The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02
Butter-Making in Winter.

oil legitimate OutGrOWtnS OF nlSn clVllil
le ton. AS wealth increases there is
Ie constantly growing demand for tab
~ luxuries. There are now in every lars
;: town many persons who will pay Il
"a price demanded for fruits raised und,
is glass and for vegetables produced oil
L. of season by means of artificial hea
d Science has brought out methods {
e preserving fruits in their fresh state 9
well as vegetables of various kinds
. The persons who have discarded drie
) fruits, who have cucumbers in Marc
!. and green peas and new potatoes i
!. April, desire newly made butter a
q the year round. They are no longe
! satisfied with that which is made in Ma,
!. and June and kept till the white
months. They desire an article equa
I in all respects to June butter. but they
want it made within a week of the time
1T is to be served on their tables. The
demand for butter made in winter had
appeared since the late civil war.
Several persons who have engaged in
supplying customers with it have been
very successful. Winter butter-making,
if judiciously conducted, may be
made very profitable. 1t must be of
excellent quality, and made with tho
expectation of getting large price for
it. Persons of small or moderate
means will not be purchasers of first
class winter-made butter. They will
be obliged to content themselves with
that which is made while COWS run in
the pasture, and which is preserved in
the ordinary methods. Persons who
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strive to make an article that will be
sought by epicures and those who
have the means to purchase costly
luxuries for the table. Unless they
have the facilities and skill to mako
an article in all respects superior, they
will find it to their advantage to con-
duct their daily operations in the sum-
n,er months.
AS only persons of considerable
means will be purchasers of butter
made in winter, so only wealthy farm
ers can engage in making it. A
farmer who has only scrub cows, rail |
pens for protecting them, wild hay
for feed, and a poor cellar for storing
milk can not expect to succeed in the
business of making butter in the win
ter. Winter dairying is branch of
high farming. 1t can only be con-
means. The best cows are required,
and knowledge and skill are essential.
The COWS need better protection than
S usually afforded these animals on
most farms. They require roomy,
warm, and well-ventilated
tables. These buildings must be kept s
clean. The excrements {
# the animals must be removed as soon {
S they are voided. Ii manure is al. t
owed to accumulate it will fill the I
uilding with bad odors that will be e
bsorbed by the milk and conveyed to I
ne butter that is made from it. The ]
DOR where the COWS stand should be t
overed with absorbents. The drop c
ings should be hauled to the field S
here they will be needed as fertiliz., q
IS, every morning. Disinfcctants S
lould be freely employed. The doors t
I'd windows of the barns should be Il
fit open when the cows are taking p
,ercise in the yard. The cows should 81
, carded and brushed twice each dav. II
Terything that conduces to their p
mfort should be studied and care ei
lily attended to. They will require IL
It only good food, but variety. II
ley should have in addition to excel tt
ut hay, meal, roots, oil-cake, or lin fe
ed-meal. Silage has proved of great IN
lue as food for dairy-cows during W
2 winter. The supply of water at
ould be ample and the quality the ha
st. 1t is desirable to have facilities ex
: bringing water into the stables, so en-
1t the cows can drink during very Vi
d and stormy days without being fe
npelled to go out of doors. we
t will be readily seen that there are bu
ny drawbacks to winter dairying. sci
however, has many advantages. q
DICE butter made in the winter will
ng from 80 to 100 per cent. more
n that made in the summer. With reI
table facilities the cost of the pro- wa
'tion is not increased IN proper hay
late ratio. 1t is as easy to have the thr
IS in milk during the latter part of cas-
fall as six months later in the sea- 81
1t is easier to procure mixers wit
a large number of cows in the win The
than in the summer. Many per- haV
who live on farms have very little A
o during the winter. They will new
nar1ly be glad to take contracts to tln
< a certain number of COWS every bee
1t and morning. A person who istll
'tes his farm to the purpose of pro- OF il
ng mill for butter during the win dice
can employ hands the entire year hoo
xcellenl advantage. In the sum- the
they will be engaged in producing sur'
storing food for the COWS to eat friei
ng the colder season of the year, no
e in the winter they will be EN-. som
ed in feeding it out, in milking, shee
taking care of the milk. Expert broy
has shown that calves dropped rang
october are raised as easily and deac
as good animals as those dropped ten {
2 spring. Of course it is necessa- the
raise them "by hand'' but this drail
cd of raising calves is now gen are 1
: practiced by farmers who man supp
ure the milk of COWS during tho ally
r months of the year, Calves merl
'ed in the fall will make fine moth
n during the next summer, and said
'e of very little trouble to their week
rs. If farmer who is engaged "N
tier dairying does not desiie to is the
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