The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01

lNc cltdul FCIcileS inc CHuIN Vi h"Pplng
this too long, or what is practically the
same, by keeping it in too warm L place;
fifty degrees is about the right tempera-
ture-i if cream is kept week; if it is kept
at sixty-two degrees, three days are long
enough. White specs are produced in
butter by over-churning, OF by having
the cream too sour. Either of these
faults produces curd in the milk and the
small flakes OF this cannot be washed
out of the butter. Milk from cow in
i'll health, and that is acid when drawn,
will produce specky butter. So will
the use of salt containing particles of
lime, which unite with the butter g I'D
form insoluble lime soap. White specs
are covered up to large extent by using
good coloring, which is made Of oil as
the solvent. But this use of coloring,
being to disguise fault and to add an
undeserved virtue, is worthy of the de-
nunciation of even the Farmers club
Rural Nea0 Yorker.
Strange Tastes I'm the Butter.
The principal causes why butter is
found to be badly "off flavor" are. first,
browse and weeds in the pastures, or in
the hay, or coarse roots and other un-
suitable food in the stable; second, bad
water or too little of it; third, heating
the cows blood by running or abuse;
fourth, uncleanly milking; fifth, setting
the milk in open pans which are exposed
to the fumes of cooking or to stove smoke
or tobacco smoke, or to cold victuals
set near; sixth, to keeping the cream in
uncleansed vessels, or too long before
churnirg; seventh, the use of impure
sa-., eighth, putting down the butter in
unsuitable or ill-prepared tubs or other
packages; ninth, storing it in dirty GEL
lars, or beside kerosene, salt or smoked
meat, or fish, or any other strong odored
thing. Butter is the most susceptible Of
taint of any article of food, and when
tainted, even slightly, has lost half its
value. A person may have every other
qualification for the business that can be
thought of, yet, if lacking in scrupulous
neatness, is utterly unfit to be employed
in butter making. A farmer, whose
wife is slattern, may succeed in sheep
or hogs, but never as a dairyman. Yet
let every man remember that at least
half of our bad butter was made before
the mil left the stable.-Eutmiraer.
u.oHh 1Ituta
For o fever patient, break ice into very
small pieces and mix with the same
quantity of lemon jelly, also cut up
small. 1t is refreshing.
A correspondent writes to the Scientific
american that the worst toothache or
neuralgia coming from the teeth may be
speedily cured by the application to the
defective tooth of bit of cotton satur-
ated with ammonia.
Phares' method of treating collie con-
sists in inversion-simply in turning
the patient upside down. Collie of sew
eral days duration has been relieved by
this means in Q few minutes.
A teaspoonful of finely powdered char
coal drank in half a tumbler of water
will, says an exchange, often give relief
to the sick headache, when caused, as it
is in most cases, by superabundance of .
acid on the stomach.
It is an important household economy
just now to save the cotton and linen
rags, and old newspapers, as they are
in demand at good prices. The advance
in printing paper (fully ffty-fve per
cent? has stimulated inquiries for all
classes of paper stock. The gathering
of rags and old paper in family may
be made to realize various sums for pin
money.-Americas MachiniSt.
HousenolI Hints.
Parsley eaten Will vinegar will re-
move the unpleasant effects OF eating
onions.
Cold boiled potatoes used as soap will
clean the hands and keep the skin soft
and healthy. Those not over-boiled are
the best.
Char .oal powder is good for polishing
knives without destroying the blades.
1t is also a good tooth powder when
finely pulverized.
The earthly mold should never be
washed from potatoes, carrots or other
roots until Immediately before they are
| to be cooked.
Straw mating may be cleaned with a
large coarse cloth, dipped in salt and
water, and then wiped dry. The salt
prevents the straw from turning yellow.
Potato water in which potatoes have
been scraped, the water being allowed
to settle, and afterward strained, is good
for sponging dirt out OF silk.