of common milk. The Ayrshire a
great cheese maker, the Holstein also.
The short horn (some families are the best
among our dairy-makers. < Unventi-
lated buildings, muddy yards are more
Objectionable than open cold buildings,
though you might get more milk but
would not make as pure butter Stables
under the hay NOW all the odors enter
ing the hay, and the COWS eating the
same, thus affecting the milk, also often
manure is heaped up behind the cows,
then again want Of bedding under the
COWS to absorb the gases during the milk
ing times. Then again the milk-room is
improperly located should not be near the
kitchen or any other offensive odors. + y
Milk needs not much current of air-bet-
tercool with ice, or vault part in ground
and part out filled with water of the
temperature of 4So to $50. The amount
Of cream produced from milk does not
depend upon the surface, for it is found
by experiment that milk strained in
pals 8 %, set in water, will produce
the most cream to the quantity of milk.
When milk begins to sour no
more cream will rise. Mix should cool
soon enough to expel the animal heat in
twenty-five or thirty minutes. Orange
county butter makers say they can make
more butter with the old Dash Churn.
Among the many good churns would
recommend : Blanchards." * x
Packing-By all means use the " Return
pals, Westeott's, made of oak about an
iuch thick, kill-dried, with lid fastened
by hasp, nearly or quite air tight, costing
s24 per dozen, instead of the miserable
ash or spruce tub with cover three
fourths of an inch too large and leaking
BRINE at every step. / believe Vermont
would receive $4,000 more next wear