Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-15

Washington Territory, for want of tubs
and jars, have adopted method of put
ting up and keeping butter which pre-.
sents some features that are worthy the
attention of those having butter packed
for family use or retail trade. The
packing is thus described by the Illus
trated Journal of Agriculture:
'sAll butter is packed in muslin sacks.
made in such form that the package,
when complete, is cylinder three or
four inches in diameter and from half
foot to foot in length. The butter
goes from the churn, as soon as worked
over, into the cylindrical bags, made of
bleached muslin. The packages are
then put into large casks, containing
strong brine with a slight admixture of
saltpeter, and, by means of weights,
kept always below the surface The
cloth integument always protects the
butter from any impurities that chance
to come in contact with the package
and being always buried in brine it is
protected from the action of the air.
and it has been ascertained by trial,
that butter put up in this way will
keep sweet longer than in any other way.
Besides, it is easier and cheaper for
tie manufacturer than to pack either In
jars or ferkins. And for the retailer
there is no telling the advantage ON tie
score of safety and convenience. These
rolls of butter can lay upon his counter
as safe from injury, from dust or other
contact, as bars Of lead; can be rolled
up for his customer in sheet of paper
with as much propriety as a bundle of
matches. If the consumer, when he
gets home, discovers specks of dust upon
the outside of the sack, he can throw it
into a pail of pure cold water and take
it out clean and white AS he uses the
butter from day to day, with sharp
knife he cuts it off from the end Of the
roll in slices of thickness suited to his
want, and peels off the cloth from the
end of the slice, leaving it in tidy form
to place upon the table.
A CASE OF SUCCESSFUL FARM MAN
AGEMENT.-'.Walks and Talks in the
March number of the Agriculturist has
this on a crop Of peas and oats: ''The
land was we'll MANFRED, and it had a
splendid crop, getting eighty loads from
the ten acres. 1t was well cured, thrash
ed at the time it was drawn in, or few
days later, and proves most excellent fod-
der | have never raised crop that
gave me so much satisfaction, and [ pro-
pose to grow it more extensively this
year" 1t doubtless was cut when yet
considerable green; and thus well cured,
there was considerable substance in it.
1t was "cut into chaff" Here large
amount of good fodder was obtained
with the grain in the bargain.
In this section peas, or peas and oats,
or peas and barley, are sometimes sown,
and similar crops realized, 30 to 80
bushels of grain per acre. The land is
then plowed and put to wheat. 1t turns
up mellow, and apparently without loss
of fertility. A good crop of wheat usu-
ally follows, and successful seeding in
the spring. This pays, especially III
these times of high market for hay, the
coarse fodder answering very good pur-
pose for feed, which should in all cases
be run through the straw cutter, as the
coarse pea straw requires this. A little
corn meal, or roots, or bran, or the grair
thrashed from the straw and ground, adj
ded, will keep stock in good condition
If hay is to be spared it may be sold
however, only when the land is good
enough to warrant it. and not ther
should this be largely indulged in. Blu
occasionally mixed crops like the above
may be raised to great advantage il
these times when hay is found a costly
affair to feed.