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Milk-pans and Butter. 



Vol. IV. 



down smooth. Every farmer should have a i 

 small, light roller for his garden, and a large, I 

 heavy one for his fields, to be used as occa- 1 

 sion may require. And if, in addition to 

 rolling turnip ground, the seed be sown four 

 or five times as thick as would be proper to 

 stand for a crop, then there would be an' 

 abundance for the fly to feast upon, and enough | 

 left to satisfy the farmer — and if the fly should ' 

 not thin them sufficiently, cut them out with 

 a hoe, or run a harrow through them, to re- 

 duce them to proper distances, to favour their 

 growth. 



The advantage of compacting the earth to 

 the seed, is exemplified in planting corn. The 

 corn first makes its appearance where the 

 impression of the foot is, and with more 

 vigour than it does where the soil covers it 

 lightly. 



Delaware county. 



Milk-pans and Bntter« 



To tlie Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Sir, — I beg to present you with a sample 

 of bona fide sugar-beet butter, made by Mr. 

 Homer Eachus, of Edgmont, Delaware coun- 

 ty, according to the method described at page 

 91 of the Farmers' Cabinet for October last, 

 and to which I refer your readers. The pans 

 which he has adopted, are double, and made 

 of tin ; but the milk does not flow away by a 

 tap, as in those made of zinc, and there de- 

 scribed : he is, however, so perfectly satisfied 

 with the result, that he raises all the cream 

 of the dairy by means of the hot water bath, 

 and has verified the statements contained in 

 the above account, to his entire satisfaction. 

 I add an assurance, that tiie colour of the 

 butter is natural, not artificial. 



Respectfully, 



C. D. 



Philade phia, March 16, 1840. 



With the above, we received a sample of 

 beautiful butter — an article of which we pro- 

 fess to be a judge — better looking we have 

 never seen ; and its flavour corresponded with j 

 its appearance. In our opinion, Mr. Eachus 

 stands high as a dairyman, and his dairy has 

 the right kind of fixins, no doubt: that he 

 keeps good cows, and feeds them well'on 

 sugar-beets, the butter sent us bears ample 

 testimony. We remark, it would be utterly 

 impossible to communicate to butter the clear 

 and delicate colour which this exhibits, by 

 any artificial means whatever. 



Accompanying the above, we received from 

 our friend Benjamin Cooper, of Camden, a 

 quantity of flour, made from spring wheat of 



his own raising — the bread from which was 

 sweet, white, and very light ; and we made 

 an excellent breakfast on bread of the first 

 quality, well buttered. The spring wheat 

 cultivated by Mr. Cooper, is of the variety 

 called tea wheat ; and to the circumstance of 

 his great care and attention in the selection 

 of his seed, much, no doubt, of his success in 

 the cultivation is to be attributed. A sample 

 of the above spring wheat may be seen at 

 our office. 



Since writing the above, we have seen, in 

 the columns of the Public Ledger, the follow- 

 ing notice, acknowledging the reception of a 

 sample of the butter above mentioned. Our 

 tastes and feelings accord so exactly on the 

 subject, that we cannot forego the pleasure of 

 copying it. The editor of the Ledger will 

 please accept our thanks for the favourable 

 notice which he has taken of our publica- 

 tion. — Ed. 



" Sugar Beet Butter. — We acknowledge 

 the reception of a specimen of the richest 

 article of the butler kind that we have almost 

 ever had the good fortune to meet with. It 

 is of a bright yellow hue, which we are told 

 is natural, and not the eftect of artificial 

 colouring. The flavour of the butter is not 

 to be surpassed, and we must freely acknow- 

 ledge that we have seldom known it equalled. 

 This luxurious article of diet was made by 

 Mr. Homer Eachus, of Edgmont, Delaware 

 county. Pa. Mr. Eachus does his work sci- 

 entifically ; and those farmers who sneer at 

 " book directions," would find their infidelity 

 staggered by the examination of such speci- 

 mens of country produce as that now before 

 us. Mr. E. has adopted the mode of butter- 

 making described in the Farmers' Cabinet 

 for October, and that he has been eminently 

 successful, we can bear witness. Farmers 

 and dairymen are recommended to peruse 

 the article just referred to in the Farmers' 

 Cabinet : they will find there some hints re- 

 specting milk-pans, which will be worth at 

 least a year's subscription to the work." 



For tlie Farmers' Cabinet. 



To PRESERVE Potatoes. — Potatoes may 

 be preserved good all the year, by immersing 

 them in boiling wator for a minute or two, so 

 as to destroy the germinating principle, and 

 then drying tlicm before they are packed 

 away. If they wore put in a basket, they 

 could be immersed and withdrawn quickly, 

 and in such quantities as would give but little 

 trouble. !• '^' 



