Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-07-10

er it was just what I wanted or not,
and in the spring butter would get
plentiful and they would have more
than they could handle we'll and I
would get discouraged with butter
making.
I used cloths to wrap butter in,
which was very unsatisfactory, but
better than cheap butter paper, as
could not get good butter paper here.
But / finally ordered some good pa
per, which helped me in my trade.
as the butter was much nicer kept
in the paper But I was not satisfied
yet. ] wanted customer that would
take all had to sell the year round
and pay cash for IL, 80 every time
heard of any one wanting TO buy
butter I would send them a pound
or so gratis and never failed to sell
some. and in that way heard of q
man in the city so miles away that
was willing to pay q good price for
good butter the year round SO ]
wrote him and shipped him some on
approval and he ordered six pounds
a week, but that still left me with a
surplus to barter at home. but in a
few weeks, when his neighbors found
he was getting good butter from tho
country, they wanted him to get
them some. so he ordered from 10 to
10 pounds a week and now he takes
all can send him each week
now use butter paper with the name
OF our farm printed on It, which inn
proves the looks Of the package so
much l never send butter out wrap
ped in any other kind of paper. BY
buying It IL large quantities butter
paper does not cost very much.
My advice to any one selling but
ter would be to print your name on
your paper, as it has helped me more
than anything else and makes such
a nice-looking package.
AS live too far from town to uss
ice in the sumner. put my butter
in buckets and put them In the we'll
which keeps It nice and cool so
can mold it perfectly / pack my
butter in fruit baskets and sew Q
cloth over top of It. using five-cent
bleached domestic for covering and
, in the summer when II is so warm
send Il to town In time to put 1t II
the ice house for a few hours before
, time to put on express car and Z
! reaches the city a few hours later IL
good order. ! also buv my baskets
in large quantities. which is cheap
er than getting them few at I
time.
l now have a good trade, but /
l took two or three years to get 1t
but am going to try to keep m.
butter up to the standard and i'm
prove it, If possible, as 1t brings m
, good profit. And living four o
five miles from the railroad is n
excuse why any one should not kee
more cows than they can use q
home. They improve farm S
much, too, and another thing, COW
should have pure water to drink an
as much as they want. water m
cows from the we'll; they won't drin
. just any kind of water.
: always try to give good meas
: ure and never be one ounce short
i would much rather give overweight
1 want my pound to be pound O
s over on any mans scales. / get OF
}, ders for lots more than / have an
a 1 am going to increase my cows fo
n another year. 1t keeps me prett
v busy, as l do all the milking an
d tending The butter myself. but Ell
n Joy it. especially when my MONTH
check comes in.
y Every weed you destroy in ii
/ orchard or in the garden before.
h natures seeds is one less to caui
i you trouble nest year. One wee
y may produce hundreds of Thousand
v Of seed to give you trouble ne'
. ,sar 1t will be seen what 1t NEAR
, 10 let one pest produces seed for ne,
y"ar's trouble. - is worth conside
% arie trouble and expense to nc,
p wee.s from pro iuCirs ss"is. c,
!. them down bef IRE they go to sssd.
1 lhe sweet potatoes should be GU
= tivp-ed as late az the vines will pc
- y T'i. Potato slips that were set Ia
y this season should have amLle cult
Sauon TO conserV the soil molstui
:. The plants will rel rte sssTiderab
- moisture and plent7 of plant foo
a wa,n the tubers are formed. 1t