New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-09
THE FARMERS and OTHERS.
a Few Things for Night Reading at
Home.
q Lesson on tho Properties Of Butter, and
Il How to Make tt Who'll es ONE Aphorisms
to be Tackled on the Barn Door Many
Notes Of Interest
a Lesson in Butter Making,


says a writer in the American Cultiva-
tor. Il has been found that by feed
ing as well as breeding you can en-
rich the quality Of milk, make the
oily globules multiply without rela-
tive expansion OF water bulk, and that
in a lesser way the caseine solids
could be caused to likewise increase.
Then again, experiments proved
like the odor impaired to milk from
roots, ensilage, ETC., could be averted
| by feeding such food to stock directly
after milking. Grasses and milk flaw
ored heritage when turned to milk pro-
duce that aromatic and delicate butter
flavor, always sought after by the con-
su1ner. While the composition OF but
ter is sixty-eight parts palmitine and
thirty parts oleine, there romans two
parts which if affected debases the
value of the whole. This insignificant
proportion of 2-1OOths OF the bulk
consists of peculiar odoriferous and
i favoring ingredients, the principal of
which has received the name Of
l.
maker against using anything but the
very best commercial color, because if
base ingredients are used in eliminate
I ing the dye from the annatto seeds,
the hue given to the dairy product
will be OF an inferior cast.
It must be remembered that the but
ter globules or 'soil drops" are not
quite fluid, but have a pasty consist
Eency, owing to the large amount of
palmitine which they contain, in pro-
portion to the oleine. These globules
vary in size, but change shape slight
| " by heating, becoming more circu-
lar in form. We know that a rupture
of these globules means rancidity of.
the product, and rancid butter is fitted
only for axle grease. These globules
taken in common compose the
grain and the grain of butter
should not be broken till it is spread
by the table knife of the. consumer.
The writer here presents the most
salient points of the new aud intelli-
gent method of dealing with this
Oleaginous commodity:
l. Cream ripening evenly in one
batch, not several messes in different
stages of maturity mixed together prior
to churning.
2. Churning at a uniform temporal
ture. OF which an average Of CO., can
be regarded as standard
8. a firm granulation OF the butter,
which the proper temperature in the
cream will assure.
/ f. The washing of the butter with
cold water, when it is in a graduated
state Washing should be accom-
plished by a gentle revolution of: the
dash till the water runs off clear
s. Working salt into the butter with
gentleness, exercising extreme caution
not to overwork. AS soon as the salt.
which should be of the finest and
purest grade, is Incorporated in the
butter structure, you should cease to
manipulate it with the ladle.
s 3. Packing product in immaculate
cases. a correct process of manufact-
ure will come to naught if the butter
be packed loosely, OF in unclean YES
sells Few realize with what pertinac-
lty spores and bacteria will cling to
the smooth surface of tubs and Jars.
Only prolonged heat will kill the mi
croscopic spores, which, if not elimi-
mated from the sides of the frl1in, will
by their spreading into the butter
structure debase it's flavor and lower
its marketable worth
| Nail These to the Barn Door.
Who enters here leaves pipe be-
hind
The horse will be all the better for
working his way through the winter.
The man that knows the right use Of
a horse blanket is frst-class horse
| man.
Too many horses eat up during the
winter all they have earned during
the summer.
The horse blanket saves feed and
| fesh-less substance is used to make
! animal heat.
Keeping matches in any other re-
ceptacle than. an iron or tin box is
tempting Providence.
Some people think farm animal is
like q postage-stamp no good until
licked. They are sadly mistaken.
The farm horse, having only light
/ labor, and not much Of that, during
the winter. should have less grain and
more roughness than during the sum
mer.
The men that puts iron bits in
horses mouths in very cold weather,
without first warming the bits, has al
together too much of the savage in his
composition.
Fertilize rs. h
IS It IS equally certain that money in
vested in fertilizers or fertilizing
materials is frequently thrown away
| through ignorance Of the wants of the
| soil to which the fertilizer is to be
| applied. a soil in which any Of the
plant-forming elements is abundant
and in an available form requires no
such element in a ferti ..izer. It's only
| those elements viii oh are deficient IN
the soil that must be supplied, and
| until farmers have learned some easy
and practical method of determ ming
the character Of their soils the profit
from fertilizers. home mixed or other
wise, will prove an uncertain quantity.