Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-03-13
STATE AND COUNTY RIGHTS FOR SALE BY
j. L. SPRAGUE.
This Churn can be seen for short time at the
Courthouse, Stanton, Va.
ALECTURE ON BUTTER.MAkING.

very lew people uQQ6TSJanQI the real DOllOSO
ply of Butter Making. and many good Butter
Makers do not understand its theory They
know that after pounding nr agitaring for Ger.
tain length of time, butter accumulates in the
cream. And to take care OF it after IL comes IL
their sole thought. and there are many who fall
short of the proper standard.
Now. there is no butter in cream o. milk
You may take microscope and examine eth
er milk or cream, and you will find it composed
of little globules, bubbles lire, SO minute that
the naked eye cannot discover them encased
in this globule is the oily material, which
when brought into contact with the oxygen in
the ar. stiffens and produces butter. Now this
one is solely mechanical and the other is pure
ly chemical; the mechanical consists in agita.
ting the cream sufficiently to break the sac OF
globule; the chemical in uniting oxygen from
cess6s are essential. You cannot make good
butter If you exclude the air. nor ca you maxi
good butter without fresh air; You may make
grease. You may take bottle, and fill 1t one.
quarter full of cream, cork 1t up and shake 1t q
few minutes, and you will produce a passable
quality of butter. Take the same bottle and
from the Fourth Of July until Christmas, and
you will not produce butter-there is not
chemical ohaflge. Just SO with the churn. il
you fill 1t three duarteYs or half full. and have
no air vents, you must stop churnipg and ad-
NIT az, or yon cannot produce good butter
The most of old fashioned churns have an air
hole and by slow process of churning admit
sufficient air. The "Old Dash" draws fresh all
WIN every uOWuWaTQ sLrOR6 OF the Dash. 0ul
ifyou churn too rapidly you will make soft
butter, because you do not force sufficient all
through the fluid to perform the chemical
cham es as fast as you perform the mechanical
part,
II by some artificial means a current of air is
forced through the cream the Old Dash would
not make soft butter, even though you churned
at the rate OF two hundred strokes to the mi :
ute. Almost every one has observed ttfat
around the hole in the lid, butter gathers on
the dash iong before it does in the BODY of the
U-fhat WhpFl m of ~ ic
Churns have been invented to churn by air
alone-they but partially succeeding owing to
the force required to break the sac. Churns
have been invented to break the sac by grind.
ing. or running between two rollers, but that
destroys the grain of the butter and produces
grease; the globules must be brok en- by con-
cussion, not by friction to leave the butter per
feet A woman will produce the same result as
rollers If she works the butter too long Too
many women spoil the butter by working the
grain all out of It,. The less butter is work ed
after the Outtermilk is out sufficiently to keep
it. the better. You cannot work all the butter
milk out OF butter Ifyou could, butter would
keep ofitself without salt.
1t has been left to the present day to produce
a churn that ombin es, in a sim pie manner the
two essential 9ualilies requisite to produce
bines the air process with the agitating process,
both in one revOlntiOn; a churn at last that
overcomes all objections and sweeps as a vapor
all prejudice of the paSt-pOSsessing Qualities
almost incredible Wituoht ngle objection
able fault, it carries conviction to every obsery-
er and examiner of its surprising merits A
statement as to what the chu to which we al
Jude will accomplish, surpasses the common be-
lief of people unacQuainted with it. For in.
stance, suppose 1t to be introduced into a neigh
horhood of farmers with the following recon-
mendations:-
'"Itwiil make butter from cream any day of the
year in from Two to ZEN minutesSts average
time being five minutes. II will make better
butter (butter that stands more working, than
cOm.aon chufn, the grain being coarsep 1t
will make the hardest kind of butter in the
nf 10 N he fkn hr,t<
milk out of the butter j one minute. 1teleans
itself in one minute.
