Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19
cream hurried 10 the surface When i

has cooled to the temperature of tn
air, an air-tigAt cover is let down upf
the vat, shutting the milk entirely ava,
from all atmospheric infiuences-a cir
cumstance Of considerable importance,
as the air In cheese factories is seldom
Just what would be most desirable. In
this condition it stands twelve to sixty
hours, till the cream is all up, or SO
much OF 1t as the operator wishes to re-
move, and 1t is then sweet and makes
better skim cheese than when not heat
ed. The cream raised in this manner
is most delicious. 1t is the finest flavor
ed of any / have met with in any fac
tory, being entirely free from the stale
or bitter taste which is developed in
cream rail- IN unscalded milk in the
open air, aud the butter is all that could
be desired. It is strictly gilt-edged"
and unsurpassed. This combines all the
best features Of the different systems Of,
heating cooling and exclusion from air.
without any of the disadvantages which
occur when either system is employed
alone, This process of butter making.
and the apparatus used, are without
patents SO far as [ know and [ have no
doubt will continue so. But it's use has
not yet been wide enough to determine
the question of profit 1t costs little
more than old methods, and requires
facilities for cooling which will be in the
way Of general adoption. But it has
something of value by way of pointing
to bottom facts in butter making, which
seems to me, useful in an art so empyri-
cal as dairying.-Professor ARNOLD, in
N. y Tribune
CLOVER ON THE FARM-A CORES
pendent Of the american C,.Aiautor. in
an article on Clover and Clover Seed"
and its value in the improvement of the
farm, holds the following: The best
mode Of utilizing clover becomes there
fore the central question in agricultural
Improvement. Whether it shall be
ploWed under, pastured or mown
whether 1t shall be turned under the
year after being sown, or left to perfect
its seed; whether it shall be sown alone,
Or with some small grain crop-these
are questions affecting vitality the pros
pcrity of the farming population. The
farmers of Western New York, having
long been foremost in wheat production,
easily learned to use clover as its best
auxiliary. With the progress of years
they have learned experimentally the
best modes of using clover Forty
years ago blowing under clover when
in full blossom was the standard method.
Wheat was then the staple crop and al
most the Only one that sold for money.
A few COWS to supply the family with
milk and butter, hogs enough to fill the
pork barrel and pay the taxes, and
horses to work the farm, were almost
the only stock kept on some of the
largest and most successful wheat farms.
The manure to make the wheat crop
was furnished almost exclusively by the
clover ploWed under the previous sea-
son. Since the introduction of mixed
husbandry this system has been greatly
changed. More stock is kept; more re-
lance is placed on manure; artificial
fertilizers are more largely used each
year, and there is comparatively little
summer following and blowing under
Of clover. There can be no doubt that
this system of mixed farming is more
profitable, not only in the money value
of crops sold, but vastly more so in the
increase of the fertility of the soil.
There is greater certainty also for the
farmer. He does not have all his eggs
In one basket, and bad season does
not leave him with receipts running
far behind his inevitable expenses. The
weather that is bad for one crop is IA
vorable for others, and he has always a
reasonable certainty of having some
thing to sell. Of late years shrewd
farmers have learned to carry the sys-
tenn of mixed husbandry step farther,
and add clover seed to their list of avail
able crops. Eight, or ten to fifty or
seventy-five bushels of clover seed, as
grown On many farms every year, are
valuable addition to the farm receipts
for the year. The money thus secured
is made quite as easily as any which
the farmer receives, and [ believe it is
made not only without injury but with
positive benefit to the soil, at least to
its productive capacity. The farmers
who grow clover seed are the men who
become rich, for every year their fields
become more fertile The shade which
the clover leaves, during the heats of
summer, furnish to the ground, in
creases the nitrogen which it holds,
while the clover roots perform the
equally beneficial operation Of perme-
ating the subsoil and bringing up the
unavailable fertility from beneath and
making it available.