Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-11-01
Farm and Home.
In a Milk Cellar.

Oh. your milk cellar is damp and moudy
is it? Well. YOU make it damp by airing il
wrong. Fresh n is good thing, but you
have toe much of it. as the man said who
raced his COW around his cabbage patch one
stormy night. just as he got out Of bed, and
with only his shirt on. You open the win
dows sometimes in the day time and always
at night don't YOU? thought so; that
makes damp cellar. How's that? Why,
this way The cellar is cooler than the air.
YOU see. Than YOU let in the Dir on a warm
night. OF forc 10 shut the windows on a
hot day. and III, arm air, which is always
damp. comes in and settles like dew on the
walls. and runs down in little streams
That makes it damp, and damp makes mold.
And mold and damp will spoil any cellar for
keeping milk in. Why. I've seen the cream
in damp eel like this all covered with
spot, Of Blue mold AMI rel too; hu, i, all
went into the cream crock just the same.
Ana then i; r.I- all through the cream Just
ike the white threads in a mushroom bed.
| was in Tom Pe;ers> cellar once. 1t was
about elder time. AMI Tom was getting the
casks out. Th.y were covered with mold an
inch thick wanted some casks. but not
ina, Kind. Then Tom began to growl be-
cause some one else got TIL butter premium
H. n from him d the Cen:cryi..e rair. oh.
Ai>si:.' -o-> by nv favor" SAYS rom. land
l'." way prizes Il gwen st the fairs goes the
same way" It you believe it, Tom.
The butter that got the first prize was made
IN a.ce clean milk house. where and jus,
The" in the lark, my fee: slipped from under
ms "u, cam, Iowa bard and sat in some
Kind of ~.ppeN staff which >mg!led awfal.
aa. kept slipping about in It Until Tom
helped ne mp. That's too bad, = saws Tom ;
chats where We ha! 10. Of cabbage last
winter and l ,rgoi 70 clean out" tell
you what il Is, Tom, said |. such ho.-pen
Of cellar as you've got isn't fl to keep
milk in-dont scrape 50 hard Tom. you'll
lear the cl1iA-phew how can YOU expect
to get good bu when there is such lot
Of naStiness as ;4ere is here-rotten cabbage
and mouidy barrels. and harness, and bless
me here's some fleece>. and not washed
either. If I'm judge on butter, Tom, this
year YOU bet YOUR life you won't get any
prize on yours, although your wife can make
as good butter as any woman can, and did
before You married her. You don't give her
chance, Tom and when the women don't
get chance tc 10 their best | don't blame
them for doing st as the men do. Never
mind any more scrapng. Tom, said |; if any
folks ask me where I've been. Ill say in
Tom Peters'S cellar, and so | left. And il
YOU want to keep cellar in nice order for
milk, have no ca6bages or dirty hecces in it ;
nor any rubbish to gather mold and have
I whitewashed ice a year; and air it on
dry nights and cool dry DAYS; and keep it
shut up in the dry weather; and if it gets
the least damp, put q barrel Of fresh lime
in il; that will keep It as dry as bone all
''-io' 4oi "'' 4O>- oI lime VIII lake up
100 lbs Of water and then be dry, and when
1t Is all Stacked down to fine powder it can
be used for embarrassing or put around the
apple trees, or busted on the cabhases or
tarnips, to keep off the flies and worms.
And then you won't have any mold in it
ana no mildew and the cream, and your but
ter will keep the year round if yoa want it
to.-Te Dairy.