Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
AN ESSAY ON BUTTER MAKING.
Bill Nye Writes Learncdly on This Par
ticUlar Fine Art.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
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 vet saw
unto you that Solomon in all his glory could
not beat her ON handmade, or rather milk
| maid, butter. This subtle joke 1 have re-
paired and newly upholstered for use during the
winter.
Butter comes from the COW in LIQUID state
IL is quite trick to win her confidence so that
sl,e Mn yiela II up to total stranger once
retort OF q large speckled COW to whom l was a
comparative stranger. She wasn't one of those
FLOODED cows that look though they have
been cut GA of a sheet of paper with pair Of
SCISSORS. She was a low COW, with coarse In.
stlnctS, born in ObScurity.
Her brow was low, but she wore her tail high
anu sne was haughty-oh, SO naughty. The
young man who had hitherto acquired the milk
away to neighboring village, where he might
trip the light bombastic toe till the wee sma'
hours anent the twa'. Quotation from poet who
was poor spellerQ He wanted me to milk his
large, speckled ,plebeian COW and said would
The movement was certainly i'll advised. I'M
the moment entered her stall and made a com
monplace remark to her, knew our acouaint-
ance would not lead to a warm attachment.
somehow felt constrained and uneasy in her
society from the moment we met until loving
friends pulled me through the stable window
never undertak Ike to milk a strange cow again
until the sign is right. So far the sign has not
| might, be sent on polar expedition and
get stranded on an iceberg, with no other
alternate but to milk a cow or eat an old
friend, but l should hate to tackle the COW
unless the friend was very old friend indeed
Butter is produced bv expunging the juice
from rare and costly chemical known as
cream. Cream is the bead on the milk Milk
! Is known as dry and extra dry. A good milk
man Will always ask you whether you want
your milk wet or otherwise.
| An old we'll digger named Grady told me
ABOUT going over into southern Indiana at one
nme 10 dig we'll for man named Withum.
Wlthum 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, 1t was q
constant struggle between Withum and his
me nrst day that Grady was there they had
round ball of butter about as big as q lemon
and as hard as Pharaoh's heart. The butter
knife had 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 1t, but the butter, confident of
It's own strength, would tip over with dull
thud, and the man would heaye sigh and give it
up Then another farm hand would make wild
Dash at 1t, but burst into tears and quit Finally
Grady, who had watched this performance
several days, jabbed his fork down through the
middle OF the yellow chunk and successfully
cut It In TIVE. In the center was q small, solid
wooden top. "There, says Grady, give found
how"