National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-11-08
Farm, Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Household. r
ONIONS. Nep Eagiand Homestea
d. Is authority for the statement that
packed dry in tight barrels, and all in
terstices filed with chat, onions may b.
kept in barn, or where they will freez'
quite hard, and not beinjured, provided
the barrels are closed tight and MOI
opened until the onions are again thawed
STEAM PLows.--At South Orange, N.
j., recently, there was q trial of road
engines OF English manufacture. They
were ten horsepower nominal soNdly
and very neatly constructed, aud were
handled with facility. They were
turned in circle OF 80 feet diameter out.
side OF the wheel-tracks, and ono OF
them hitched to train OF ten loaded
wagons, weighing altogether 27s tons,
went of in a very lively n amer up a
hill with grade Of one foot in thirty.
CARLEss Communicative find this
paragraph in The Boston Cultiuator A
man WAS awarded a premium Mt the late
cattle show and fair in Northampton for
a two-year-colt, when the ami NAL he
entered was horse eight years old
The owner had colt in pasture. and
sent man to bring him to the show /;
the man made mistake and took the
eight-year-old horse, which was in the
samo pasture, and the committee "put
him through" This reminds us OF an
other country fair where the same COW
took the prize at one fair as an Ayrshire,
and at the same country fair the next
year as Shorthorn. Also Of prizes
awarded to a pen of heifers when one
OF the animals entered was bull and
three parcels of butter from the same
churning that took the first, second and
third premiums.
The SECRET OF Coon BUTTER.
have boon the attempts to account for
tho superior reputation of PHILADELPHIA
butter. Perhaps the most popular no.
ton was that it was due to the prevalence
in our pastures and hay fields OF the
"sweet vernal grass" which often gives
30 peculiar fragrance to meadow hay.
Bot it needed very little reason to de-
molish such theory as this This grass
is one of the poorest for hay or pasture
purposes, and scarcely exists, except on
cold clay lands, in partially shady places
near groves or low woods. we owe
much more of the sweetness of our but.
TO the abundance of springs and spring
houses in our State than to anything
peculiar which grows in our pastures.
Milk has particular affinity Tor any
odors in the atmosphere, and water has
some:, hence whatever impurities NAV
get into the atmosphere of the spring
house are drawn out by running water,
and the very best security is provided
against their being absorbed by the
cream ermantopn Telegraph.
WINTER BUTTER MAKING. - Having
read an article in the Rural Ns,o 70, ker
inquiring the best way to make winter
butter, am willing to give some of my
experience OF twenty-five years Com
mence to heat the milk when the COWS
are first given corn fodder, which man.
age in this way: Strain the milk in tin
pans, filling only half full-a little more
or less will make no difference; then, as
soon - convenient, set the pans Of milk
on the stove. where let them remain
until roughness or wrinkled appear
ance on the top Of the milk is noticed
(t the milk gets too hot the only harm
VIII be less cream), then take it in the
milk room or cellar, in cool place until
next morning, when bring it ND in n
warm room, and let il stand until the
next day, when it is generally ready to
skim. When treated in this way it will
not do to skim much under forty.eight
hours. Ny plan is to skim morning and
nights milking both at the same time in
winter. 1t does not hurt butter for the
cream to sour-rather aids in churninp.
making butter come sooner. The cream
rkettie keep in the cellar until the day
or evening before wish to churn: then.
II convenient, set near coal stove or |
one that fire is kept in all night. Tn the
morning, before churning, try with
thermometer; IL should be at the tenn.
perature OF 62o. If not convenient to set
the cream near warm stove, setting the
kettle IN hot water will answer every
purpose. Many persons object to heat
ing the milk, because the milk some
times burns to the bottom of the pans.
10 avoid this set pans with water on the
stove and place the pans with milk in
these, and the difficulty,is at once avoid.
ed. II butter needs colorlng, would |
prefer carrot, which is prepared by scrap
ing oil the outside and washing; then
CRATE into ANAL portion of the cream
and strain this into the whole. For
chufn Spaines is good one, with large
opening for putting in the cream and
taking out the butter; also can take the
dnshers out, wash and clean more easily,
I would say never wash butter; use as
little water about butter as possible.
This is my experience, having washed
butter to My satisfaction, always having
it go'strong in few days after. l have
tried many ways to avoid heating milk
in winter, but have found nothing as
satisfactory as what I have given. e.
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