The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-01
GOOD DAIRY SENSE.

| NIlBOD OG4N0A1s
At the late Ontario, Canada, dairy
| institute, Miss Beele Miller put a
great dea, of good sense into practical
discussion of butter making, which is
summarized as follows:
| At school we learned that 16 ounces
make a pound and in closing my ad-
dress will just mention the 16 ounces
that a pound of finished butter should
contain:
| l, One ounce of wisdom. Let Us
show wisdom in selecting and demand
ing the best
| 2. One ounce of precantion. We
!, will take the precautiou to prope 'ly
| prepare our utensils, and leave them
| in good condition when through with
| them.
3. One ounce of concentration.
| Have your mind on your work and
you will make no mistakes.
4. One ounce of cleanliness This
| is the dairyman's motto. and needs
to be exercised in the whole process
of butter making.
5. One ounce of determination. This
will help us to overcome all dTfhcul-
ties.
6. One ounce of prevention. The
science of butter making is made up
almost entirely of preventive meas
ures
Z. One ounce of care Care is need
ed at every stage.
8. One ounce of discrimination
This is needed to distinguish flavors.
It is also needed in choosing SALT.
parchment paper, etc.
9. One ounce of forethought. What
are the requirements OF the market
for which this butter is being nader
We will consider this, and develop
flavor, add salt and color to suit our
customers.
10. One ounce of accuracy. By
making use of the scales we will know
how much butter there will be in a.
churning, and thus gauge the color
ing and salt. so that we may have uni
formity.
II. One ounce Of Judgment. We
need to have good Judgment in choos-
Ing Tie lSIApCi dIQl at "hiNh W SHoA -
and for making conditions favorable
for churning at low temperature.
H. One ounce of common sense.
If we use this we will stop churning
when the butter is in granular form.
IS. One ounce Of patience. We
must have patience in using the Their
mometer, in draining the wash water
to- x;xsn So1t
time to dissolve.
a. One ounce of experience. This
will help us in knowing when the
butter is worked enough, and not
over worked and greasy.
Is. One ounce of neatness. This
applies to person and to product. and
especially to the printing and wrap
ping of the butter.
16. This is the ounce Of honor. We
will do our best, use what Is best.
and give such weight that the butter
will be full 16 ounces when it reaches
the consumer. The extra ounce will
be that of good humor, which goes
with all our work.-Indiana Farmer.
CUTTING BACK PEACH TREES.
A bulletin from the Missouri exper-
iment station says that of all orchard
trees. the peachtree stands in greatest
need of regular and severe pruning.
If left unpruned. the tree makes
| good growth while young and produces
few crops of fruit Each year. how
| ever, the fruit is farther removed from
| the trunk of the tree. the wood be-
comes weaker, the twigs near the body
| Of the tree die. leaving long, stray
Cling. weak limbs. which bear fruit
| only at their extremities, are liable
to break when heavily loaded, and do
not shade and protect the trunk OF
the tree. The gathering of the fruit
from these high limbs is expensive
and the fruit itself is of inferior quail
ity.
The object of pruning is to keep the
tree low, compact in form, with new
fruiting wood as near the trunk OF
the tree as possible. Under normal
conditions, when peach trees have
passed the winter safely and promise
to produce crop of fruit, they should
be pruned each winter by cutting
back the main limbs, so as to leave
one-half or two-thirds of the new
growth which contains the fruit buds.
When the fruit buds have been win
ter killed, the opportunity may be
seized to cut back the main limbs
more severely, thus securing more
compact trees. and avoiding the for
nation of long struggling limbs which
the trees have tendency to form II
they are not cut back. The amount
of cutting back depends upon the ex-
tent to which the trees have been in
jured.
If only the fruit buds have been
killed and the wood of the tree is I'M
injured, trees of compact form if they
have been annually pruned should
have their main limbs shortened so as