The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-12


on buttermilk, | had a small quantity
churned over and got half a pound OF good,
firm butter. Then the question came up,
could there be any more left ? 1t was
churned again, and in fifteen minutes there
was quarter Of a pound more taken from
the churn. The experiment was proceeded
with, and the result of repeated churnings,
with time of churning, will be found De-
low:
First churning OF cream, three days gath
ering. was completed in 20 minutes. ID |
Second churning buttermilk is minutes. = ID |
Third churning buttermilk, 10 minutes. = 10 |
Fourth churning, buttermilk, 10 minutes p 10
Fifth churning buttermilk, 10 minutes ..l-l6 ID
Sixth churning, buttermiikl 10 nihutes i-i0 ID
in 20 minutes produced,.....,,....''.. y 10
ro.,, rosn,, SIX ID
Please note that the cream only yielded
at the first churning one-half pound more
than the butter-milk gave up after the first
was removed. Also, please note the large
result from letting the butter-mllk STAND
over night. hope others will feel interest
enough in this matter to experiment ana
send you the plain statement OF results
then you say your say, and explain IL all 10
us.
Ars,rer.-There is no part OF this coun-
try where the science and art OF butter
making have received SO much attention as
in two or three counties west and north OF
Philadelphia. The farmers there are tluak-
ers, and they love the soil and all the INDUS
tries that connect them with 1t. Years ago,
thew discovered that each cows milk has
different law or habit with regard to
churning. For instance, the milk OF" Daisy"
whose calf is two months old, will give
butter in twelve minutes churnng. Inc
milk of s'Dora,o whose calf is four months
old, will not yield butter short OF twenty
minutes churning. Now, If you put the
milk or cream of those two cows INTO the
same churli, and go to work, you will get
butter in twelve minutes; but it Will not
be Dora's butter. Her butter is still lock-
ed up in the buttermilk, and if you keep on
churning eight minutes longer the butter
will come again and none of this IS from
Daisy. 1t generally happens that the dii-
ference is not so great as In these cases !;
but what housekeeper does not know that
sometimes her buttermilk is almost as yell
low as cream, and makes her cake and bis
cult rich without lard, if she uses it to wet
the flour? OF course there is butter IN
all such buttermilk. This matter needs
some careful experiments and if farmers
and their wives will find out the facts, tins
paper will gladly print them,
TOBACCO CURES SCAB.-Fraucis Whit
ing. Norristown, Pa.--For the comfort Of
Mr.. Shaw, Surry, N. H., inform him that
by the intrusion of a flock Of strange sheep
having scab, my flock became infected
This was in Autumn. When Winter sci
in the disease began to appear. Whenever
| observed sheep gnawing itself, tobacco
Juice was applied to the diseased spot
Thus it was kept under, in good degree
till after shearing, when all the flock was
dipped all over, except the eyes, in large
tub Of tobacco juice, and erred. Mex
Winter scab appeared again flock treateC
in like manner. and cured. A neighbol
, told me | could get rid of it /; bat, after thu
second dipping, the sheds, fences, walls
, everything against which sheep could rnt
t was thoroughly white-washed, using hes
fresh lime. | saw no more seab after that
though | kept the same sheep land thei
progeny for Years. The infection had beet
{ left on the sheds and feeding-boxes, whcr
l rains and frost and storm could not wash
away. Strong tobacco juice cured m,
sheep. and | believe will cure any, a
| mine, in some cases, had lost half tn
, fleece, and were loathsome objects. | d.
f not remember that lost one.
/, PLANTING OsAGE.--Wm. Young, Otto
county, Nebraska: Will Il. w. Brown
:, Cambridge, ILL.,, who, a short time since
. gave us his experience about the Usage u
!, ange. explain himself on point OF two
: He said the plants one foot apart are nea
= enough, too near they smother iout. Tn
! fourth spring he recommends slashing then
! for after it has grown one year it will be s
! that bird cannot 60 through it. No
: what I wish to learn is how is the hede
/, going to grow so thick and still live, viii
= if YOU plant close the plants will die out
Aasacer.-Mr. Brown will note this
E Meantime the editor would say that eigi
= inches apart makes the best hedge anybod
= ever saw. When three years old ben
over and cut half off. That will make Il
:, bottom so thick that rabbit will have
= paw to get through. BUTT is only on rit
:, land that the Usage grows rank. If yo'
:, prairie has plenty of rosn-weed, and SUI
!, Hover. and compass-plant and bluejoin
:. you can get hedge that is hedge.
"A Is IT DIsHoNoR TO HAVE A ToUG
Of HAND Pc. 7. Brush: The complaints
II laboring men that their ayecations a,
ii themselves are not held in proper respe
r by those who occupy different spheres
A. life, are only too well founded. Manu-
III labor is, umdeniably, held in comparati
n- disrespect. The chief reason of this is tn
10 workingmen do not love knowledge, tn
At allow themselves to become mere machine
Sc capable of performing the work that ia
tie to their lot in the line of their daily to
j. and of doing little or nothing else. Th
IS allow they laborer to usurp the rights
" the man. They too often give more thong
= and more attention to the icorkman than
al the man, until the former becomes the ch
e. part, and then complain because others
IL them as they see themselves. lie who d
IL regards his own rights, and ignores his o.
to manhood, needs not look for others to
CHI spect them.
ly We not unfrequently hear, among G.
It. tain class, some such remark as this, on
in subject Of educating their children: I'VE
of ya-S-s John must go to school some mo
but Biil's got larnin' enough. He can re
of and write and cipher right good, and tina ll
s /: enough for any common man." III
8: virtually acknowledging distinction VIII
m the next moment they would deny U
ch helping to lay the foundation for diff
nv ence which they curse others for perceiyi
AN This principle is sometimes carried to
at extreme and produces its effects accordl
!, a lv To nossess inst knowledge enough