The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-07

mix Is raised to temperature OF 100
degrees. The steam is then turned of,
and cold water Is introduced, which
brings the milk down to temperature
of 40 degrees, which requires about
four hour time, mt which point the
milk will have decreased in volume
eight and half gallons to every thous-
and pounds of milk. At the same time
the cooling process is begun air-pumps,
connected with the milk-cylinders, are
set in motion, eXhausting the air till the
gauge shows II pressure. Of thirteen
pounds, when the operation ceases,
and the milk rests in the vacuum for
the twenty-four hours. The benefit
claimed to be derived from the vacuum
is the freeing of the milk from offensive
odorous and destructive germs, and
the securing of more rapid and per-
feet separation of the cream by the re-
moval of the pressure of the atmos-
phere. At the end of twenty-four hours
the milk is drawn away from the cream
into vat for making cheese, and is
treated as in the ordinary 'acid pro-
cess" Meantime the cream is churned
sweet, and the buttermilk added to the
skinned milk for the cheese. The
cream is churned ut SO degrees, sailed
an ounce to the pound, stands twenty
four hours. and is then re-worked and
packed. The butter is colored, the but
ter maker remarking that ''thc cream
being raised in the dark made coloring
necessary" BY this method they Sc
cure from the same 100 pounds of milk
four-and-onc-half pounds of butter, and
nine-and-one-half pounds OF cheese.
Some analyses of Professor Sabin, of
the University of Vermont and Agricul-
tural college show a remarkable separ-
alton of cream, only one and half per
cent. of fat remaining in the skim-milk.
Not long ago, ut Il sale in Kansas
City, scrub ponies from Texas sold for
about $33 per head. At the same time
q fair horse OF mare was readily worth
$3.50 or more. Even the simplest tyro
can guess at the reason for the differ
encc between the prices for which the
animals sold. No law is palmer than
that which compels the producer of an
inferior article to sell ut an inferior
price, and none is more just. There is
a ready demand in this country for
horses of good size, style, power and
brain, and this demand is not likely to
grow less unless a general financial
panic shall come to disturb prices of all
property AS with beeves, the cost of
raising really valuable and readily
In hi T. 20,
than that of keeping the scrub. The
amount of food required for keeping
the scrub in good condition will be fully
as great as will that of keeping the
more valuable animal the care and
stable room needed will be the same in
either case. 1t is not until the time
comes when the beasts must be sold
that the difference between the two
appears most plainly.
A colt of good size and form is about
as salablc II piece of property rs is any
other farm product. A scrawny, i'll
shaped little beast can scarcely be sold
for enough to pay the actual cost of
production. As with almost all other
property, the bad influence of falling
market is felt first and most severely
by those who have inferior articles to
sell, so he who has only scrub horses
or scrub cattle to offer will find that he
will have to seek long for buyer, when
his neighbor who has good stock is be-
sieged by those who wish to buy. AS
well-built bullocks he will not accept
thin OF ill-shaped ones. There is for
him more profit and more pleasure in
handling the better animal. The buyer
of horses will pass a dozen inferior
ponies, offered ut a low price, to pay II
good figure for u good horse, because
he knows well that he can always find
buyers for the latter.
While il may not be policy for the
farmer to pay 81, 900 for u very good
horse from which to breed, it certainly
will pay to secure the services of the
very best one he can pay for. 1t is II
question rs 10 what one can afford to
pay in breeding stock. The yearling
colt T.; IN one mare, or from one horse
may sell readily for 5000, while anoth-
er of the same age, out of an inferior
dam, or by an inferior sire, may be
almost unstable at 500, and this too,
where both colts have had precisely
the same treatment. In all this there
is nothing new. The facts have been
stated again and again, but any one
who has spent much time in travelling
through the country will admit that
good reason exists for iterating and re-
iterating the lesson.
Whenever European nations 60 to
war demand arises for American
horses for their cavalry. This demand
is at once of benefit to those who have
sound and suitable horses to offer, but
he who has not had wisdom enough to
raise such stock is benefited only very
remotely, if at all. The great cities al
ways want more large, strong draft
horses than they can get at any reason
able price. The demand for such ami
mails is good even in times which can
not be called prosperous, and when
scrubby stock is almost unstable. Does
it pay, then, to give food, shelter, and
care to the latter?