The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-12
When to Churn.

The education of the world will never
be finished. This educating the public
is the stone of Sysiphus, which we no
sooner get to the top of the hill of COM
pletion than it rolls laundering back
again, and our work is all to be done
over. New scholars are constantly
coming, and old ones forget their les
sons, at least in practice. Lime upon
line and precept upon precept," is the
demand from now until the day of judy
ment.
In view of all that has been written
and said, and of all the experience and
the churning that is daily done through
out the United States, one would think
that everybody would know how and
when to churn. But every day produces
evidence that such is not the fact; and
the tons of poor butter on the market are
strong witnesses of the ignorance, care
lessness or imbecility of many butter
makers. Here comes the experience of
a retailer, through the columns of the
Record: "A fine old farmer brought me
his butter, the other day, and was
anxious for me to engage all the butter
from his dairy-about twenty-five Jer-
sey cows. The butter was IL beautiful
color, and put up in handsome prints,
but in taste it was stale, flat and I'M
profitable. The pride and satisfaction
with which he looked'upon that butter
was touching. | took what he had and
agreed to report what my customers
said about it. Tomorrow | must break
the news as gently as can to him, that
many of my customers sent the butter
back. One pound was as much as they
could USE" Note the delicacy of the
situation. Who says dealers are with
out sympathies? Here is case of real
mental suffering. The palate could not
be cheated through the eye. The GUS
toners returned the butter, notwith-
standing it was Jersey and beautiful to
behold. He was ga fine old farmer"
too. No doubt he had fine wife. Both
took pride in that butter. But that
pride must take q fall! Oh, the humilia-
ton!
What was the matter? Let the SYM
pathizing and afflicted dealer tell:
1.-The sole trouble with him is that he
will churn but once week, when he
should churn six times" Think of
cloves labor lost, in penurious effort
to save labor! But note what this
sensitive dealer further says of the
" fine old farmer: "He uses that
worst of all milk-houses, spring-house
at the foot of hill, where the air is al
ways heavy, damp and funky." 1t
does not seem to occur to all butter
makers that the milk-room should be
well ventilated, and the atmosphere
pure and sweet. But such is the fact,
nevertheless, no matter where the room
may be situated.
Now note the touching finale. You
that have tears to shed, prepare to shed
them now: Il would rather break the
sad news to him of the death of some
dear friend than to refuse to take his
butter tomorrow, for | am sure he will
never speak to me againr' Friendship
broken, ties sundered and butter
spoiled, by "a fine old farmer" who
will be considerably out of pocket as
well as disappointed and offended, all
because he did not set his milk in a
proper place and churn his cream be-
fore it got musty! Pathetic as the pict-
ure is, we doubt if it will afford sufficient
warning to prevent all who read it from
committing the same sad mistake
american Ddtryndn.