Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-20
AGRICULTURAL SELECTIONS.

FACTS -Within the last half dozen years
new-fangled methods of settling milk and
raising cream, new-fangled churns and patent
butter-workers have been pulled to the skies,
and people in general begin to think that but
ter made in the oldfashioned way was hardly
fit to eat. But the butter that carried OFF the
highest honors at the Massachusetts, State
Butter Show this winter was made in the
old fashioned way. The milk was set in shall
low pans, and stood from "A to Sc hours.
The cream was kept in stone jars and well
mixed every time fresh lot was added. 1t
was churned at a temperature of 60 degrees.
When the buttermilk separated from the
butter it was drawn off and the butter washed
until the water ran clear; then salted-
threefour of an ounce of salt to each pound
of butter; stood for "a hours, then washed
and packed This butter was the product of
one thoroughbred and two high grade jersey
cows. They were fed two quarts each Of corn
meal and wheat bran, and one of roots per day
to each COW, with all the early cut hay they
would eat. The butter was judged by experts
men who were experienced In handling,
tasting and grading all kinds of butter.
Considerable ''nosing" around among the
butter makers of Franklin county, county
which has the reputation of producing the
best butter in the State of Massachusetts,
reveals the fact that the majority of the best
buttermakers stick to the old-fashioRed ways.
They use shallow tin pans, the old dash
churn, and most of Them work the butter by
hand. The best butter seems to be made
from Jerseys and Jersey grades. The but
ter that was packed in bulk in maple boxes
was better than the roll and fancy prints"
Now let the advocates of the Cooley
method, " the 6 Hardin method" and dozen
other methods" and the people who think
A. ,,,o.l-o1 bx, hand IA avarloSfinolv
ruined, look to their laurels. 1t is quite
likely that our mothers and grandmothers
did know something about butter making
after ALL" E q" in the Prairie FaTmer.
TESTS AT CORNELL - Professor Roberts
recently gave an account of some tests made
at Cornell University farm in the feeding and
management of cows. The results showed
that there was an increase of q per cent. in
the product of the cows by supplying pure
air. warm stables, a warm covered yard, pure
water 10 degrees above freezing, and pre-
pared food-cut fodder mixed with meal.
The record of FIVE cows, as the result of these
experiments, was as follows: No. weighed
1,0S6 pounds, calved January 18th, and gave
S,0555 pounds times her weight, 7.4O. No.
weighed 1,019 pounds, calved December 18th,
and gave SPOIL pounds; times her weight,
COS. No. weighed LIS pounds, calved
January 30th. and gave 8, 63l pounds; times
her weight, 772. No. weighed 500 pounds,
calved March 18th, and gave 1921 pounds !;
times her weight, S0i. No. 5, % years, Hol-
stein, weighed 1,050 pounds, calved March
9Th, and gave $40 pounds. Two and a
quarter cents per pound on an average was
received for milk, and it cost quarter cent
per pound to deliver it. The receipts net
from these cows were as follows: No. l,
S161 IL; No 2, S124 03; No. 3, S172 81 !;
No. 4, S144 70; No. 5, sos 20.
HEDGE SEED.-Hedge seed should be
sown in the spring, in ground previously pre-
pared by deep fall blowing, followed by har-
rowing in the spring. The seed should be
soaked seven or eight days before planting.
When it begins to burst open, and the germ
appears, it is ready to plant. This Is for
rows IN nursery, and it is preferable to plant
in this way than in the place where the
hedge is to stand. Mark off rows two feet
wide and drop by hand the seed from two to
three inches apart Cultivate during the
season to keep down weeds and the ground
loose and friable Take them up in the fall.
heel them in deeply and mulch with straw
two feet Deep Set out in the spring, pre-
pairing the ground by throwing two burrows
apart and then blowing down deeply in the
center. Then set the plants ten or twelve
inches apart; cultivate well, keeping the
plants clear of weeds; stop cultiyating at
midsummer. This course is followed three
years. The fourth year the plant is cut off
just above the ground.