St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-13
AN ESSAY ON BUTTER MAKING.
Bill Nye Writes Ledrnedfy on This Partic-
ui09 Fine H1t.

Bill Nye Writes Lc0rnedfU O,t This Partic-
ui0T Fine Hrt.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Butter is the mature fruit of a full blown
COW. 1t is the greatest effort of her life. The
COW tolls not, neither does she spin, yet
say unto you that Solomon in all his glory
could not beat her on handmade, or rather
milk-maid butter This subtle joke have
repaired and newly upholstered for use dur
ing the winter.
Butter comes from the COW in liquid state.
1t is quite trick to win her confidence so
that she will yield it up to a total stranger.
/ once sought to WOO the tactical 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 of sheet Of
paper with a pair of scissors. She was low
COW, with coasse instincts, born in OBJ
security.
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 bornbastic toe
till the wee sma' hours anent the twa'.
Quotation from a poet who was poor spell
err He wanted me TO milk his large,
speckled plebeian cow, and said | would
The movement was certainly ll-adyised.
undertook to do as had agreed, but failed.
From the moment / entered her stall and
made a commonplace remark to her, knew
our acquaintance would not lead to warm
r c,If gr.o.
and uneasy in her society from the moment
we met until loving friends pulled me through
the stable window and brought me back TO
consciousness. ! 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
alternate but to milk COW or eat an old
friend but 1 should hate to tackle the COW
unless the friend was a very old friend in
deed.
Butter is produced by expunging the
Juice from rare and costly chemical known
az cream. Cream is the bead on the milk.
Milk Is known as dry and extra dry. A good
milkman will ask you whether you want your
milk wet or otherwise.
An old well digger named Grady told me
about going over into Southern Indiana at
one time to dig a well for a man named
Withum. Withum was said To be very close.
He was the most contiguous man IN Indiana.
His wife used to skim the milk on one side
and then turn 1t over and skim the bubbles
off. It was constant struggle between
Withun and his wife TO see who would be
the Deaner.
The first day that Grady was there they
had round ball of butter about as big as a
lemon and 90 hard az Pharaoh's heart. The
butter-knife had handle that would turn
every time any one tried to get lick at the
butter, and the little round ball would flop
over on the other side and smiIe. Now aud
then hired man would reach over With his
own knife and make slash at It, but the but
ter confident Of its own strength, would tip
over With dull thud, and the man would
heaye sign and give It up. Then another
farm hand would make wild dash at IT, but
burst into tears and quit. Finally, Grady,
who had watched this performance several
DAYS, jabbed his fork down through ire mid
die Of the yellow chunk and successfully cut
/; In two. In the center was small, solid
wooden top. There" says Grady, 'I'ye
found out what the blamed thing is wound
on aDyhoT."