The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-10-08
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lfy-seven Dollars Per Week From
q Ten Cows.

Feffy-seven Dollars Per Week From
Ten Cows.
dwin C. Taylor. in Southern Ru.
st." says:
We only have a small dairy of thir,
90 COWS; we make a speciality OF
nncy butter and buttermilk. l go to
market three times a week. We have
Q forty-fve gallon barrel churn that
works backward and forward and gives
splendid results with least labor. Mon.
day we had eleven gallons of cream
snl made thirty-one pounds of gilt.
oQee butter churned In about thirty
Unutes. On Wednesday we had TWEEN.
" and one-Aslf pounds, and on Friday
eWpnty and one-half pounds, making
ooyenty.two pounds of butter from ten
oeRs that we were milking, one a
oe1fer that lost her calf at seven
Unnths when she was sixteen months
~. Two others are cows that will
have calves In July. The other COWS
were freshened in February and
Aarch. Most pr my cows are thorough.
bred Jerseys or high grade, We have
. cream separator, and from thirteen
gallons OF milk this morning we got
three and one-half gallons of cream. I
iced the heavy mixers in the winter
about gallon of wheat bran and a
MAPPING quart Of cotton seed meal
With about three gallons Of cotton seed
hplls at a feed night and morning. The
seows are turned out on the range
md get no other roughness the whole
,year round. Heifers and the smaller
'milkers do not get quite so much
grain. The most Of the buttermilk is
cold to colored people. who come to
the house for It the day we churn at
10 cents gallon. The skim milk from
the separator is put in stone jars hold
ing five gallons and allowed to clab.
Der. On market mornings we put
all that Is clabbered into the churn
and churn II for about ten or fifteen
minutes, enough to thoroughly break
Il up and make It smooth and thick,
end you ought to see how my custom.
ers like t. have no trouble In get.
ting customers for every woman who
uses 1t tells her neighbors about it.
and I often have to refuse to sell to
new people. l get 20 cents gallon
for all the sour milk. Should any Of
The milk get too sour to make good
buttermilk, we put It In a 10O-pound
can and set on the back Of the kitchen
stove until 1t is slightly warm, not
hot-then empty into a cotton sack
and hang up to drain. We do this
at night, and next morning empty into
. big dish pan and put on little salt
and some cream and then work 1t with
our hands like mixing bread until 1t
ds smooth, and put little over pint
OF the curd In a clean white cloth
and wrap 1t up and sell it for 10 cents
q package as cottage cheese or smear
kase. l have a great demand for It.
I get So cents a pound for butter. Last
week ! sold 10 pounds of butter for
e24.5O; 100 gallons of buttermilk, $50;
Is packages of smearkase, $3.50; 2 1-2
gallons sweet milk at 40 cents a gal.
Ion, 81. Total, $47.30, from ten cows
IN one week This week we win do
better, as we will have three more
fresh cows. have two registered Jer.
sey cows and a registered bull four
teen months old.
After a bit expect to have better
lot of cows than | have now. Have
one-two-yeaf-eld- heffer fresh about
three weeks that gives over four gal.
Ions of milk day. We are town
people; have only been on the farm
for four years. My daughter, myself
and a colored boy do all the work;
have ten acres In bottom, four in corn,
one and one-haH In Irish potatoes and
other garden stuff, and a strawberry
pc Oh Of one-fourth of an acre. take
d half dozen farm papers, but the
Ruralist beats them all in practical
matter for the Southland.
Springdale Farm. Little Rock, Ark, |
Route 3, Box 80.