Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-01-14

market, you may be sure that the merchant
will make his profit on your good butter, and
twill suffer from being in company witbpoor
Tray. You may not get the highest price
paid for the best butter, the so.cilled gilt
edge, or fancy butter; yet the demand is
very great for good butter, alta higher price
than the highest quotations in market.
But you must have an even, uniform article,
so that when you get a customer you can
keep him, and if he sends to you for tub
for friend, he may know that there IS nc
possibility Of its being poor article.
Adjourned for dinner.
AFTERNOON
The consideration Of the buuer-masing
question was resumed. This was, ia fact
the great topic of interest during the day,
and elected questions Of eagor interest en-
the part Of the large number Of dairy men
and women in attendance. In reply 20 i'm
terrogatories,
Mr. Douglass said be had formerly used
the Durhams altogether but within few
wears had made trial Of the Ayrshires also
But he had now introduced the .Tersevs
and found great merits in thom-for butte.
maxim, nurnoscs Of ooprs,. not ror cbeeae
or beef Was not tenacious to have them
tboroucbreds but satisfied with mixture
The water around the milk.nails should
come SLIGHTLY ab,vs the milk To secure an
equal ,omnoraturo aim at n tempera.
tre Of vtv degrees and from tbot 10
sixty.eight or seventy Don't want to
expel the animal heat too rapidly. II too
much haste i. used, there is danger of the
animal favor being retained to some ex.
tent, which is fatal to the quality Of the
butter. However pure the cream. if OK.
posed to the driving air. ia, much.to.be.
dreaded white specks will appear. b. my
system YOU get a damper atmosphere. and
consequently much less Of the drying around
the edges Of the cream vessels. These
white specks are drica, uncl,trae} cream
If they appear. it is impossible for Won E.
have good article of butter. BY all
means keep away the curren,sof air. Run
ming water should be introduced by faucets
Don't get too low temrerature. even il
hot weather. use a common. smar.holod
skinner. Some use dippers. Great care
must be taken to ret all the cream. even il
YOU get a LITTLE sour milk with it. It wont
hurt the butter unless it stands too long. |
fill nv nails about twelve inches deep.
Tho croot honoGt Of so,,;r, n;ll IN door
,o;,s = ho ho.,o. - oo..-oi 40 ,o,,ro.a
nre 81 ,ho mill, and mako Il rn;forr
wh;lo tbo nrocoss ;s ooinc IN stim a.
soon as ociditv commonccs no rnle-
which is usu,llv in sbopt fortv.oiebt hours
II don't ipiure tho butter to bave tbo mill
tbicken little before skimming I bav,
q r,oo oiro,lo,ion or ain osnoo;oIIy d,r;r,
hot weotbor-bpt M drafts Paw INIT mi,
attention 70 tho tounerolnre If ,be ain
control this matter in respeot to the mill
=, and cream with water Nv nails are tbir
teen inches deem and thirtoen inches ocros.
By nv system do not believe there is an,
loss of butter even in cold weather I,
large deem nails avoid the cream dryin,
on the sides producing white specks Uav
no trouble in bringing my butter. Wan
my cream at about sixty degrees for churn
p ing Don't allow it to get cold enough t
. need warming for the churn. If it mus
f be warmed, do SO by immersiug the pail O
o cream in warm water. use very littl
4 cooring matter, and don't expect to use an
after getting all Jersey stock, and tina
q properly selected for it isn't all jersey
. that are good nor all of any other bloc
, that are poor. Am decidedly of the opiuio
that the Jersey stock improves the colo
and amount of the butter. Use carrots.
=, anything, for coloring. Don't know abou
= annatto, but do about carrots. Describe
crater, which he highly recommended
g on oblong box, with cylinder runnin
through it. In five minutes he could pre-
pare in the best possible shape enough 70
i large quantity of butter-and that with
= out blistering his hands, which with otho
= graters had been great annoyance.
f In reply to a question as to the produc
4 of his dairy, Mr.. Douglass said he ha
some difficulty in arriving at an exact re
suit lie had only been on his presen
plan about four years, and had not yet ful
!. ly succeeded in selecting and testing hi
COWS. Besides, many of them were youn
il and not fully matured. Another draw
r back the present year was the early an
K sudden dropping off of the fall feed no
if is the season yet over. And yet he coult
4 1900. apa