Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-29

cred for q few minutes, after WHICH! all
the water remaining should be worked
out, vet so rs not to break the butter
plobules: after this it is spread out to
the thickness of an inch or inch and a
half and evenly saltcd with nearly an
ounce of salt to the pound of butter.
When it can be had, Liverpool brown
salt, which is very fine and pure. | con-
slider best: otherwise, the best brands
of dairy-salt obtained by evaporation,
and very finely ground, can be used.
Salt obtained by the boiling process
contains too much lime and is unfit for
sailing butter.
1 have hitherto said not a word OF
coloring butter. l believe that where
roots are fed and linseed meal. it is not
necessary. 1t is a depraved taste Or
public opinion which demands it, and
it is more or less deletcrious to the
keeping quality of butter Anotta, a
red coloring matter is generally used;
but the color is moi natural, as can be
easily proven by placing such butter
alongside of that which has not been
artiicially colored. I am of opinion that
the juice of sweet carrots would pro-
duce the same result.
The fifth and next point is perfect
| cleanliness of the mixers and. also OF
| the utensils; this will be conceded with
| out argument. Allow me to emphasize
this point. "There must not be any
odors, decaying vegetables, or garbage,
or faint Of manure, anywhere near
where the milk is set, and no even in
| the yards or sheds where the milk is
drawn.
The mixers hands should be clean,
and if possible, soft; the finger nails be
pared short, and, if farm laborers must
do the milking, the hands should be
washed in warn water and made plia-
BILE by friction previous to milking.
The same person should milk the same
cows as nearly always as possible.
There should be no noise or converse
ton while the milking is being done,
and this should be done as rapidly as
possible, and to the last spoonful. The
utmost gentleness should be exercised
toward the COWS even under the sever
est provocation. A good and protita-
BILE COW is easily spoiled aud made
worthless for the dairy by a careless
and passionate mixer. A good COW is
in one sense a machine originally per-
feet, which will run like a clock or
watch, and is as easily spoiled as eth
err. She is also q machine i'll another
sense; she will convert the feed and
drink given her into milk and its pro-
duct (by the aid of man Of course.)
The dairyman must learn by observa-
ton or rather. he should Auow how
much feed ali Individual COW will con
sumo and assimilate, or use and digest,
and yet keep her health and appe-
tite good, so as to relish all the feed
given, and thus produce the most of
milk and butter. Overfeed a milk COW
once and it will take her q week or two
to regain her appetite, and during all
this time she will shrink IN flesh and IN
her milk, and this of curse ends in
loss of cash.
And now lastly as to expert butter
makers allow me to say that they are
none too plentiful. There are points in
the process which can only be ascer-
tanned by experience; though the art
can be so easily described in words,
that any one a. all familiar with the
implements and technical terms of
dairying could soon understand. Expe-
%rience, however, is the best school,
master, and bought wit is good, if not
bought too dear. AlloW me nly hearers
Just to hint that you cannot afford 10
purchase in that market!
MARKET.
The large cities of Missouri, Kansas,
good markets for all. A No. gilt
edged butter this section "a produce.
In summing up this essay and the
proposition submitted for your consid-
Grafton, l wish to be understood as re-
iterating the axiom that if you a
produce certain conditions, which l
have endeavored to point out, success
full creameries can be established in
this latitude; though outside of and
south of the so called Hdairy belt" BY
inference l have pointed out certain
other conditions, which, unless these
are met, your enterprise will most like
ly result in failure. In other words:
Produce the live stock, the best feed,
the right sort of lei and women OPP
eratiyes, the temperature and utensils,
and the business mar to conduct the
enterprise and make sales at the most
opportune time and place, and success
is assured. Without any of these, fail
ure is certain.
I learn from most reliable sources
that last year the butter of: some OF the
Iowa creameries was bought at 90 or
% cents per pound and held for higher
prices until late autumn or winter.
The buyer lost thousands of dollars
and the last of his purchase sold in
N. Y. for eleven cents per pound. This
shows that sagacity and business tact
are great points in a manager. Just
now and for weeks past the best
creamery butter has been selling by
the tub at 40 cents and over.
l stated in the outset the enormous
increase i'll cash value of the dairy pro-
ducts of the United States. IL is great
er than the value Of all the cotton and
wool combined; greater even than the
value of all the wheat OF the land.
Hence, men have tried to initiate but
ter, and are manufacturing oleomarga-
rine, butterine, and lardine, and other
connections of fat, oil and grease, thus
undermining the sale of the IL
inc article. Therefore, in closing, l
take pleasure 10 say for our much ma
ligned state of Missouri, her legislature
aud her courts, that we have a law
sustained by 3 decision OF our highest
l COutC VCCiui IILS lI1C l1dullltClliIc anu
sale Of these abomlnablc and d%eIcteri-
GUS substitutes 4 fraud.
] give you a brie1 synopsis OF this
law as ! find it in print and | will add
the further fact, that ever the supreme
court of the United States has BY its
chief justice and district court declared
it a good law and will sustain it should
an appeal carry it before that tribu-
nal:
Whoever manufactures IL Of any
OleaginOuS substances, or any
compound of the same other than that
produced from unadulterated milk or
cream from the same, any article de-
signed to take the place of butter or
cheese produced from pure unadultera-
ted milk or cream OF the same, or shall
sell or offer for sale the same rs an ar
ticle of food, shall, on conviction there
of, be confined in the county jail not
exceeding IL year, or fined not cy-
ceeding 81 200, Oh both.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OREGON.
From the Portland Oregonian.l