Show s ric vic ha TEN RULES FOR FOB MAKING B U UV T T E 9 rv I 1 in ln making good butter there are sevens lal jal A I 1 nice operations to be gone through sith with which require an eye bye to cleanly less bess less forethought and some little expedience fience 0 1 on milking clean fast yet gently regularly twice A day depends upon the 1 h i success of the dairyman bad should not be tole toie tolerated rated in a her herd d better m k j pay double price for good ones ar 1 2 straining is quite simple but it should be borne in mind that two pans about h half lf full each will produce a greater amount of cream than the s same line i milk in but one pan the reason of this ysis is the greater surface c 3 scalding dingis is quite an important feat gure gare in the way of making bufter in cool j tw weather eather tha cream rises much quicker k the milk keeps much longer the butter cutter is of a better color and churns in ohie ofie one j L a aalf saif palf the time d 3 4 skimming skim min should always bedine uri before the milk becomes coppered lopp ered other fwise much of the cream turns turna 1 into nto whey i giand viand Jandis is lost j 5 Chu churning whether by hand or otherwise should occupy forty or fifty j t 6 washing in cold soft water is one lof i of its preserving qualities and should be be continued until it shows no color of dahe athe milk by the use of the ladle very ilhard richard water is highly charged with limb limo vand yand must in a measure impart to it al akaline lk aline allne properties ies les 7 Sal sai salting i s n necessarily donewirth do done with the tile eibest ebest kind of ground salt the according to the state it 15 is t a ii r fr om the churn if soft I 1 more ich f hard at d hiess j lyless always taking the taste f for or tiie tye file surest guide i 1 8 first working after about panty twenty 7 abour ilour hours k is for the burp purpose se 0 of g lvin ivin 9 I 1 i I 1 1 1 I uit greater compactness I 1 I 1 t 9 second working takes place at time lof lot packing and when the butter bufter has al dissolved the salt that the brine may be worked ed out aa 14 10 packing is done with the hands big bis hig s or with a butter abutter mall and when butter ua fis ils is put into info wooden vessels they should abo soaked two or three days in a strong adrine before using after each packing ceover ct cc cover over the butter with a wet cloth and adut a layer of salt upon it in this way 11 withe the salt call can easily be removed at abany any time by simply taking hold hoid of the edges dof of the eloth cloth r I 1 3 butter made in this way will keep sany any length of time required amary fary jand land farmer coby cory CORN coay T SMUT POISO polso POISONOUS i TO tl CATTLE i ti EDITORS COUNTRY GENTLEMEN A please find a slip cut from the i american farmer about smut on corn yi I 1 consider it a poisonous fungus somei what similar to ergot in rye which also Qs iia tia found in various other grasses and to the presence of which in part I 1 altri rl baute I 1 bute the fact that cattle will not thrive some seasons as at others even with the 00 f greatest abundance of hay T S old aid GOLD west Corn cornwall ivall lyall conn ilo lie s IS CORN SMUT POISONOUS TO at CAT TLE sir mr E wood of lester iowa iona says the prairie farmer lost three oxen r three cows and three calves last winter the he supposed from eating the snouts of at cornstalks corn stalks he raised one and nd a half TO acre of king philip corn which was wu very smutty not oni only many ears with smut upon the them in but ut occasion occasionally all ail bunches of clear smut all left on t the e 3 stalks bound and stacked when cold weather came on the cattle were wele fed plenteously on these stalks on the of morning of of the thi third raday day he found one in dead the eight died within two da days lu al th they ey w were e re supplied with water daily T the h e fi finst first symptoms sym were wea weakness nes nos haa han would reel in walking if lying hyang down ia 7 would lie apparently easy for two hours w othen then bebing to twitch or jerk in the V shoulder breathe hard roll on the side hide occasionally and groan for one or two hours before dying would lie con on the side with legs stretched out and manifest extreme pain would rw die within six AK or eight hours after show rw h ing the first symptoms of the disease I 1 All ali masses of smut grown on cornstalks corn stalks a or ally any other part of the ears cars of this ap grain brain should bo be carefully removed so 10 wl las as no not to taint the fodder or seed of the jol ia plant consumed by man or beast lal sal ail all country gentlemen 1 ata gia 01 THE the tree 1111 lill from which alithe aalthe all ali the have been lilu ilia derived by a succession of buds and grafts is a chaia chance seedling first discovered by a hunter in a meadow upon the banks of tile 7 elui elul ciui Tf while nil ril adelphia was waa still young we copy the following account of its present appear ance from the g monthly of that city I 1 would you find it reader mine with a tithe of the bother and time it cost ma me then drive straight to the point breeze park race course any sporting friend or fast man can tell you where that is follow the narrow lane which skirts it on the east till a pair of bars obstruct your further progress then iii inquire inquires of the inmates of the humble farmhouse just over the fence and they will wil I 1 kindly point you to the object of your tour journey it stands in an open grass meadow reclaimed long years yeara sinco since from the passing waters surrounded ed bv a plain substantial fence of post and rail erected at the thoughtful instance of the late dr W D brinckle as a protection against the depredation of cattle and the rude root pruning of the plow like most degreat historic personages the tree is of small stature being bein dein 9 only about twenty five feet high compact in form and giving no igns in limb or branch of decrepitude or decay yet the trunk which h would measure six feet feat in circumference if sound and ond entire is now reduced to a mere shell of about two inches in thickness and en circling only the south easterly half yet suell such is the inherent vigor of thi this 8 lottle tittle monarch among pears that he has survived many a prop put up to sustain his declining years A stout oaken scantling the last of all ills his supports support st 1 has long iong since gonet gone tonet th hOway eway of all departed artud timber and still the hearty little tree lives on 0 in a green and hale old age from his crown there have sprung up two thrifty vigorous shoots about eight feet each in height which may his linea linca ageo hu mai V liet kiet unborn orn 1 T V |