Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-28
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particles Of butter have formed about |
the size of wheat kernels. You can
then draw off the buttermilk and wash
it so thoroughly that it will require
very little strength to work it, if it is
necessary or desirable to work it at all.
l wash twice with cold, salt brine, then
float in weak brine of about SO de-
grees for a few moments. If not par
ticular about the temperature OF the
last washing, the butter will be too
cold to make together conveniently and
make it difficult to handle. When you
have drained it thoroughly, sift over it
a half ounce of salt to a pound OF but
ter. Let it remain a short time to dis
solve the grains of salt, then turn the
crank several times when it, will be
massed together and quite as evenly
salted as handwriting could do it. Do
not let the lever or ladle go over with
a sliding plastering motion. You may
squeeze or pound it with impunity al
most, but every time you rub 1t over,
you spoil as many grains as you touch
and so much Of it is no better than oleo-
margarine. For packing, use the best
made, best looking ash tubs you can
find. Scald out with hot water, soak
with strong brine twenty-four hours,
turn that out and fill to the brim with
scalding hot brine, let cool and your
tub is fit for use. Pack as solidly as
possible, cover tightly and set in cool
place until ready for shipping.
Most of the older butter makers think
that you take all the flavor out of but
ter when you wash it, little dreaming
it is not the taste of butter at all they
are so fonfof but simply butter milk,
others scald and even boil their butter
milk until all the delicate flavoring oils
are dissipated, and nothing but tall
lowish grease is left. You will hardly
find two farmer people who will think
The same sample is frst-class. But
when you send it to a great city you
nay be confident it will be graded about
right. There is too great a demand for
strictly first-class butter for commits
sion man to let it go for less than best
prices. He will want more too badly,
but of course he can not get more than
1t is really worth, you may be sure or
that, and you may be sure also that IL
you feed rightly, keep the barn free
from smells by busting the floor daily
full to keep everything about the milk
and cream perfectly sweet and clean,
that you churn it as soon as it is per-
fectly sour and is of proper tempera-
ture, that you stop churning as soon
as the butter forms in small particles,
that you wash thoroughly in strong
brine, salt and work lightly and pack
it in slightly, properly prepared pack
ages, and keep milk, cream and butter
away from the air as much as possible.
you can not fail to have butter Of q
high priced flavor that will command
creamery prices and may be termed
Dairy butter in quality equal to
creamery. Mrs. Robertson.
Lime on Land.-Our cultivated crops
contain on an average about as much
lime as potash. While it is necessary
that it should be thoroughly mixed with
surface, as it is liable to sink into the
soil. In whatever way it is applied 1t
is we'll to remember that the carbonic
acid which has been expelled from it by
the heat is quickly regained from the
atmosphere, and it should in conse-
quence of this be as little exposed to
the air as possible before being applied
to the land. 1t should be put upon the
land as soon as practicable after slak-
ing By watching the effect of small
application the farmer will be able to
Judge whether his lands require it in
larger quantities, or whether its use on
his particular soil is at all beneficial.
since there Is scarcely anything that IA
as dependent upon repeated experiment
and so independent of all definite rules
as ferti.izing, owing to the great diver
sity of soils, the difference in their me-
chanical condition and various other
causes.-Agricultura Gazette (Tas-
mania0
"Butterine" No More.-A recent rul-
ing Of the Treasury Department will
tend practically to make the word but.
terine obsolete and otherwise to render
the sale of cleo under the guise Of but
ter more difficult. The order from the
Treasury Department is in part as fol.
lows: The use of any trade mark,
label, brand, picture, illustration or ad.
vertising or descriptive device repre-
senting cow, or dairy farm, or in any
other form indicating the oleomarga-
rine to be a product of the dairy or
calculated to induce the belief that it
is such dairy product is inadmissible.
The use of the word "butterine" is also
inadmissible since section of the act
| of August, 1886. prescribed that but
| terine" should be known and designated
as "oleomargarine." butchers Advo-
cate.
A Fine Dairy.-Among the most sue
cessful dairymen in Central New York
may be named Augustus Sage of
Holmesville, near South New Berlin.
His farm contains eighty acres and
| keeps thirty-eight head of Holstein
cattle, twelve sheep and his teams.
| Mr.. Sage says there is scarcely limit
| to the production of an acre of land
or Of the amount Of milk COW will
give when properly bred and cared
J for Mr. SAGE has raised and grown IN