The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-02-14

objected TO.
Deep Setting the Thing.
1t seems as though.eveFy- one interesed in
making butter must like the deep-setting
system. In short, it is what butter makers
must come to in time, and the quicker they
find it out the better for them. 1t would be
as easy to get the farmer to leave his now
ing machine and go back to the old scythe,
as to get the housewife to leave the creamery
and go back to the shallow milk pans. And
l am persuaded the more we use our cream
cry, that it is a greater comfort to the farmer
than the moving machine, for 1t helps MIN
every day in the year.
More than year ago began to investi-
gate the creamery or deep-setting system
and was pleased at once with the theory and
working of the different kinds and, like sewing
and moving machines, every one liked his
own style very much. / wanted to get the
best. can only say that the more use 1t
the better like it. My first Impressions
were in favor of faucets for drawing off the
milk and cream from the cans, but the more
/ see and hear about them, the better am
satisfied with the plain can, and think there
is less work in using them and keeping
them clean, and without cleanliness in all
branches of the dairy it is impossible to
make No. / butter. The simpler the can and
the longer it will last and the less liable will
it be to get out of order. But how does 1t
work?
/ have been using the Lincoln creamery
since last March; used ice in the tank
through the warm season, but only running
water since October No ice would be
needed with good spring water close by, to
get all the cream between milkings, but ous
water comes nearly a mile, and it is not cool
enough through the warm weather without
ice. We have enjoyed using the creamery
very much. It gives the same good results,
let the weather be warm or cold. We have
not made any poor butter since we have had
it, and it gives our customers entire satisfac-
tion and that every week in the year. We
get five cents more per pound for butter
made in this way than we could ifmade in
the old way. We get 40 cents per pound
for our butter packed in boxes or tubs,
which is the easiest way to prepare butter
for market out of town, or for customers
near by.
But while the temperature of the weather
does not effect the creamery system in max
ing good butter, the saving of labor is
great consideration. We think it reduces
the labor one-half after the milk is ready to
be strained, over the old way of setting in
pans. Besides, no dust flies or bad effects
get into the milk. And the skim milk is
very nice to use in the family. 1t canbe
"
in the tank after skimming for use in the
family, and especially in warm weather we
are very fond of it, using it as drink in the
fields. and at meals; and never knew men
to work better on any other kind of drink,
and always pleasant and sober, which can
not always be said when cider and such
drinks are allowed in thd field.
There are many things in favor of deep
setting 1t takes but little room to use
creamery. Betterbutter can be made by it at
all seasons, and more of it, from the same
amount of milk; and the skim milk is good
and sweet for stock or pigs, and think it is
worth more for them than sour milk, In
short, it seems to be "bonanza" to the
farmer.
am now keeping an account of my milk
fed to pigs and breeding sows to ascertain, so
far as / can, its real value for that purpose.
There is great diversity of opinion in regard
to the value tf skim milk for stock, take it
the year through. Circumstance and the
kind of stock must vary the results some
what, but think if judiciously used it will
not vary much from one cent per quart.
should liEe to hear from careful experiments
made on this point, for l think the subject
worthy of careful experiments and atent-
tion.-F. A. P. Stockbridge.
The Noble Horse.
In the improved conditions of farm work
and farm life, the horse has played most
important part. Do farmers fully realize
and appreciate this fact and give due credit?
We have no doubt that most of them do,
and one of the evidences of our advanced
and advancing civilization is found in the in
creased and Increasing regard for the COM
fort of this noble animal and ally OF the
farmer. The sulky piow, the manure spread
er, the smoothing harrow, seed-planter, horse
hoe, moving machine, horse rake, harvester
and threshing machine, are all comparatively
modern Improvements in agriculture which
have lightened the work of the farmer, and
rendered the cultivation of large areas pos
sible. But what would all these inventions
be worth without the horse? Scarcely any
thing; and yet in enumerating and consider
ing these numerous labor savers, we are apt
to overlook the important relation which the
horse sustains to them all. In modern agri-
culture, the horse is an indispensable factor,
and on the great farms of the west and guild
ed by the hand of man, he performs nearly
all the labor necessary to produce and harvest
the immense crops grown there.
In view of his important services, there
fore, TO say nothing of other and numerous
reasons, the horse should receive uniformly
kind treatment at the hand of the farmer.
His condition has much improved since the
days when our Anglo-Saxon ancestors hitch
ed their plows to their horses tails and made
them forage for themselves when their days
work was done, but the utmost limit of i'm
has not yet been reached. Laws
are enacted for the benefit and protection of
dumb animals, including the horse, and
humane societies are organized to enforce
them, but after all, the horse in the hands of
many is still much abused animal. In every
community there are horses that are under
faH kad ond M cOffiaiQut1U r1rotaof.
ed from the cold. Standing as this animal
does as factor in the development of our
country next to man, it is important that we
study carefully all the means by which his
condition can be improved and his strength
The horse is no less valuable
in war than in peace, and no person can bet
ter appreciate this than one who served in
the late war. For our present undivided
and prosperous country, next to the great
and patriotic union armies, we are indebted
to the noble horse. Let us pay this debt and
others that are constantly being added, by
kind treatment; by giving warm shelter and
a suficiency of food and drink; by not draw
ing nor driving beyond a reasonable limit,
and by never using the cruel lash under the
influences of passion.-Maine Farmer.
Consideration on Hen Houses.
Doubtless many amateurs and others con-
templating the keeping of improved fowl feel
somewhat embarrassed by not being able to
build accommodations for them on the start.
Now this is all nonsense and has not the |
semblance of practical wisdom about it.
We ask the pertinent question: are the fowls |
better than you? We presume to say many
Of those contemplating, have lived in very
plain and modest looking dwellings before
now and have enjoyed good health, comfort,
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