The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-25
About This and That. Here ana There.

nelghbor, Mrs. Deborah Morris, written
by her son, John Morris, who lives at
Camp Verde, Arizona. In his interesting
communication he says: Il returned home
from Salt River Valley, or Dams place, a
week ago Dams folks were all well. |
went down with -four horses to my big
wagon. | took down a load of potatoes
and brought home a load Of grain, dried
peaches, grapes and honey for winter use.
| q aloEe and was gone three weeks.
| was on the road five days each way.
The distance to Dams farm is one hundred
and twenty-five miles. | packed water
and grub for myself and horses, and at
night slept on the desert. The country is
dry and thinly settled, and in one stretch
OF fifty miles there are no houses, no feed,
no water, no timber-just a level, dry
desert. Not even a bird or jack rabbit is
to be seen, but lots of prairie wolves, which
were my only companions. At night they
would come close to my camp and yell.
but they are harmless, and the light OF my
fires kept them off. The crops down on
Salt River are bountiful, and prices low.
Barley ard wheat are worth seventy-fve
cents per hundred pounds. Hay five and
six dollars a ton, and slow sale. Grapes,
peaches, figs and aprieots are the chief
products. Young cattle are selling at
StFcllg-uFc tOIldIS Il utdu. lutfe, Inc
crops are raised by irrigation. l took a
load of sweet potatoes to Prescott and sold
them for B! cents per pound, by the sack
of 100 pounds, there being no baskets here.
Gu school commenced on the first of Oc-
tober and we pay our teacher S75 a month.
Fig Is as tall as | am, and as stout as a
mule. johnny is a big, black-eyed boy,
lat as a pig; can play on the organ good,
and can shoot ducks and rabbits by the
dozen. lie can jump OF a horse with his
rope and down a wild calf. The boys are
a big help to me on the farm"
| have heard some farmers say that sell
ing milk to the creameries does not pay.
Perhaps not, but certain it is, it does not
pay the creamery men to take some OF the
milk taken to the factory under the present
system. In the west the dairymen are
paid according to the quality of the milk
they produce. Here no regard is made to
the quality, but, good OF poor, every man
receives the same price per hundred pounds
for the milk he sells. Farmer 4 carts two
hundred pounds to the factory every morn.
ing and Il only one hundred, but there is
double the amount OF cream in BIS milk,
and therefore much more profitable to the
creamery man, yet BIS milk bill is only
half as large as AS, because he delivered
but half the quantity. Paying for milk
according to its butter value is believed to
be the most practical plan for dairyuen
and creamery owners. Test churns are
used when the butter value Of milk is as
certained. The test churn is so construct
ed that fifty or more samples of milk can
be tested at one chnrning. From the mess
of milk after being emptied and weighed a
small quantity is taken and poured into a
/ -. -
as many samples as desired have been
taken, the case or rack in which they are
deposited is Set in a warm place where tie
milk becomes very sour, after which the
entire lot, by a simple mechanical arrange
ment, is churned in a few minutes. Then
the butter is melted and the percentage Of
butter to the hundred pounds of milk is
asceTtained by measuring the thickness of
the oil or melted butter shown in the up
right glass cylinder and consulting a
printed chart. PANTsINBooTs.