The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-19

thursday OF next week. aCooioinS ~
our promise last week we present the
following for the consideration Of the
members of the Association and all others
interested.
wfFeHEs IN THE CREAM. ee
We call attention to the poem Witches
ia the cream,,' which will be found in
The TELEGRAPH to-day. 1t is a noble
poem and entitled to serious considera-
ION. 1t shows the great difficulty there
is sometimes bringing butter, and Gran.
ny Deans ability to discover the cause and
sdrive the witches from the cream, and
the facility with which butter came after
the witches had lett the cream. Granny
Deans ability and practice are believed
in, to a greater extent perhaps, than the
members of the Association are aware Of.
Within our day, we have known of the
use of red hot horseshoe to drive the
rode, when in practice of medicine, for
weeks-yes for months--past house,
containing large family, where horse
shoe was kept over the outer door to
keep the witches out of the house. As
the members Of the Association have had
but little trouble in bringing butter we
shall leave the subject without any
farther remarks.
$50 FLOATING CURDs.
Floatine Curds is more nearly allied
perhaps to the homecoming of butter than
is generally thought. AT the convention
last winter there was much discussion
on the subject Of floating curds. It was
then said by one speaker, if we remem-
Der right, that there were but about five
or six days in the year when the floating
was very bad. He always used cold water
to cool the milk. He applied it outside
the vessel containing the milk, but if he
could not succeed with it outside be
would put the water inside. This we sup
pose was on the principle of drowning
out the witches What is there peculiar
five or six days during the season that
causes the curd to float? Is it not the
same that causes milk to sour with I'M
common rapidity on five or six or more
days OF The year? Every woman who
has brought up child by hand knows
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kept but short time without souring,
and the innocent child has to take sour
knows there are certain days in the year
when the milk sours and that they have
to do without sweet milk. A little OBJ
servation shows that these days are gen
orally warm and sultry, and accompanied
with thunder and lightning. The air is
full of electricity which is playing with
great IA pidity At such times it is not
uncommon for witches to get into the
milk, cream and curd. In case of death
generally, the blood coagulates in the
cavities and large veins after death. In
case of death from lightning, we believe
the blood does net coagulate. The life
of the blood, being so Immediately anc
thoroughly destroyed, there is no power
left to coagulate the blood. When milk
is removed from the COW and left to de
pend upon its own vital force and life, il
would not be strange if it was seriously
affected by atmospheric and electrical
changes, and especially by thunder and
lightning. And we would recommend il
to the members OF the Dairymen's Asso
citation to institute sufficient series Of
observations to ascertain if the days or
which the cheese makers curds float 81
badly are not the same days on which
the milk sours so quickly, and dependent
upon a common cause.
MAKING CHEESE ON SUNDAY.
A warm discussion arose on this
question at the convention In this city q
year ago. Why should cheese makers
make cheese on Sunday when people
need rest and should keep the Sabbath
WHY should the mixers milk the cows
on Sunday when the people need rest
and should keep the Sabbath? Why
should the cows give milk on Sunday
when the people need rest and should
keep the Sabbath? And why are cows
so constituted as to give milk on Sunday
as we'll as on Monday? These questions
NOV he easier ask ed than answered