The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-22
DUvveA MAKING.


ssii Nye Write. Le.rnealy On Thas Par
ascw1ar Fine Art.
Butter is the mature fruit of the 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 bea,
her on handmade, or rather milk-maid,
butter. This subtle joke l have re.
paired and newly upholstered for use
during the winter.
Butter comes from the COW in a
liquid state. 1t is quite a trick to win
her confidence SO that she will yield il
up to total stranger. once sought
to WOO the lacteal fluid from the milk
retort Of large speckled COW to whom
! was a stranger. She wasn't one
Of those blooded cows that look as
though they have been cut out of a
sheet OF paper with pair of scissors.
She was low COW with coarse in
stincts, 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 neighboring village, where
he might trip the light bombastic toe
till the wee snia' hours avont the twa
Quotations from poet who was a
poor spellcr. He wanted me to milk
his large. speckled, plebeian COW, and
said | would. The movement was
certainly ill-advised. l undertook to
do as ] had agreed, but failed. From
the moment l entered her stall and
made a commonplace remark to her,
l knew our acquaintance would not
lead to a warm attachment. Some
how l felt constrained aid uneasy in
her society from the moment we met
until loving hands pulled me through
the stable window and brought me
back to consciousness. shall never
undertake to milk strange COW again
until the sign is right. So far the sign
has not been night.
| may be sent on polar expedition
ard get stranded on an iceberg. with
no other alternative but to milk COW
or eat an old friend, but I should hate
to tackle the COW unless the friend was
2 very old friend indeed.
Butter is produced by expunging the
juice from rare and costly chemical
known as cream. Cream is bead or
the milk. Milk is known as dry and
extra dry. A good milLman will al
ways ask whether you want your milk
wet or otherwise.
An old well digger named Grady
told me about going over into Indiana
at one time to dig a well for a man
named Withum. Withum was said to
be very close. He was the most con-
tiguous man in Indiana. His wife
used to skim the milk on one side then
turn it over and skim the bubbles of.
1t was a constant struggle between
Withum and his wife to see which |
would 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 Pha-
raOh's heart. The butter knife has
handle that would turn every time that
anyone tried to get 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 a
slash at it, but the butter. confident Of
its own strength, would tip over with a
dull thud, and the man would heave a
sigh and give it up. Then another
farm hand would make dash at it, but
burst into tears and quit. Finally
Grady, who had watched this perform.
ance several days, jabbed his fork
down through the middle Of the yell
low chunck and successfully cut it in
lwo. In the centre was a small, solid.
wooden top. There" says Grady,
'Ive found out what the blamed thing
S wound on. anyhow"