Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-28
Agricultural.

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This is not Questionable for butter
making, but it is objectionable for
cheese making.
Cream from farrow cows milk will
not all come If churned with cream
from new milch COWS. The mixed
cream will make more butter than the
cream from new milch cows alone, but
not as much as if the cream is churned
separately.
i'll were receiving milk from low
swampy, grounds, or from pasture
filed with weeds, or prairies, l would
scald it. By heating to $50 degrees l
would drive away the taint, but the
scalding would also drive away the aro-
ma of the timothy, clover, or June
grass.
Cream can be raised Dy freezing,
but this is not practiced in this country.
If milk is kept at low temperature,
the cream rises slowly.
Tne effect of sudden change in milk
or cream is to iniure the keeping quail
ity of butter.
Whey, as it comes from the factory,
invariably has bad effect when fed to
COWS. II fed while fresh and sweet, it
is not Objectionable.
Raising cream by freezing does not
stroy germs in milk.
The cream which rises first makes a
better qualityof butter than that which
rises last.
The more aroma in butter, the less
time it will keep. So with cheese.
In the spring 1 would work all the
cream into cheese, to ripen it sooner
and make it better, and work it off at
spring prices. Later in the season /
would skim more.
The cream from ordinary cows can
nearly all be worked into cheese. 1t
sould not be done with milk from the
Jerseys or other cows whose cream ri
ses slowly.
To avoid greasy butter, churn with
pressure instead of friction. The dash
churn brings butter by pressure, and
makes better butter than most other
kind of churns. Butter should also be
worked by pressure instead of friction.
The ladle or worker should not be
drawn across the butter, but pressed
down upon it.
Milk while being scalded for taint
should be stirred.
Results favor shallow setting instead
of deep setting. The amount of cream
seems larger sometimes from deep set
ting, but it is owing to the fact that in
deep setting the large globules carry
with them considerable milk. The
amount of butter from deep setting will
be less than shallow setting.
On WEAVING LAMBs.-Many farmers
are in the habit of letting the lambs go
with the ewes without weaning. This
is bad policy, for it causes the ewes
to become poor, and the lambs also
run down when put upon dry hay for
the winter. This can be easily avoided
by weaning the lambs. The proper
time is in the month of September, for
then the second growth of grass is well
up and the lambs are about the right
age. The lambs intended for market
should be turned into the best pasture,
while those for wintering should be
put on short grass, and have some
cracked corn or beans. Meanwhile, the
ewes should be turned into poor feed
for a few days, and beyond the hearing
of the lambs, they will not be uneasy.
In day or two a person should go
through the flock, and, where it is ne
cessary, remove the milk with the hand.
IL it continues to accumulate, the eve
should be fed on dry hay for few days.
If proper attention is given to this all
important part of sheep-raising, the
wool-growers will always have large
sheep and warm clothes.
APPLE-TREE BoRER.-We have fol-
lowed this incect with sharp wire for
over thirty years, and if there is any
better remedy for the creature after he
has begun to throw out his chips, we
have not discovered it. With sharp
pointed knife and bit of wire few
inches long, it is not very difficult
task to dislodge the enemy, He should
be attacked as soon as he makes his ap-
pearence. Young apple-trees should
be examined at least twice year. The
sooner the bores are destroyed, the
smaller the wounds that will be made
around the collar of the tree. Gener-
ally the worm can be reached with the
point of knife. III it cannot be done,
follow him with wire. As a preventa-
tive we have found oil-cloth, or stiff,
thick paper to answer a good purpose.
Remove the earth an inch or two around
the collar, then bind on the cloth or pa
per with string. We have seen thirty
fine, young apple-trees, worth five
dollars apiece, destroyed for want of a
half hours attention in the spring.
PAsTURING MEADows.-A correspon-
dent writes do not believe in feed
ing meadows in the fall land no one
does in the spring.) With mowers we
can better afford to feed the second
crop In the barn, where the manure can
be better preserved, and where there
will be no danger of the cattle feeding
too close, pulling up the roots, or tread
ing up the ground, which they are very
apt to do, especially when it is newly
seeded. want to get my haying done
SO early that the second crop of clover
will be in blossom SO can get it cut be-
fore we have any severe frost which is
earlier than most men are ready to turn
their stock in; that gives time for
another crop to come up sufficient to
protect the roots through our freezing
winters. top-dress to some extent.
EXPOSING POTATOES TO THE SUN.-
1t is q great mistake in handling pota-
toes, to allow them to be exposed to
the sun, especially when tender. In
digging, have baskets of convenient
size at hand, and, as fast as you can
dig, put in barrels and cover up trans
fer them fresh to market, or to a room
where they may be emptied upon floor
to dry in the shade. Potatoes exposed
TO hot sun. when packed in barrels
and shipped, will speck and rot /; often
times the shipper will lose an entire
shipment, and besides, the consumer
will find such potatoes stale and fire.
quently tinged with bitter taste.
SWELLING OF LEGs.-When the legs
of a horse swell upon standing Ill the
stable it is an evidence of debility gen.
eral or local. 1t would be well to in
crease the food in quantity and quality.
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