Now, we do not claim that we can take the
poorest cream and make the incest butter or
churn 1t as quick as good material; there are
many things that TELL in making good butter
In The arst place, there as great difference
lin eows-some are natural butter cows others
are not. Then II makes great difference where
a COW is pastqred, and what is fed to her A
nice hillside pasrure. facing the sun. is better
than a low, wet, shady pasture and, when
housed, few carrots and meal, or what Is call
ed "ship stuff increases the color and QUAINT.
ty Of butter materially, while an acre OF pota-
Toes and turnips would not make.one pound.
And agair there Is a time 10 skim cream
which is just as the little white specks begin to
come on it-nOt let IL remain until 1t begins 10
moAld gnd grow old. thinking that more cream
will rise lift as Hgt SGT IN to deep dishes it will
rise quick enough end Wien ~ in m ed and put
IN jar or can; stirlk YET: Tins you add to IT,,
will be longer churning and have poor butter
for our pains. The temperature of cream also
makes difference about The time, quality and
quantity o. butter. Cream should should be in
fair state for eharpiGg- rot too cold in via
ter, nor too warm in SUMMER. somc op'e
have an exactness about IL! and keep Their milk
room at a certain degree OF heat, su m mer and
winner, Most dairywom of experience can
tell near enough BY feeling. By common con-
sent r he'leve e2@ Fahrerfheit is considered
good state.
Now, lnese remarks are just as applicable 10
this churn as to any churn, but NONE of them
affect the statements made In regard oits per!
portionately it stanasjnet ss far ahead Of other
rhHrRs In dye relation to What It has 10 wqrk
upon.
40 produce :. ehurn that viii ehnrn quick Is
one thing; and to Pre- Gnu Il sHat ~ ~
ohuTn QUICK make the incest OF pu.
II ALL wash 1t free from buttermilk in one min
mte, wash itself in the same length of time and
De TehesE Snd durable is another thing.
Ihere Is greaG Git,erence of opinion among
dairy men and WOMEN Ihrougho the United
states in regard to working or washing the
buttermilk out of butter. Some contend that
butter is not as good where you use water 10
wash IL out; that IL will not keep as sW4 ct
that IL should be worked out by the hands
others that 1t is better washed. Perhaps as fair
an ILLUSTRATION by way of argument was nnh-
lished IN an Eastern paper years ago: Two
farmers were in dispute on the subject which
nded in wager being made. and each good
wife made tub of nlrtter. One washed the
out. and the other work ed il on, nv
hand.
.ne tubs were put aboard whale ship which
We're opened, and both pronounced good, sweet
butter"
Out of twenty women there may be one
" hose hands are Just suited TO WORK butter and
" no understands it. They will make the best
If butter; but tax the whole twenty peIhans
The butter would average better if washed
Let those who think that wat.r iniure.
The butter, surmounJ this fact: Butter made
n Orange. Delaware, Chenango, and Courtiand
great outer dis riot of the En-
Dire State-commaDds a higher price in the
New York market than butter from any other
lection in the United States. Nine tenths OF
h e farmers fthose counties wash their butter
We do not propose to dwell upon the partic-
liar merits of the invention which has called
orth these remarks. 1t is sufficient to say il |
combines the essential principles requisite |
hat laooring to perfect or improve which, thu |
lime and ingenuity of SO many inventors have
esulted in fruil less endeavOrs.
If in these remarks any ideas have been sug-
est ed that may be OF service 10 butter max ers
,tther in the use of this churn or any other
,ur object will have been sufficiently attained.
The follow premiums have been awarded 4
0 }. l. SPRAGUE, for his Wonderful Churn: |
,eld at Jackson, Mich, In 1879. E''
Geo. R. Holden, Secretary.
First premium at the Tri-States (Ohio Indi-
ia and Michigan) Fair held at Toledo. ohio,
D 1879 Albert moore, secretary.
Eir.t uranium by the MICHIGAN State Apri. |