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Show Woman Has Churned, 10 Tons of Butter EVERTON. MO. Mrs. Gala O. Fletcher of Everton, by actual account ac-count kept in an old ledger, has churned 21,000 pounds of butter by hand in an old-fashioned brass-bound brass-bound churn in her 78 years. She ex-plaint ex-plaint that she has been churning butter since she was four years old when she had to stand on a wooden box to grasp the dasher handle. "It would be quite a lake if all the cream I have churned should j flow into one pool," she said recently. re-cently. The chum she uses Ls a century old and she has worn out many a home-made dasher in it. She keeps the cream only a short time before j she churns it so that the butter she makes will be sweet. After the butter is churned she places it in a large earthen crock which has been sunning for several hours. Then she starts working it with a circular movement, using a j flat wooden paddle. That works the ! milk from the butter in about 10 j minutes. She puts the butter away for several hours and then works it gain to get out the last of the milk drops. The finished butter is a golden gold-en ball. ' In order to have the best buttermilk. butter-milk. Mrs. Fletcher leaves flakes of butter floating in it. After 75 years' experience she believes she understands under-stands all phases of butter making. Contentment among cows is as important to good butter as the right kind of feed, she believes. |
