Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-23
Our Household
While the Rain Pours Down
BY LIZZIE 0. THOMAS

While the KAN POufSl DOWN
The farmer came in a few days
ago and SAID that he did not re-
member ever seeing wet weather
springs in August until this year.
Those spots on the sun are respon-
sible for a great many unusual
things this year. Those spots, or
some other unusual combination Of
unnatural conditions. There never
was a finer prospect for a mann
moth corn crop, and now on the
way to Tuscumbia the scent of
soufed corn that is under water is
enough to make the stoutest heart
ask what the outcome will be. This
IS the time for the Pessimist to
thoroughly enjoy himself, and for
the other sort to whistle and keep
up his spirits. We must find some
thing to be thankful for and about
the only thing l see right now is
that this overlooked land viii be all
the better next year, but the Pes
simist said that if the sheriff sells
the people out this full they won't
have eny advantage. But I stick
to the promise that the righteous
will not be foresallen, nor his seed
beg bread" The only thing for all
Of us do is to sit stady i'll the
boat and buy nothing that is not
absolutely necessary. 1t is aston
ishing how much we can do with
out and live. L learned that in
Japan.
1 don't think that I have ever
said much in favor of the separa-
tor as a valuable adjunct to the
dairy. When we milk one COW we
do not use it, but with two or more
COWS there is q wonderful increase
in the cream. For a long time l
would not consider one because two
of my neighbors had tried them
and had to give them up on &C
count of the strength required to
turn one. l met a man at one of
the Tuscumbia fairs. who had one
that he only paid fifty dollars for
and it was not back breaking. He
MIXED twenty-siX cows and that
size suited him he advised me not
to get a smaller one as the one that
stood On the floor was more sub
stantial. l got one and one Of the
boys brought the milk from his
COWS and separated it right after
ours went through, by spring he
cream check from his five COWS
has been astonishing. We have
regular contract with a merchant
for our butter, so | am still using
the DaZey," and almost doubling
the output of butter. Some of the
separators will not get all of the
cream unless the milk is a certain
temperature, we strain the nights
it in a cool place and next morning
the fresh milk is strained in and all
run through at the same time. OF
course the cold cream must be
thoroughly stirred into the mixed
milk or it might clog the cream out
let. Then the cream can be set in
the refrigerator and is out Of the
way till churning day, which comes
twice a week with me. The farmer
on this place turns the crank, he
does the milking, and as soon as.
he gets IN from the breakfast ia
bic that cream is separated, l
wash the whole affair and the job
is over for twenty-fOur hours. l
churn nothing but the cream and
it is not half as much trouble as
the other way. We sell at ieast
one COW year, three are as much
as we want to fool with. That
keeps us with one mOdera tely
fresh, one older and a new calf of
ten enough to keep up the milk sup
ply for the pigs. Jersey cows do
not give as much milk but it is so
much richer, and it is cream you
want unless you are convenient to
a market for fresh milk. In win
ter the nights milk Is slightly
warmer when mixed.
Mix i'll any form is hard to keep,
l get ten cents a pound more for
butter than the regular price, and
the merchant says it is because it
is firm, rich yellow, and keeps.
That is really the main thing, if a
woman buys butter, no matter how
nice it looks and it sours in a few
days she is sure to complain, and
| would too. Don't let your cream
get too sour, and as soon as it
churned send it off. Let it get to
the consumer right away. If it's
sweet to the last ounce that is a
customer made permanent, and the
merchant is going to hold on to
your trade when he has to cut
down on his butter supply when
everybody is making butter at
home.
A lady-who-knows says that the
corn in brine is better if all the
shuck is taken off, she says that
corn put up in the fall seems to
keep better, and less likely to get
slick than corn put up in sum
mer. II the brine gets ropy Just
wash 1t off and make new, let it be
strong enough to float an egg. Soak
the brined corn and cook any way
you like.
l hope all OF you are getting
ready for winter eggs. See that no
lice or mites are taking toll Watch
for the unusually red combs on
your youngsters. it means sore.
head. dip the heads in water made
purple with permanganate Of pot
ash, and If there are pimples paint
with iOdyne, or the Iinseed oil mix
ture. I've frequently given vol
Carbilized vaseline Is good. and
give them a good dose of salts. Pre-.
vention is better than cure. If You
have given hem salts and sulphur
all the summer, they may have a
light attack, but isolate them as
fast as it appears and you won't
lose any. Warm rainy weather
means all sorts OF trouble in the
poultry flock and house unless you
are ready for any symptoms and
spray or paint continually.
Han, - ;,,n 40 w..