Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-12-19

drives the foreign odors out and enablos
them to keep the milk twelve to twen.
! tyfour hours longer than it would with
out heating. As soon as the heating i
done, cold water is run around the mill
and through 1t by a series of horizonta
tubes in the middle of the milk tba
top tube being just below the cream. 10
be out of the way OF skimming. Tim.
by cooling the milk at the outside and
i'll the middle, it is rapidly done and the
cream hurried to the surface. When #
has cooled to the temperature of tho
air, an alright cover is let down upor
the vat, shutting the milk entirely awav
from all atmospheric influences-a cir.
cumstance of considerable importance
as the air in cheese factories is sedan
just what would be most desirable. n
this condition it stands twelve to sixty
hours, till the cream is all up, or So
much Of it as the operator wishes to 70.
move, and it 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 raised on unscalded milk in the
open air, and the butter is all that could
be desired. 1t 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 its 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
pondent Of the Americun Cudirotor, in
an article on Glover and Glover 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 it 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 foremostin 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 till 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 Il 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
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 nifty OF
seventy-iive 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 when
the farmer receives, and believe 1t Is
made not only without injury but with
positive benefit to the soil, at least 10
its productive capacity. fhe farmers
who grow clover seed are the men VINO
become rich, for every year their fieius
become more fertile. The shade when
the clover leaves, during the heats OF
summer, furnish to the ground, m
creases the nitrogen which it holds
while the clover roots perform the