Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

We have quoted considerably from Mr.
Hardin, not always because we believed
what he said, or considered what he said
very valuable, But Mr.. Hardin has one
merit-hs is never dull; his articles are
rea liable, and he announces his ideas and
conclusions with the utmost frankneSs and
in the most positive manner, with the least
possible respect to the opinions of living
men or generation for dead ones. Below
is what lie says in the last Ohio Farmer.
But we would like to see Mr. Harlin
churn 4 mess of cream in winter from the
milk of cows kept without salt, which had
been kept cold and sweet Perhaps the
conditions are different, but our cream
don't come easily set that way How he
goes for those who warm their cream.
Brace up, Bro. Cheever; keep stiff up
per lip, for there be people yet on earth
who will continue to warm cream and
make butter from it which they will mali
ciously and feloniously sell for seventy-tive
cents 4 pound, contrary to Mr.. Hardin's
statutes made and provided; and what's
the odds whom one is brother to, so he has
plenty Of company
Il think it great pity that people
should get so excited upon this coloring
question. have butter made under con
tract by many farmers wives in the coun-
try, and | absolutely refuse to take white
butter in winter. My customers demand
yellow butter. 1t is Il bitter pill to these
good women to have to put coloring
stuff in their butter, but they become
wonderfully recouciled to it after trying it
once. Life is too short to be weeping over
the poor purchaser simply because we
have taken the only and harmless wav
of accomplishing what he requires of Us.
There is no need of deceiving him about
it. If he wants to know always describe
any step in its manufacture. There is
more imagination than reality in the idea
that summer butter is necessarily better
than the winter make. The whole ques
ton turns on the skill with which it is |
made. In my own diaries and in the Ell |
y III Cl6tluGIltS lueIe Is UuL u SQdUe Differ !
ence between the winter and summer
make. 1t is very hard for a dairyInan who !
handles no other butter than his own to
decide these points, for in nine cases out oil
ten he will make better butter when the
COWS are on grass than in winter, but it is
simply because he insists upon warming
up his cream in winter until he spoils it |
If everything is clean, and the cream is
kept cold and sweet, there need be no
trouble about it. In regard to the fifth
bookkeeping up a fire in the dairy room
in winter: The necessity for keeping up
fire is one Of those blue glass delusons
that arms Darwin with his strongest argu.
ment in favor of our direct descent from
the tailess ape and final elimination in
full brothers to Baalims travelling COM
panion. Milk is fully capable of taking
care of itself in cold weather if left alone,
Set the milk in deep pals in a room where
it will not freeze, and If there is danger
of its freezing, then get refrigerator and
put it in, or use clean dry cellar. 1t is
hard to secure the cream from milk set
cold in shallow pans. At the northwest
winter dairYing is growingin favor. They
practice it almost universally, and are con.
WINGED thoroughly that it is the most prof
liable and satisfactory system Of dairying.