The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-18
THE DAIRY.

glazing Of glass makes perfect pack
age of butter, but tho common clay
crock, with its salt wash, Or vitreous
glaze, is often a delusion in butter
keeping.
"A Georgia dairyman figures out the
cost of good butter in that State at 121
cents pound, where good pasturing
can be had on easy terms for ten
months in the year, and the butter sells
at 25 cents pound.
Prof. Arnold says that by persistent
full feeding he once brought the milk
Of two common cows to such state of
richness that 200 pounds Of their milk
made fifteen pounds eleven ounces of
butter, using twelve and three-qIarter
pounds of milk for one Of butter.
An Illinois dairyman feeds green
corn fodder when COWS begin to fail in
summer; in winter he feeds ground
corn, oats and bran in equal parts with
Hungarian. He thinks Hungarian
superior to timothy, and that potatoes,
turnips, ETC., are not suitable to pro.
duce good butter.
According to German authority
there are 1856 varieties of cheese, more
or less distinct in their character, made
in Europe, while we are quite certain
there is but one kind made in this coun-
try, though the shape is sometimes
varied. Is there not vast room for i'm
provement in this respect?
"A Western farmer says q common
mistake is turning COWS into pasture
in the early spring, before there is a
sufficient quantity of grass. In their
search for better cropping they pack
the soil and destroy much grass. After
there is supply of grass care must be
taken to allow only limited range
ut first.
The practice is becoming quite
popular with dairymen after the butter
milk is drawn from the churn and the
granular butter well washed out, to
put the full amount Of salt in, and then
with moderate working leave the butter
without the usual second working. We
would suspect this to leave certain
amount of marbled appearance to the
butter, which is always highly OBJ
jectionable.- The Daiyyman.
Don't turn the COWS out during the
night too early in the season. The in
stinct of well bred COW is a pretty
safe guide, and SO we allow her TO 90
into the stable nights as she wishes to
do so. 1t is singular but suggestive
fact that great many cows know
vastly more than their owners, and
would prove much more profitable il
they could have an even chance
Prairie Farmer. ,.f ........
When cow learns the trick OF
sucking herself she is rarely cured.
The habitmay be prevented by putting
4 girdle about the COW and halter on
her head and fitting wooden rod from
q ring in the girdlc TO another in the
halter, making it pass between the fore
legs. She cannot then get her head
around TO her side. But generally it is
best TO fatten such a troublesome COW
for the butcher Germantown IeIe-
graph.
GIVE calves q comfortable yard or
pen whether raised by hand or the cow.
Confined in close quarters, the floor
beneath should be cleaned often and
Uttered abundantly. 1t is as cruel as
Improbable TO keep them tied in cold,
filthy places. Two calves may Otter
Sc proftably raised on one COW.
Always scald, or cook meal for young
calves before mingling it with any kind
% milk or feed, as raw meal is very
liable to produce scours. Wheat flower
boiled in milk checks scours.
Fifteen and ten-cent butter is thus
referred to by n correspondent: '1f an
architect and builder should say 20 4
man who wanted o fine building put
up that he never used line, level.
plumb, square or rule, he wouldn't
! get the Job even of the most Ignorant.
8ut IL is no more absurd 70 attempt TO
frame fine building without the use Of
proper tools than TO attempt TO make
uniformly fine butter or cheese without
the use of the thermometer. But that
i5tho way the most of ten-cent and
shilling butter is made The mass Of
lhe butter sold goes fer half price year
in and year out, and at all seasons ol
The year, largely caused BY being
chtIined at the wrong tctnperdtnrc by
? persons too stinayor oUstnpid TO. in.
}ess thirty cents for n good thermom-
.rler AYariation Olive degrees from
tho standard spoils, or greatly ipjures,
either butter or cheese, while il is COM
mon to not guess within ten OF fflecn
.legrecy when feeling the tempeiatlre
| with the hand. The uncousciOus con-