Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-14

An experienced dairyman states that he
considers the critical point in the process
of churning, in order to make good butter,
is just when the butter and buttermilk
begin to separate. Two or three gallons
of cold strong brine added to the churning
at this moment, he claims, wonderfully
facilitates the process, and improves the
condition of the butter; the warmer the
cream the more brine is needed and the
more important this part of the work.
He also suggests that only brine should be
used in washing the butter.
How TO Buy HoRsE.-The Rural
NeO Yorker says: IAN intending pur-
chaser should have the horse brought out
before him, and watch the animal as he
stands at rest. If the owner is continually
starting the horse into motion, and urging
him to show off, something may be
suspected, because it is when the horse is
at perfect rest that his weak points are
divulged. If the horse be sound he will
stand square on his limbs, without moving
any of them, the feet being placed flat
upon the ground, and all his legs plump
and naturally composed If one foot be
thrown forward, and the toe pointing to
the ground, and the heel raised, or if the
foot be lifted from the ground, and the
weight taken from it, disease or tenderness
may be suspected"
SIGNIFiCANT.-The representatives from
Richford and North Troy were most active
in their assaults upon the board OF agricul-
ture in the legislature. The North Troy
Palladium in recent issue rejoiced over
the small attendance upon the agricultural
meetings held in those villages by Colonel
Mead, and the Barton Monitor of the same
week informs us that "Richford has the
western fever and quite number are
going to Kansas" 1t is good thing to
build up state, but when it is another
state that our press is laboring to build up
we can get Il little insight into what
Stephen A. Douglas meant when he spoke
of Vermont rs a good state to emigrant
from. 1t is the picayune narrowness and
meanncss of some of our politicians, edit
ors and people that drives many of our
enterprising, energetic I'D broad-minded
young men away, to give their strength
to the development of regions where
these valuable qualities are better appre-
ciated. As correspondent remarks: at
seems strange that town will knowingly
adopt course that will lessen its popula-
ton, and even take a pride in it, Watch
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KEEP THE Cows HEALTHY.-It is now
o.aaal,l Jr,l,
retainedi in the udder of the cows is absorb
ed. The flow is decreased, and the animal
gradually goes dry. Once this process
begins, it is next to impossible to bring
the COW back to her full flow. This is not
so bad, hewever, as to allow the bag to
become inhamed, and thus poison the
milk. This being the case from any cause,
the milk should never be used. The milk
may not show signs of faint to the eye,
it may even taste well, or so nearly right
as not to cause alarm; and yet it will
faint the entire mess, and in the end the
whole will become little better than poison
when made into cheese, since then the
putrefactive process still goes on. If the
COW shows any tenderness or redness
about the udder, or if it be hard or swollen,
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all right. Through this care certain dairy
men are able to get uniform prices for
their butter and cheese, and especially for
the milk sold for family use. In the end
they make the most money, for consumers
and reputable dealers are apt to be shy of
those who have from time to time sold
them such milk, or its butter and cheese.
Prairie Farmer.
PEARs.-EditorS Farnser:-lt may prove
interesting to some of your readeas for me
to relate an experiment in growing pear
trees by lady many years ago. Twenty
three years ago | became acquainted with
Il lady who owned q very nice farm upon
which stood about one dozen pear trees, to
all appearances then some twenty years in
bearing, and not one had ever blighted !;
no open spaces in the rows. | made
inquiry what treatment they had given
them to be so lucky as to have no blight.
was informed that they had many years
before planted sprigs of double tansy,
which had at the time | saw them spread
so as to be solid turf at least two feet
across, which was never allowed to be dug
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good cultivation. Being a young man ut
that time | gave the matter but little
thought, occasionally remarking the cir
cumstance to friends, but after settled
myself and commenced planting trees, my
mind went back to those pear trees and
tanSy, and l commenced planting a sprig
of tansy at the roots of every pear tree set
out, after year or two's planting. So |
now have upwards of 300 pear trees plant
ed out and Il cluster of this bitter herb
around nearly the entire lot, and have
seen no symptoms Of blight on any 50
treated. The varieties grown in this way
are of our finest American and foreign
sorts, some thirty varieties now in bearing.
N. W. c., in Ohio Farmer.
BURNING GREEN WoeD GREATLY
WAsTEFUL.-Water passing into vapor
absorbs nearly 1000 degrees of heat. A
cord of green wood produces just rs much
heat us cord of the same wood dry. In
burning the dry wood we get nearly all
the heat, but in burning the same wood
green, from one-half to three-fourths of the
heat produced goes off latent and use.
less in the evaporating sap or water
Chemistry shows this, and why, very
plainly. Therefore, get the winters wood
for fuel or kindings, and let it be season
ing us soon as possible, and put it under
cover in time to be dry when used. II
will of course, season or dry much faster
when split fine. A solid foot of green
elm weighs 60 to Is pounds, of which so tc
80 pounds is sap or water. As ordinarily
piled up, if we allow half II cord to be lost
in the spaces between the sticks, we still
have weight of about two tons to the
cord, of which nearly one ton is water OIL
sap. Such wood affords very little useful
heat; it goes off in the ton of sap. The
great saving of hauling it home to dry is
evident as we get the same amount of real
fuel for half the team work. Beech wood
loses one eighth to one-fifth its weight in
drying; oak, one-quarter to one-ffth.-
Exchange.