The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-20
THE DAIRY.

Mr.. Harris Lewis, examining once
a sample of milk drawn from an I'M
clean udder by dirty man in foul
stable, remarked that there was little
too much manure to be called pure
milk and not quite enough for good
fertilizer.
Since the 1st of May, 1881, 5,901,-
145 pounds of butter, 40, 1888, 405 pounds
of cheese and 82l, 405 pounds of cleo
margarine have been exported to Eu-
rope. Glasgow received the largest guam
tity of butter and oleomargarine and
stands second for cheese receipts, while
Liverpool heads all the other markets for
cheese, receiving three times as much
as any other port.
When American dairymen as class
bestow as much care and attention on
their COWS as the dairymen of Holland
do, they will have better results than
at present. Travellers who have
visited Holland report that the COW
is always well cared for, and often
receives better attention than the
members of the household. She has
the best of food, is regularly MIXED,
watered and sailed. blanketed in cold
weather and provided with a cool,
shady place in the heat of summer, and
for this care and attention the Holland
er finds an increased flow of milk, and
an improvement in his herds which
makes them more valuable than the av-
erage American COW.
The best rule for sailing butter is
to salt to suit the taste of the consumer.
There is no use in applying any partic-
ular amount of salt for the sake of pre-
serving it, because the very lightest
sailing is always more than sufficient
| for all the effect salt can have as pre-
sentative of butter. Generally one
ounce of salt to sixteen ounces of butter
| is used. But if the butter has any unde-
| sirable flavor or is insipid little more
salt may be used, say one ounce to twelve
or fourteen ounces of butter, so as to OBJ
scure in measure the faulty taste, the
flavor of salt being less Objectionable
than wrong or defective taste in but
ter. But if the flavor is very fine and
full it will not be desirable to hide it,
but on the contrary to give it more
prominence, hence less salt, say one
ounce to twenty of butter, will give a
pOblCl OlOCG' fOJcooU H. ID. hFtOtS.
There is no particular churn that is
more durable or better than every other
churn. The old dash churn with a
large dasher is as durable and brings
butter as soon as any, but is laborious
to operate, it is everywhere for sale.
Rotating and oscillating churns, which
act upon all their contents at every in
pulse with conclusion or thud, bring
butter equally as soon and much easier
and in quite as good condition as the
dash churn. Their comparative dura-
bility depends not so much upon the
particular pattern Of churn as upon the
workmanship which enters into their
manufacture. For best choice the pur-
chaser had better make personal in
spection of the varieties within his reach
of observation rather than depend upon
any particular pattern. To make a
good selection one should be careful to
avoid churns which operate by friction
instead of conclusion, or on only part
of the cream at each stroke, as by using
a little dasher and rotating paddles that
glide through the cream touching but a
small part of it at each rotation.-M
Y. Tribune.