Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-10-11
FARM AND PRESIDE


ceeded in making butter, it is only halt
made. A very important part of the opera
ton remains to be done. The idea that
butter can be worked" too much, may be
new to many. There ives time in my
trial days when it was to me; but "there
is golden mean" and it were well il we
| all could hold fast to it, Some people think
that butter, like bread, needs great deal
of kneadipg. There never was more mis-
taken notion, for the life of butter, SO to
| speak, may be beaten out, and instead of the
firm, compact, sweetly-havored article so
much desired. it will become fat, oily
oleaginous mass, only fit for lubricating
anything but the palate.
The question often arises whether water
should be used in separating the milk from
| the butter. Some have answered in the neg
alive, others in the affirmative. I unhesi-
tatingly take the affirmative, and think
there is no way of securing the desired end
so effeetually as by using cold water-not
ice cold-but common spring or we'll water.
| If the butter is hard it requires less ''work-
ing" but the milk must be all worked out
or removed, and that with as little manipu-
lation as possible. No more working ever
should be used than is absolutely necessary.
Some butter. makers use an ounce of salt to
pound, but the more fastidious prefer
less quantity. If right in every other res
pect, one half ounce is sufficient to preserve
pound of butter from rancidity.
am rather suspicious of that butter
which requires preponderance of salt, in
order to preserve. | have often seen it COW
cred with coat of mail, which, if it had
been iron instead of salt, would have effec-
tually preserved it from any harm. After
the salt is thoroughly incorporated in the
butter, it shonld be set in cool place from
twelve to twenty-four hours. usually let
mine stand twenty-four. as I think it takes
that length of time to we'll dissolve the salt.
[ then make it into balls or rolls, if not re-
quired for packing. For our home market
l use half pound stamp or press, which is
very mnch liked for common table use.
VALUE OF NIGHT So1L.4Liebig relates
that in the fortress of Rastadt and in the
soldiers barracks of Baden, generally, the
privies are so constructed that the seats
open, through wide tunnels, into casks fixed
upon carts. By this means the whole of the
excrement, both fluid and solid, is collected
without the least loss. When the casks are
full they are replaced by empty ones The
farmers about Rastadt and other garrison
towns having found out by experience the
powerful fertiliza4ing effects of these excre-
ments upon their felds,n now pay for every full
cask certain sum (still rising in price every
year, which not only has long since repaid
the original outlay, besides covering the an
nual cost of maintenance, repairs, etc.. but
actually leaves handsome profit to the de-
partment. The results brought about in
these districts are highly interesting. San
dy wastes, more particularly in the vicinity
Of Bastadt and Carlsruhe, have been turned
into smiling corn-6elds Of great fertility.
SHEEP ON Low GRoUND.-It is generally
believed by farmers, writes a correspondent,
that low, wet land is very unfavorable for
sheep. have kept flock for four years
In pasture of this description-for the first
two years with unfavorahle results. Ny
sheep were unhealthy, and many of them
died. I ascribe it to the wetness of nv pas.
ture. Upon the recommendation of an old
farmer, l gave the sheep charcoal mixed
With salt The beneficial effects Of this mix
ture were soon apparent | have continued
she treatment and the animals have oontip.---
led to thrive. | suppose tbs medicinal
gIIaiirres or thS MIXTURE consist in the disin-
fectiog property Of the charcoal, and in tue
invaluable tonic and Alternative properties of
the salt, may add tor like many ofner
remedial agents, this article when given
in small doses, augments the digestive func-
tions. In larger doses it is cathartic.
BUGS AND VINEs-PREvENT1vE.- cor
respondent says: Having used the follow
ing compound for bugs on vines, I find it
very efficient in keeping them away. It is
composed of two tablespoonful of spirits of
turpentine, we'll mixed with one quart of
plaster. The turpentine and plaster must
be we'll rubbed together when mixed. Dust
the plants Or vines with this two or three
times week, and the yellow-striped bug
will do the vines no harm, and by putting
small amount around the plants and vines
on the grounds as to touch the plants, it
will keep the cut worm away from the
plant.
DIP ToAsr.-Cuta loaf of bread into thin
slices, and toast them delicate brown
Stir a tablespoonful Of -four and two of but.
ter to a paste; add teacupful of cold milk
and mix smooth. Boil the remainder of q
pint Of milk, and when boiling stir in the
cold milk, butter and flour. Stir over the
fire till thick as cream, and and add tea
spoonful of salt. Dip each slice of toast in
this milk, pile them in. a deep dish, and
pour over them the remainder of the milk.
APPLE GRIDDLE CAKEs.-Peel six large,
juicy apples, and CRATE them on bread gra-
ter, to soft pulp Beat four eggs till light
and add to the apple beating well together;
stir in pint Of rich sweet milk, and gradu.
ally sift in flour enough to make a. thin,
smooth batter. Bake on a griddle, pile on
hot plates, and on each cake put good
piece of butter, sprinkling of powdered
loaf sugar, and a little powdered cinnamon,
or nutmeg, as preferred.
Tonic WASH FOR THE HAIR.--When the
hair is falling off, the following tonic. wash
will be found very useful Take half fluid
ounce of tincture of quinine, one drachm of
bicarbonate of ammonia, and five and a half
ounces of rose water first dissolve the am.
monia in water, then add the tincture. Az
ply it gently to the roots of the halg Twice
week, or oftener, if found to BE- beneficial.
WHtsRy FOR CHICKEN CHoLEaA.-A wri.
Ter states that, after failing with red pepper,
he gave two tablespoonful of 30 per cent.
whisky to chicks badly reduced by chicken