The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-02-28
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
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From third page.
is ready for your mold, which may be
q wooden or tin hoop. Now take q
cloth, dip it in the whey, place it in
your hoop, put in your curd, press it
in nicely, and put on light pressure.
As soon as your cheese is nicely set
tied in the mold, it can be taken out
in the cloth, and placed on board or
shelf, and turned every day till it has
formed a crust. 1t should then be
rubbed with butter and turned oc-
casioually till cured enough for use,
which will be from one to three
months according as one prefers new
or more cured cheese. The tempera-
ture of u cheese room should be about
60 degrees. For practical purposes,
a gallon of milk may be called 8
pounds and 100 pounds of milk will
make about 10 pounds of cheese.
With respect to the cheese factory, I
will say but little, as the arguments
for and against the separator cream
cry, apply as we'll to the cheese fac
tory, with this addition that cheese
making district is poor for calf or hog
raising. It only remains now to con-
slider that portion of our subject as
mapped out, i marketing; and the
first point I would make is, every
package, whether pat, roll, jar or tub,
should be of the neatest and most at
tractive kind The world pays far
more for the looks of things than it
does for its necessities, and the pro-
ducers of the esthetic, rake in more
shekels than the producers of the
staff of life. As long as the world
looks at things in this light, people
will give more for neat package of
butter than a slovenly one, so that if
two packages of butter of equal quail
ity should stand on counter side by
side, that which looked best would 60
first and fetch the most money. An
other question here arises, must we
ship to the middle manor can we sell
direct to the consumer? Large
quantities of butter, will necessarily,
go on the public market, but I am con-
fident that private diaries can sell
much to the consumer if the dairyman
will only take the trouble to look up
the trade. There are families in
every small town who would be glad
to get butter direct from the producer,
if they could be sure of it's uniform
good quality, and would pay reason
able price for first-class article. A
farmer is more sure of his milk if he
corrals his COWS, than he would be if
he took his bucket, went out into the
pasture.sat down on a rock and waited
for his COWS to back up to him to be
MIXED. "A word to the wise, etc." l
am satisfied also that it will pay store
keepers to look out for good market
for their best butter, and they can
afford to pay as much as they can
sell it for, for as a rule people who
make good butter on the farm, are
among the best customers the store
keeper has, and if he trades goods
and makes a profit, he ought to be
satisfied without making another one
out of the butter. 1 was acquainted
with two brothers, who run store in
a small town in central Illinois, who
adopted this plan and made money,
and although I lived but six miles
from the nearest town, l have sold
them hundreds of pounds of butter,
though | had to go twelve miles to do
it, yet there was creamery within six
miles of me that collected cream and
made good butter too. A rustling
store keeper is as likely to succeed as a
rustling farmer. I know where there
is one now, and he is getting there
too, for he does more business in that
town than all his competitors put to-
gether. To sum up then, we see that
each must beguided by circumstances,
and surroundings, and in whichever
he may choose to take part, he must
strive for the best, for only the best
can succeed. In concluding these
dairy papers allow me to say, if you
go into it in any way moderate your ex.
pectations, it may help you some, but
you will not get rich much faster by
this means than any other. In my
next paper l shall take up the hog
for I am we'll acquainted with him; in
fact I think more of him, and know
him to be more profitable than the
two legged ones now in Washington
running this government.