Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-12-13

The white Belgian carrots yielded twice
n much as the long orange. If they are
~ good for feeding they are much more
poftable. do nCt see any reason why
lhe7 are not Just rs good as the orange,
except the color, and as carrots are not
! oured nor annatto to color the butter at
Ki.py homestead, l prefer the white
c.rrG.s.
Formers in this vicinity have discovered
IA tt one Jersey COW in the herd will color
til butter us yellow as carrots. They used
t. crate them fine and churn these gratings
with the cream when the COWS were fed
on hlv and so get a yellow tinge to the
butter. This carroty butter will nos keep
90 well Wi h tn vegetable sub lance mixed
in it. and moreover, it is Apt to b strraked
The milk from he Jersey COW makes a
uuif I'm 60 or. ana does no fleet the
k "png qualities OF the butter 1t is not
Necessary 10 have Il pure bred Jersey Cow
to his benefit. A high grade w i'll do
- gr /. AMI even haIt-bood, if strongly
marked with the Jersey characteristic
WIZ give rich yellow milk The farmers
frmcrlyc IN the spring to get Il few
carrots TO color the eatly butter, but now
patronizY the Jersey bulls and raise the
heifer calves.
Esquire Davidson says he makes twice
as much butter from the same number of
Jersey cows as he formerly did from
natives, with The same kind of feeding and
treatment. He sells the butter from five
to ten cents higher than other neighbors
who do not keep Jerseys. His COWS are
substantially thoroughbred, having been
bred Tor years to pure bred sireS. Here is
IL gain OF fifty per cent in income with n
very small outlay in cost, 1t was II wise
torehought which has led to this crafty
ing result.
How some farmers will hang on TO Old
notions! There is not much satisfaction
in trying to convince suky man. He
hates to acknowledge that there is any
better way than his, and some of them
won't. One of this class said no longer
ago than Yesterday: "If | do it then
people will say you changed me-" and SO
he would not be changed. This man will
buy carrots to color his butter as long rs
he lives.
The above, by Col. +. ID. Curtis in the
Rural, has some queer things in it. II
sounds queer now to hear people asserting
the superiority of the Jersey COW for
batter; much as it would sount 10 hear
one asserting the superiority of tho Here
f)rds or shorthorns for beef, 1t is true
that tho butter of tho Jersey is of II deeper
color than that of other COWS, but it is also
true that the food of Jerseys will make a
material difference in both color and
quality of the butter. If man feels
straw to his COWS and nothing else, lie
will get straw butter We susp3c, the
colonel is not entirely familiar with the
coloring of butter with carrots. The
"grAlings" are not chlrnel VITA the
cream, but they are pat in a cloth and the
juice squeezed out, which is pat into the
cream. A portion of the coloring mater
is taken up by the fatty portion of the
butter, while the vegetable substance
passes away with the buttermilk, ant
carrot colored we believe to be the bes
artificial colored butter in use. But as
Col Curtis said, no coloriDg is needed
with Jersey COWS, and we will add, will
good feed. Grades are better than scrubs
and The higher the grade, other things
beng equal. the better.