The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-09
Modern Butter.

IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE.
Editors Country Gentleman: The ad-
yances in Che processes OF butter-making
are 80 rapid that it requires no great stretch
OF The imagination 10 picture, in the net
distant future, methods and results which
90 our grandparents would have seemed the
WORK OF q magician. By careful breeding we
hare in less thaE q century increased tie
daily butter yield OF good COW from half
mound TO over two pounds, and the annual
Weld from one hundred to over three hun-
dred pounds. And at the same time, by re-
ducing the bone and muscle and hide to the
minimum, We have improved the quality y
proyiding better and more varied food and
purer air and water. The old pasture with
its coarse grasses, acrid weeds, and stag.
nant pools, has given place to carefully
selected upland pastures, from which rank
weeds are excluded, and upOD which fer
iilizers are regularly applied, or which are
wholly taken up aud reseeded with many
varieties OF fine grasses. Hay made from
grass cut after it mas hardened into wood
and afterwards left TO sour with mould, has
given way to that bright ard fragrant hay
made from grasses cut in their fist bloom,
cured rapidly and housed immt date
| ly. Musiy cornStalks tramped into the
l
unlike the modern fodder carefully cured,
and, after being cut and steamed,
mixed with sweet corn-meal. The rich car
rot AID sweet beet have taken the place Of
the strong turnp and cabbage, and green
fodder OF msny kinds-sweet corn, incerne.
miIlet, al oats and rye cut in their bloom
now supplement the pasture. And tho
rougbly-brushed and carded bodies and
scrupulously-cea tanks and uGdeIs, with
| light, warm, and understanding stables,
constantly purified by thorough ventilation,
and disinfected by sawdust and powdered
gypsum, have taken the place OF the dark
ness, dampness. and filth OF our ancestors
stables. Moreover, kind and gentle voices
and quiet motions are now recognized as
also OF the first importance in the pasture
aud the stable.
IN the milk-r0om the changes are as many
ADD great. We are learning that the Cen.
trfuga Cream Separator does the work oil
thiriy-siX hours iu less than as many min
uteS, and at the same time removes dark
and siroug.Smelling substance, much Of
which has hitherto remained in the cream
and gone forward into the butter. Chem
lists have already removed the envelope
from the butter gobule ty artificially-pre
, pared acids, getting their idea from the prac
, tice OF those French peasants who, by bury
ing cream 10 double canvas bags in frest
earth, ere able TO obtain pure, sweet, ant
dry butter after twenty-four hours burial
! The centrifugal process has also been sue
cessfuiy applied to the "workiDg" OF but
ter, the remaining buttermilk and the broker
envelopes OF the butter globules being b,
this means satisfactorily removed. Ant
already the chemists claim to have discov
cred preparations Of borax and other sub
stances 10y which butter can be perfectly
preserved for many months and safely
} transported for long distances over lane
aud sea. Finally, the selection OF grasse:
! for pastures includes not only those which
: are valuable for their nutritive qualities Of
early or late bloom, but those which, lik'
the sweet yernal, have the power Of aiyins
to The butter OF the cows fed where
: grows its powerful and agreeable flavor
: The effect of corn as compared with whea
and oats and other grains upon the texture
; as well as the flavor Of the butter, is ais
being carefully noted.
j IENOr Mass.