The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-27
SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY DECEMBER 81 1885,

low temperature With water ana brine,
the buttermilk and all 1t contains may
be removed from it, and before any
faint or impurity has been given to the
butter, and the grain be saved from the
kneadlng that otherwise would be ne
cessary. In this process butter will be
taken out comparatively little affected
by defects or faint in the cream.
Cream may be advanced more or less
toward a bitter taste or decay, and the
butter, because being enclosed in and
protected by its pellicle. not yet af
tected. It's because OF this protection
that sweet butter may be made from
sour cream SOurness is an advance
ment toward decay. It's equally true
that the cream may be more 0Ezles>
bitter and the-BQtter hidden a wal. I'm If
be yet, sweet When churned, 1.-The
1sourness or bitter is in the buttermIIx
and the butter is yet pure. The butter
milk adds its sour or bitter taste tofhe
butter, according to the quantity and
time of its presence with the <butter
The obvious remedy is the quickest
and most complete separation possible.
London PrOUtsiOner. 4
How sap moves in trees is a question
'towhlch lbotanists have given sreat
amount of Thought and expeffnfenf
Mr.. a. 5. Fuller, in his new work on
Practical Forestry" gives his readers
a chapter on the subject, from which
we make the following extracts:
"All plants obtain their pourish
ment In liquid or gaseous form. BY
through the cells of the
younger roots or fibrils. The fluids
and gases thus absorbed, probably
mingling with other previously assim
Hated matter, are carried upward from,
cell TO cell through the alburnjum or
sap wood until it reaches the bnd
leaves and smaller twigs. where it /,
exposed to,the air and lighf, and con
verified into organiZable matter Inathis
condition part goes to aid ia the PRO
l0Rgatlon of the branches, enlargement,
OF the leaves and formation of buds
howers and fruit, and other portion.
are. gradually spread over TIE entire
surface OfIthe wood. extending down
ward to the extremities of the root,
We often speak OF the downward foB
of sap and even ct its circulation. bu
its movement in trees in no way CORES
ponds with the circulation of blood il
animals; neither does it follow any
well defined channels, for it VIII. wheI
obstructed, move laterally as well a
lengthTise, or with the grain OF III.
wood. p e
- Fb9 OLD idea thai the sap of tree.
.descends; into. the roots in the fall, re
naming there through the winter, i
an error with no foundation whatever
As the wood and leaves ripen in tn,
autumn, the roots almost cease to i'm
blbe crude sap, and for awhile the eli
tire structure seems to part with moist
ure, and doubtless does so through tn,
exbaiatlOns from the Tipening leave,
buds and smaller twigs; but as warn
weather again approaches, the temp
erature or the soil increases, the root
again commence to absorb crude saI
and force it upward where it meet:
soluble organized matter, changing il!
color, taste, and chemical properties
Ii this was not the case, we would no
account for the saccharlne properties o
the maple, or for the presence of vari
Gus mucilaginous and reSinOus cOnsit
utents OF the trees in early spring, be
cause We find no trace OF such sub
stance in the liquid or crude sap q
absorbed by them from, The soil" 81
The lie OF the free. Mr.. Fulle
teaches. Is talf in tile 'uarA -;tad ,.
wood. The heart being dead and servin
the tree only to strengthen it mech
icaliy, as shown in the fact that it ma
be removed entirely bydecay, and sti
the tree grows on vigorously for eel
- 80 .--F- .,. 81. 1900.