The Springdale news., 1889-10-18
MONEY IN DAlRYlNG.
A Look by ContrarIes at the Way ir
 Which Success Is Certain.

| ing way of impressing some with the reason they do not succeed in dairying:
 Don't use land-plaster on the stable floors, as it keeps them dry and clean and adds to the comfort and health of the cow Don't be annoyed if your wife tells you it is time to milk the COWS, as neglect will cause them to dry up Let them go dry; that is what you want. It don't pay to milk in winter when butter is only thirty cents a pound; besides, women do not under stand business anyway. II you follow your wife's advice you may get ahead in the world. and that is not what you desire. Feed the calves cold skinned milk; it is less trouble than to warm it, and if they grow they may have l to add to the number of poor dumb l brutes to curse you next winter for your inhuman treatment, and if they die you can attribute 1t to bad i luck. Don't waste time taking extra care of the milk. carding the cows. or brus hing dirt off their udders. Let the dirt fall into the milk; it will strain out; and II 1t don't it will only add flavor to the butter. which is highly essential Set the milk in pans on an open shelf in the kitchen, where the fumes from cooking cabbage. onions and bacon can add to the flavor al- ready obtained from the stable. Don skim the milk until mold appears on the cream, then put the cream in a stone jar which has been used for l pickles or sauerkraut; let il stand scv- eral days, until it emits a strong odor and the milk settles to the bottom in variegated colors, then churn it. Test the temperature Of the cream with your fingers; it is correct enough and costs less than thermometer. Ghurn until the butter is in solid mass, then l remove il 10 wooden bowl that has been used to chop hash in. Wash the butter but slightly; too much washing might remove the buttermilk and some of the stable and onion odors. Salt with barrel salt, il is cheaper than dairy salt, and the cheapest is always the best Work the butter until tha5 q beautiful saivy appearance; then make t into rolls and drop them in pieces of old cloth. Be sure each cloth has d button-hole in a# corner, as the buyer will then known it has been washed. This butter can only be sold at the corner grocery, where it will bring from eight to ten cents d pound, while your neighbours butter brings from twenty-five 10 thirty cents. But be uses the modern appli- ances, feeds his cows well, and goes to lots of trouble which costs lots of money. If your wife wants cans and d tank for setting the milk, don't get them, as they will cause her les work and improve the flavor of the butter. She may think the old dash-ehurn too much of a back-breaker. but don't mind that; women are unreasonable creatures at best your grandmother and mother used a dash -churn, and what was good enough for them Is good enough for your wife; there will be plenty of women after she is dead, and some of them may be foolish enough to marry just such man as you are. Don't be annoyed if your neighbor gets twice Us much for his butter as you get for yours; it is not because it Is any better; 1t is only a matter of prejudice on the part of the consumer, and you should let the world know that you will not cater to any body's taste for fifteen cents pound extra on butter. As you don't be- lieve in winter dairying you won't
 
 cows go a mile or so 10 some creek or slough to drink in winter; if gives them exercise and makes them hardy, and what you want is a .,reeular hustler. Avoid the use of all modern methods in the dairy, for such things increase the fortunes of all who use them. Keep right on iE the old rut and don thank any man for offering to help you into better methods. Don { improve or beauiify your home. Let the boys and girls go from home for that comfort and pleasure which you have always denied them. AS the years go by and the farm is sold to pay the mortgage, you may sit by a desolate hearth with your gray HdlFed " lie ana SdS: W ell, Hd, lllS is hard luck. "
 But there is better way for tho dairyman. It is the broad road of progress. The first step is. read the best dairy papers. You will soon be- come acquainted with the best dairy breeds and the methods of men who have been successful. You will sec that his cows have warm barns. that they are kept warm. clean and com- i fortable; that the corn is cut and care fully saved in stock or silo. and judi ciously fed, well mixed with oats. bran and oilmeal And that good pasture, pure water and good hay are regarded by such men as q necessity, that the best dairy utensils are used and that no old fogy notions are followed You