Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-27
FARM AND IlOuSEH()LD.


81 ARMAND HOUSEHOLD.
ALP4AHETs or HEALTH.
&. The Trinity Church Association Of New FORK
city distributes gratuitonaly among the tene-
mont houses In the lower wards 81 the city !
printed card containing the following hints on
the preservation Of health. The lines are
worth preserving and certainly worth practising:
AZ soon @ you are up, shake blankets and
sheet; =
Better be without shoes than sit with wet feet;
Children, II healthy. are active. not still:
Damp beds and damp clothes will both make
you i'll; rs Ess
Eat slowly, and always chew your food well;
Freshen the air in the honse where you dwell;
Garments must never be made to be tight; s.
Homes viii be healthy, II airy aud light:
Il you wish to be well, as you do, I've no
doubt >z5,*'s>-
Just open the windows before you 20 out;
Keep your rooms always tidy and clean,
Let dust on the furniture never be seen;
Much illness is caused by the want of pure
air, = r ~. -.
Now open Your windows be ever your care;
Old rags and old rubbish should never be kept;
People should see that their floors are we'll
Quick movements in children are healthy and
right;
Remember the young cannot thrive without
light; 49,
See that the clstern is clean to the brim:
Take care that your dress is all tidy and trim;
Use your nose to find ont if there be bad
Very sad ar the fevers that come in its train;
Walk az much az you can without feeling
fatigue:
Xerxes could walk full many league:
Your health is your wealth, which your wisdom
Zeal will help good cause, and the good you
u will reap.
MISS MITHARD's LECTURE.
: Miss smithard, an English expert and author
ity upon butter-making in a recent lecture de-
livered under the auspices Of the Royal Agri-
cultural society of England, laid down the
following rules for successful butter-making:
use most rigid cleanliness in all things con-
nected with the dairy. Filthy habits somewhere
in the process form one ruling cause of failure.
All utensils have three washings-frst, we'll
Hnsing with cold water: second, well scalding
with boiling water; third. again washing with
cold water. The human hands should never
touch the butter in any of its stages unless they
are first washed in warm water, next in cold
water, and last in buttermilk. Bookkeeping
butter is largely owing to the use Of the hand in
making. Better use wooden utensils Cream
should never be more than slightly soured when
churning. Commence to churn slowly, and be
sure the churn is we'll ventilated at first. Churn
with cream at about SO degrees. Always use q
thermometer, and never depend on the finger.
To bring the cream to proper temperature do
not use hot or cold water turned into cream;
put on q tin cylinder filed with hot or cold
water as wanted, and keep stirring the cylinder
in the cream to raise or lower the temperature
as might be required. Salt with brine instead
80 -r~ III
pound fine salt with gallon of water. to be adj
ded before the butter is taken from the churn,
and just after the granular butter has been thor
Oughly washed With cold water. II the brine is
too strong reduce by another washing Of cold
water. Referring to Normandy butter, she said
that it had driven all but the very finest English
out Of their own markets, owing to its excellent
keeping properties; it came unsalted by sea and
land, and after passing through several hands In
the regular course Of trade it was sold, by the
retail dealer pure and fresh as when sent out
from its foreign markets. Until English makers
could produce butter of equal keeping properties
they would have to submit to the severe foreign
competition. Always stop churning when the
granules are the size of pin head, and be care
full not to begin washing with cold water until
every drop of buttermilk is drawn from the
churn. Wash with cold water until the water
runs clear. Never leave the butter unwashed
to do other work.
UNFORTUNATE CATTLE DRIVE.
A special from Walla Walla, Wyoming, states
that cattleman just returned from Northern
Montana states that the Neidringhaus drive of
cattle from country to British Columbia has
proved disastrous failure to the St. Louis
cattle syndicate, Of which MT. Neidringhaus is
a prominent member. For time the drive,
consisting of DO, 600 head OF cattle, prospered
finely, but as the unusually dry season in Mon
tana progressed the grass became scarcer and
streams of water fewer and farther between.
The stock began to weaken and fall by the way
side, and re days passed by food became scarcer
and the animals died by the hundreds. The
herders even suffered great privations for water,
and so desperate did the situation become, when
nearing the British line Mr.. Neidringhaus or
dered the drive abandoned and the herders to
reach the Northern Pacific Railroad as best they
could. The scene about the drive was mo at
pitiable one. The cattle were reduced to skin
and bones, and were 80 weak from fatigue and
want of nourishment they would stand still I'M
til they fell in their tracks to die. Their moan
ing and beliowings were fearful to hear. A
cold, dry, piercing wind which was sweeping
over the country did much to compile ate the sit
nation. Cattlemen are Of the opinion that the
syndicate will not have 200 head of stock next
spring out of the immense herd driven from this
country. Their loss, in that case, will reach
$780,
FEEDING TO PRODUCE BEEF.
1t has been we'll known to practical feeders,
and lately demonstrated by the statistics Of fat
stock shows that as the animal increases in age
the less the flesh per pound of food given. 1t is
lesson tn at should be known to all feeders.
In England the experiment of Sir J. B. Lawes,
carefully carried ont large number of cases,
showed that the amount Off dry food required to