The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-10
FARM TOPICS.

BUTTER MAKING" Grandmother
says in the Rural Nea0 Yorker: A sweet
milk-room with right temperature is
of vast importance in the manufacture
of good bntter. There is little danger
of Keeping things too nice. By this |
do not wish to imply that daily mop
ping Of the floor is either a necessity OF
benefit. On the contrary, the less you
wet the floor the sweeter the room will
remain. Once n week is often enough
to give the place a thorough wetting
Add little carbOlic acid to the water,
and wipe the floor very dry and every
sour or musty odor will be dispelIed.
Sunshine is 4 necessity in the milk
room. A little morning brightness
helps to keep the atmosphere pure and
wholesome. Flies and dust must be
excluded while fresh air is admitted
Screen cloth will serve to keep the flies
out, while cloth frames hung from the
tops of the window frames, on the out
side, will keep out the dust and will also
give perfect circulation within. | do
not like water in any form about the
milk-room. | have tried several meth
DDS of using it, such as running water,
passed through tubs in which the pans
are set; pans with water-pipes passing
through them, etc. Butter made from
cream which has risen in dry atmos-
phere is certainly of a better quality than
that made where there is a water mOiS-
ture exhaled constantly. And il is also
firmer and keeps better. l like large,
fiat pans best, for we get more cream
from them; it is much easier to skim
them than are smaller and deeper, and
they are easier to keep clean. | did
not try the Cooley system of setting the
milk in the cans and placing them in q
water tank, for years of experience had
taught me that air was a necessity to
the making of perfect butter. Those
who were at first enchanted with this
new arrangement have after a few
months trial discarded it and gone
back to the open pans. Perfect butter
requires perfect management in making,
as also perfect neatness. DishclOthS,
towels and strainers can not be kept too
sweet, and the breath of blooming flow
ers and green grass in mi.k-room is q
benefit. No odors which are not sweet
should be admitted. Mats to wipe the feet
upon are q necessity before coming in
from the cow stables or yard and some
times the bottoms of the milk-pails
need wiping too. A housewife has all
this to see to as well as to know that a
broom has been used to brush off the
cows before milking that no dust or
hairs shall fall into the milk. Good
sweet pasturage as well as fresh. run
ming water must be provided if good
butter is to be the result. Stagnant
water will impart to both milk
and butter an offensive taste,
and impair the health of the cat
tie as well. Frequent sailing is not
to be neglected as the butter comes
much quicker and is harder if this be
not omitted. Never put the hands into
butter. There is no excuse for so do
ing, and every sense of cleanliness for
bids it. True, the hands are clean, still,
as butter absorbs any and every impuri-
ty with which it comes in contact, ex-
cesSive perspiration of the hands or any
humor CT the blood might thus be inn
parted to the butter. A wooden ladle
to lift the butter from the churn, or to
turn it over while being washed, an
swers Just as well, and vast deal bet
ter. AS regards sailing, use the best
salt, and, to work in just the right guam
tity, weigh both butter and salt. As re-
CARDS quantity, there can be no rule,
taste of the customers alone being con-
suited. If the butter be well worked be-
fore sailing, less salt is required than il
sailed when partially worked. Tubs and
boxes should be well looked after before
the butter is packed in them. Scrub
them and soak in brine for few days
then wash thoroughly, and rub the in
side with little salt before packing in
the butter.
FATTENING POULTRY FOR MARKET
As the season for fattening poultry
for market will be upon US ere long, a
few suggestions in regard to doing SC
successfully, CLEANED from considerable
and extended experience, will not b'
out of place. In marketing poultry il
our large cities, there are far too man,
farmers who Keep all their shipment