The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-06-29


trums for Increasing the yield OF but
ter" which tells OF the many devices
now before the public for relieving the
credulous dairyman of his dollars and
getting him to palm off a bogus butter
for the gilt edged article. In it we are
told the character of the nostrums
sold, their effect and value, and the
conclusion is forced upon the reader
that honest butter makers will have
nothing to do with the frauds. One
of the nostrums is advertised as gilt
edge butter compound" The direc-
lions for the use of this compound are
to take pint of unskimmed milk and
as much of the compound as you can
heap on silver 10 cent piece and
thoroughly mix the compound and
milk together in the churn, with as
much salt as necessary to salt one
pound OF butter. Add to this one
pound of soft butter, and churn until
the whole mass has come to butter,
when you will have two pounds of
butter and no milk.
This would be a very simple way of
producing gilt edge butter if effective,
but it isn't. 1t is true that one pound
of soft butter and one pound of milk
when emulsified will give two pound
mass of something resembling butter,
but not butter. If used at once it
may pass an uncritical palate, but it
would not keep long enough to be-
come old.
Another nostrum largely advertised
is black pepSin, connection costing
not more than 3 cents and sold at
10 oil. 81
crude pepsin and sugar. The sale OF
such butter brings its producer under
the law for the adulteration of a food
product. The so-called butter is no
more entitled to the name than cleo
margarine.
The best method of making a good,
sweet butter in large quantities is
careful Selection of cows and careful
feeding and care in the dairy. The
proper attention to neatness and the
sterilization of the vessels used about
the dairy will secure the growth of
ferment which properly ripens the
cream and excludes other ferments,
which produce all kinds of injurious
changes in the milk. Vessels used in
the dairy should be subjected every
dav for some time to the temperature
OF boiling water, to absolutely exclude
all putrescent bodies and fermenta-
tive processes from the dairy, save
those which are necessary to the nor
NAL ripening of the cream. The farmer
who attends to these details will have
no occasion to invest his money in
fraudulent nostrums for increasing the
product of his dairy and the magni
tude of his profits. Even if in former
times there may have been some apol-
ogy for the use of nostrum and hum
bug in milk and butter production,
the advancement of knowledge on
these subjects will no longer excuse it.
Failures in transplanting trees more
frequently occur from what might be
termed loose planting than is sup
posed. In setting tree dryish and
pulverized soil should be used, and
this should be pressed among the
roots as firmly as may be done, so
that the young fibers may strike al
once into the solid soil. Even in pot.
ting plants, with soil in proper condi
lion, it cannot be made too firm, if
nothing harder than the hands is
used. If it is sometimes necessary to
use small hammer to make the soil
sufficiently firm, especially when
changing we'll rooted plant from
small to larger pot. The benefit of
pressing the soil sufficiently over the
newly sown seed is not so well known
as it should be. Under any conditions
of weather it makes all the difference
between success and failure. Firming
the soil around seeds and plants is
evidence of good culture.
Nv
Peach trees differ from all other
trees in the pruning required at liant
ting. Every branch must be cut off
close to the body, and the body must
be cut back, leaving only a stub 10 to
IS inches above the roots, which should
have all broken or bruised pieces cut
off. When thus trimmed, plant in
good, mellow soil, about two inches
deeper than it had been when growing
in nursery rows. When growth be-
gins, sprouts will come out all along
up the body. All of these should be
rubbed off, except three or four near
the top that must be allowed to grow
to form the main branches of the future
tree. By proper selections of what
sprouts to reserve the tree may be
formed of any desired STYLE of head.
These new branches will grow froru
three to five feet the first season and
make much stronger formed tree
than could have been possible had not
the top been all cut away when