Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-11
PALACES IN DAlRylNe.
Baek-Handed Advice Dealt Out by a Wide
Awake Farmer,


Back Handed Advice Dealt Out by a Wide
Awake Farmer.
Don't get up early in the morning;
it makes the day too long Don't be
annoyed If your wife tells you it Is
time to milk the cows, or neglect will
cause them to dry up. Let them go
dry; that is what you want. 1t don't
pay to milk in winter when butter Is
only thirty cents a pound; besides,
women do not understand business any
way. II you follow your wife's advice
you may get ahead in this world. and
that is not what you desire. Feed the
calves cold SKINNED milk; it is less
trouble than to warm ii. and II they
grow they may live to add to the num-
Der of poor dumb brutes to curse you
next winter for your inhuman treat
ment, and if they die you can attribute
1t to bad luck. Keep few hogs; have
the pigs come in May or June; keep
them in a state of semi-starvation until
they are year and half old; they
may then weigh two hundred pounds
and pay half the expense OF keeping.
Don't waste time taking extra care
of the milk. carding the COWS or brush
ing dirt off their udders; let the dirt
fall into the milk, it will strain out, or
il 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 already btained from
the stable. Don't skim the milk until
mold appears on the cream, then put
the cream in stone jar which has
been used for pickles or sauerkraut;
let it stand several days until it emits
strong odor and the milk settles to
the bottom in variegated colors, then
churn 1t. Test the temperature of the
cream with your finger; il is correct
enough and costs less than thermom-
eter. Churn until the butter is in a
solid mass, then remove it TO u wooden
bowl that has been used to chop hash
in. Wash the butter but slightly; too
much washing might remove the but
termilk and some of the stable and
onion odors; salt with barrel salt;
it is cheaper than dairy salt. and
cheapest is best always. Work
the butter until it has a beautiful salvy
appearance; then make it into balls
and wrap them in pieces of old cloth;
be sure each cloth has a buttonhole in
a corner, as the buyer will
then know it has been washed,
If it is clean. This can only
be sold at the corner grocery, where it
will bring from eight to ten cents a
pound, while your neighbours butter
brings from twenty-five thirty cents;
but he uses the modern appliances,
feeds his cows well, and goes to lots
of trouble. which costs lots of money.
If your wife wants cans and a tank
for setting the milk, don't get them.
as they will cause her less work and
improve the flavor of the butter. She
may think tho old dash-churn too
much a back-breaker, but don't mind
that; women are unreasonable Great
ures at best; your grandmother and
mother both used 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 will be foolish
enough to marry just such a farmer as
you are.
Don't be annoyed if your neighbor
gets twice as much for his butter as
you get for yours; it isn't any better
than yours; it is only matter of pref
udice 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 but
ter. As you don't believe in winter
dairying you won't need TO use butter
color. Let the cows go a mile or so to
some creek or slough 10 drink in win
ter; it makes them hardy and is fine
exercise, and what you want is a regu-
lar rustler.
Avoid the use OF all modern methods
in the dairy; such things increase the
fortunes of all who use them. Keep
right in the old rut andodon't thank
any man for Offering to help you into
better methods. Don't improve or
beautify 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 old farm is sold to pay the mort
gage, you may sit by a desolate hearth
with your gray-haired wife and say:
"Ma, this is hard luck. "A. F. Foster,
in Ohio Farmer.