Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-12
Making Good Butter.

York State Da1rymen'S Association
gives the following directions for max
ing gilt-edged butter:
/. To make butter, the milk from
healthy COWS only should he used.
2. Avoid excitement Of the COWS.
produced by chasing with dogs or any
other manner. Harsh treatment les
sens the quantity and Injuries the quail
ty of milk.
3. Cows should have an abundance Of
suitable food and pure water, and salt
kept where they can have access to it
every day.
4. Cows should be kept free from all
foul odors, and not be allowed to eat or
drink anything that will give faint to
the milk.
5. Milking should be done at regular
hours, with clean hands, clean udders
and clean stables, and the milk kept
away from any communicating odOrs.
6. Milk should he strained immediate
ly after being drawn, and serated to
eliminate any obiectional odors this
done, the milk will make more and bet
ter butter.
Z. Milk vessels should be thoroughly
cleansed, scalded with boiling water
and aired, to keep them perfectly
sweet.
Why Farming Don't Pay.
We hear farmers every day uttering
the old chestnut that farming don't
pay" This is true in the case of GER
tain class of farmers, but that it is true
generally would be hard to prove. Let
man whose eyes are open and wits are
bright ride through Western New
York and question farmers generally,
and he will find in most cases farming
pays fairly well, in few cases extra
well, and in other few cases not at all. AS
is well known to political economists,
fewer farmers fail in proportion to
numbers engaged, than men in any
other business. In nearly all cases of
failure, some one or more of the follow
ing conditions will be found to have
been the cause: too much fashionable
living and dressing, too much whisky
and tobacco, and too little enterprise
too much hiring OF doctors and lawyers,
and not enough intelligence in modes OF
living and in intercourse with neigh
bore; too much party in politics, and
not enough time spent at home in tax
ing care of crops and stock; too much
listening to anti-monopoly speeches
and too little commonsense in estimat-
ing the value of such speeches to the
farmers interests too little care of ma
money rapidly; too much scrub stock
and consequently low prices received
for the hay and grain ted out on the
farm; too much raising of calves from So
cent bulls, and colts from So stations !;
and lastly, in some cases, too much
dabbling in politics and itching for of
fee.
AS far as observation goes 99-1OOths of
the failures Of farmers are attributable
to one or more of these causes. A lev
el-headed, intelligent farmer at our ell
bow says that as far as his experience
has taught him, a farmer who does his
work at the proper time and In the BEST
way that he knows always comes out at
the end of the year with little at least
on the right side IF the ledger. and has
gwen himself and family good living
besides, even in the worst of seasons
A man cannot spend his time in the
village looking after politics or Office, or
barterlng poor but er at the store for
needless inery for himself or family in
order to keep up appearances with
some rich neighbor, and at the same
time get his crops planted and harvest
ed In season and IN proper condition.
If man is heard to say that 'farm-
ing don't pay" it is safe to set him
down as 'selt-made man." and as the
architect of his own fortunes" The
trouble is not with the farming, but
with the farmer. Every one is not cap
able of being foreman in any business
or occupation, out in the country every
farmer is his own business manager,
and if he has no executive ability. or
intelligent perseverance, he must fail as
a matter OF course. IT he cannot make
it pay to work for himself, be should
hire out to his more skilltul neighbor.-
Buffalo Express.
Harrow Corn
In another column is inserted a COM
municatiOn from a man who vet culti-