Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-22
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A mistake frequently made is in at
tempting to churn too much. Never
have the churn more than half full,
says a Michigan Farmer in National
Stockman. Cream will swell anyway,
and it is not wise to put so much in the
churn that time will be wasted in bring
ing the butter. Separation results
from conclusion, and small quantity
of cream will reach that point sooner
than a churn full.
When butter granulcs appear add 81
half pint of salt to three or four gal
Ions of cream (more will do no harm)
and continue the churning until the
butter separates from the buttermilk,
but no longer. Do not allow the butter
to mass. Draw off the buttermilk and
rinse the butter twice. Let the first
water be not too cold, the last one very
Geld. When the rinsing is complete,
the butter should still be IN granules.
Drain and salt in the churn. Place the
cover in position and revolve Qf bar
rel churn) slowly about a dozen times.
Remove the cover, cut butter apart
with the ladle, return the cover to posi-
ton and turn a few minutes very slow
IL, so the butter drops from end to end
OF the churn
Hook the churn, draw the butter, re-
move to butter bowl and press into
shape. then pack or treat as desired.
No further working will be necessary.
Cooperation In siIO Filling.
Let six to ten farmers promise to grow
so many tons of corn, build a silo and
agree to give some one man in the
neighborhood the job Of cutting 1t into
proper lengths for the silo and putting
the same into the silo In good shape at
an agreed price per ton, says Vir-
ginia farmer in Farm and Home.
In this section silage corn can be
planted from April l to Aug. 1, so that
a dozen or more can have their silos
filled by one single outfit. Few farm
ers like to attack the silo single hand
ed simply for the reason that the en-
CINE, cutter and elevator are high pric-
ed and make the silage quite eXpen-
siye, but If they can get silage put into
the silo for, say, 40 cents per ton, he
delivering the corn to the cutter, every
farmer in the land can have a silo, and,
in fact, not one of them is justified in
going without one. There are plenty of
communities in which can be found ten
farmers who would put up 100 to 300
tons of silage each if they could grow
it and get it into the silo at less than
$3.50 per ton.
Benefits of SiIaGe,
Concerning the benefits of silage over
fodder corn said J. Mcmillan at the
farmers institute, Ontario: The silo
renders the corn more easily digested
1t provides succulent food both summer
and winter. 1t enables me to keep a
greater quantity of cattle on the same
number of acres, as there is no waste
the silage being eaten up clean. An
finals are more healthy on silage than
on dry food. Experiments made at the
Wisconsin experiment station with en-
silage and fodder corn upon milk COWS
show 3 per cent in favor of silage, as
on one acre of each the silage gave 243
pounds more milk and - pounds more
butter than the fodder corn. At New
York experiment station two animals
were fed with silage corn cut and
shocked. Their weddings were kept
and analysed to see what amount of
every hundred pounds of solids the
foods contained would be kept by the
animals 1t was found that from silage
they kept 60 pounds out of every 100
pounds and from the shocks only 62
pounds.