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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 explains ex-plains 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 flow into one pool," she said recently. re-cently. The churn she uses is a century old and she has worn out many a home-made dasher in it. She keeps the cream only a short time before 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 flat wooden paddle. That works the milk from the butter in about 10 minutes. She puts the butter away for several hours and then works it again 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. |