The record-union., 1892-10-27
FARM And ORCHARD.
Organize Butter Clubs" In Every
NeighbOrhOOd.
How to Train and Teach Colts-Prun-
ing Tops When Transplanting Trees
The Plymouth Successful
Farming Tomatoes the Year Round
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes.
1t is enough to make a farmer indig-
nant as his wife bushes at the market
quotations of butter, where good to fancy
creamery is quoted at five to ten cents a
pound more than prime dairy. But it IS
no use to fume and fuss about it, and TO
say that the papers are unfair. and that the
creamery people have worked up boom
in favor of their butter, etc. While II
is fact that there is inferior creamery as
well as poor dairy butter-that all cream
cry does not rank as ''fancy"-yet, 1t
must be acknowledged that the creamery
has merit OF uniformity, and that their
fancy" is really high grade. Hence it is
that retailers, and corner grocers and
restaurateurs like tit suits their trade,
and the uniform quality satisfies their
customers. On the other hand, Dairy
butter being made by so many incompe-
tent persons, is varient in quality, and at
times some of it is poor enough; conse-
quently it is unsatisfactory TO consumers
and dealers. Hence, while the best dairy
butter is better-more fancy" than the
best creamery-it is not uniformly of high
grade except that OF paratively few
justice in the difference of quotations.
But the result OF such quotations is hard,
and unfair to the best home butter
makers, for thereby their fancy butter is
deprecated, and, when taken to the coun-
try store or the hucksters for sale, it
commands only the same price as that
which is poorly made.
Besides taking advantage of the market
quotations, traders are afraid OF offending
one customer by telling her that her but
ter is not as good as that of her neighbOr.
and SO they give premium for inferior
butter, and bear the market against en-
terprise and the best interest of their Gus
toners. In buying anything else they
discriminate in quality, and 1t is only
just that they should do so with butter,
and especially as they can thus help on a
needed improvement. Farmers wives
themselves are in a manner responsible
for this discrimination and low prices;
too many are careless and indifferent, and
the misfortune of it is that the many poor
butter makers swamp the good ones, and
the butter product OF the farm suffers a
loss in price of five to ten cents pound,
making an aggregate OF millions Of dol
lars in year. Such waste is fearful. If
by some carelessness. farmers wives were
to drop a one or five-doilar bill into the
fire every week, they would not be long
in finding some way to prevent such
waste; yet practically that is what the
poor butter they make amounts to. There
is, therefore, every reason to correct this
evil and stop the loss, especially as it can
be easily done.
The best butter made is that which
comes out of the home churn; it has a
richness and bouquet and elegance which
belong to it alone. And because such but
ter is made by some dairy women, is evil
dence that it can be made by others.
Among the requisites in making good
H11ffpT cleanliness and ind MT
They begin with the cows, whicn must
be kept clean and fed, according to tho
season, with mill grindings, ensilage and
other milk and producing feed
and must be handled humanely and
kindly, without beating or loud cursing.
The milkman should not go from groom
ing horses to milking without washing his
hands and putting on clean overalls; nor
should milk be LETT long in the stable.
The stable, milk cellar and dairy-room
must be kept scrupulously clean with
frequent scrubbing and white-washing.
Milk pals, pans, churns and every uten-
sill used must be kept perfectly sweet A
clot of milk left TO get rancid in the
Strainer, or cream Jar, will ruin the
cream and butter. Cream should be kept
as near as possible at a uniform tempera-
ture of 5S to 80 degrees in summer and 8.
to 81 degrees in winter. This is needed
to make easy and successful churning. III
this particular creameries have advant.
ages over ordinary home dairies. They
are built for the special purpose of butter
making, and are supplied with the most
approved machinery and appliances. In
winter the temperature is kept up by
steam or fire, while at home a warm eel
lar for the milk and keeping the cream.
and doing the churning in a warm place
has to suffice These, however, do very
well with careful attention, and with the
advantages Of smaller churnings, and the
nicetie9 and judiciouS manipulation of an
intelligent dairy woman, secure that Pc
culiar superiority to the homemade but.
ter connoisseurs and epicures relish sc
much.
There is no good reason why ''gilt
edge dairy butter should not be the gen.
eral rule instead of the exception, as al
present. If home dairy maids viii de
termine to renstate dairy butter for fam
lily consumption, and will organize them
selves for this object, and will persevert
in the effort, they VIII certainly succeed
More good butter is made now in home
dairies than ever before, and if the i'm
provement IN this particular which has
been accomplished during the last
twenty five years is continued, success is
assured. The process and conditions Of
butter-making are more and better un-
derstood than ever before. Better facil-
tiles are provided, and our more intelli-
gent and careful women are ambitious foI
success, as well as profit.
We would suggest that farmers wives
and daughters organize ''butter clubs'' il
every neighborhood for the purpose o.
improving the quality and thereby Sc.
curing demand for their butter at prices
which VIII make it a profitable item
on the farm. Compare experience ano
seek Improvement Don't be afraid o.
Imparting your knowledge, or of ac-
hnowledglng your ignorance, and of in.
spring your neighbor to effort Make
your neighborhood famous for its supe-
rlor butter, ana then you will have nc
ulIhculty IN finding demand for your
product, and at good paying prices,-Cln.
clnnal Commercial Gazette.
HOW To TRAIN AND TEACH COLTS.
The practice Of letting colts run wild
until they are two or three years old has
been changed to the habit of breaking tc
halter when young. Often they arc
broken to lead before they are weaned
and are handled and petted more or less
until considered old enough to break tC