Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-30
BUTTER-MAKING.
Bill Nye Writes LearnedIy on This Parttcu-
lar Fine Art.

Butter is the mature fruit of the full
blown COW, writes Bill Nye to The Lou
iSctlle Couricr-JournaI 1t is the great
est effort of her life The cow tolls
not, neither does she spin, yet l say un-
to you Solomon in all his glory could
not beat her on the handmade, or rath-
er milk-maid. butter. This subtle joke
| have repaired and newly upholstered
for use during the winter.
Butter comes from the COW in a Gq-
uid state. 1t is quite a trick to win
her confidence so that she will yield it
up to 4 total stranger. l once sought
to WOO the lacteal fluid from the milk
retort of large speckled COW, to whom
was a comparative stranger. She
wasn't one of those blooded cows that
look as though they have been cut out
of sheet of paper with pair OF scis-
Sors. She was low cow, with coarse
instincts. born in obscurity.
Her brow was low. but she wore her
tail high, and she was haughty-oh. SO
naughty. The young man who had
hitherto acquired the milk from this
COW desired one evening to HE him
away. to a neighboring village, where
he might trip the light bombastic toe
TIL the wee sma' hours ayont the twa.
rQuotation from a poet who was poor
speller.l He wanted me to milk his
large, speckled, plebeian COW, and l
said l would. The movement was GER
tainly ill-advised. l undertook to do
as i had agreed, but failed. From the
moment entered her stall and made a
commonplace remark to her, l knew
our acquaintance would not lead to 3
warm attachment. Somehow l felt con-
strained and uneasy in her society from
the moment we met until loving friends
pulled me out through the stable win
dow and brought me back to conscious
ness. l shall never undertake to milk
a strange cow again until the sign is
right. So far the sign has not been
right.
might be sent on polar expedition
and get stranded on an iceberg. with
no other alternative but to milk a cow
or eat an old friend. but l should hate
to tackle the COW unless the friend was
a very old friend indeed.
Butter is produced by expunging the
juice from rare and costly chemical
known as cream. Cream is bead on
the milk. Milk is known as dry and
extra dry. A good milkman will al
ways ask you whether you want your
milk wet or otherwise.
An old well-digger named Grady told
me about going over into southern In
diana at one time to dig a well for a
man named Withum. Withum was said
to be very close. He was the most con-
tigduous man in Indiana. His wife used
to skim the milk on one side and then
turn it over and skim the bubbles off.
1t was a constant struggle between
Withum and his wife to see which
could be the meaner.
The first day that Grady was there
they had a round ball of butter about
as big as lemon and as hard as Phar-
aoh's heart. The butter-knife had q
handle that would turn every time any
one tried to get a lick at the butter,
and the little round ball would flop
over on the other side and smile. Now
and then hired man would reach over
with his own knife and make slash at
it, but the butter, confident of its own
strength, would tip over with dull
thud, and the man would heave sigh
and give it up. Then another farm hand
would make dash at it, but burst in
to tears and quit. Finally Grady, who
had watched this performance several
days. jabbed his fork dawn through the
middle of the yellow chunk and sue
cessfully cut it in two. In the center
was a small wooden top. There"
says Grady, 1--we found out what the
blamed thing is wound on, anyhow"