Show woman has churned 10 tons of butter EVERTON MO mrs gala 0 fletcher of everton by actual account kept in an old ledger has churned pounds of butter by hand in an old fashioned brassbound churn in her 78 years she explains that she has been churning butter since she was tour 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 1 have churned should flow into one pool she said recently the churn she uses Is a century old and she has worn out many a homemade home made dasher in it she keeps the cream only a short time before she churns chums 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 I 1 it t with a circular movement using a flat wooden paddle that works the milk from the butter in about 10 minutes she puts the butter away for several hours and the then works work it again to get out the la last st of 0 f the milk drops the finished butter Is a golden ball in order to have the best buttermilk mrs fletcher leaves flakes of butter floating in it after 75 years experience she believes she understands all phases of butter making contentment among cows is as important to good butter as the right kind of feed she believes |