Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-11
seven Points in siiik-setting.


1. To make the finest favored and
housekeeping butter, the cream
must undergo q ripening process by|
exposure TO the oxygen of the air
while it is rising. The ripening is
very tardy when the temperature Is
low.
9. After cream becomes sour, the
more ripening the more it depreciates.
The sooner II is then skinned and
churned the better, but 1t should not
be churned while too new. The best
time for skimming and churning is
Just before acidity becomes apparent.
3. Cream makes better butter to
rise in cold air than to rise in cold
water, but it will rise sooner in cold
water, and the milk will keep sweet
longer.
a. The deeper milk is set the less
airing the cream gets while rising.
5. The depth Of setting should vary
with the temperature; the lower it il
the deeper milk may be set; the higher
the shallower it should be. Milk should
never be set shallow in low tenpera
ture, nor deep in high one. Setting
| deep in cold water economies time
labor and space.
6. While milk is standing for cream
to rise, the purity of the cream ant
consequently the fine favor and keep
ing of the butter will be injured if thu
surface OF the cream is exposed freel,
to the air much warmer than tn
cream.
Z. When cream is colder than III
surrounding air, 1t takes up molstur
and impurities from the air. When tn
air is colder than the cream, it take
up moisture and whatever escape
from the cream. In the former cas-
the cream purfies the surrounding all
In the latter case, the air helps to purit
the cream. The selection of q creamt
should hinge on what is most desired
highest quality,o or greatest convenienC
and economy in time, space and labol
Professor L. Il. Arnold in New Yor
Tribune.
SMALL FRUIT CULTURE.
Small fruit culture will always
most successful on the intensive plal
Plant only a small area at time, an
give that the best culture POSSIBLE
Better raise 300 bushels on one acl
than that amount ON five or six.
For the highest success small frui
need very rich soil, full of "humu'
or vegetable matter, with abunda
moisture and no weeds. The moistu
comes from rich soil that holds
5 somewhat easily, and then is aided
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ton. New beginners should stt
N with small plat, and particularly
when short of capital.
= Blackberries and raspberries ne
never be staked if properly prunt
n AS soon as the spring canes reach
height of thirty or thirty-six inch
Il snip" their tops out, when they "
throw out laterals, become mi
stocky, and hold up their loads of fir
- without stakes. Stalking is usel
! expense and labor. Sometimes wi
can be drawn by the side of rows
tall plants to good advantage.
COAL ASHES AND SCOT.
@ Coal ashes and SCOT are becom
known as a perfect specific against
rayages of the radish worm. III
!. freely in the radish beds these n
20 terials will keep the vegetables
70 from the pests. The full effect, III
Of ever, is not realized until the sec
in year as against the worm, therei
10 the application should be made
y ahead of sowing and the space me
while utilized for any other purpos'
cARRoIIC ACID.
A writer in the Commercial Gaz
states that he cures hogs and chick
of cholera, and horses of pink-'
with carbolic acid. 1t is diluted
mixed in with the feed; two drops
- chicken, four for pig, and tel
twelve for a horse