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cream than a skimmer. The cream is so deep that little milk 

 will be dipped up with it, and what is will be no disadvantage. 

 The handle to the ladle should be nearly perpendicular to the bowl 

 so as to enable one to use it easily when a can is not full of milk. 

 There is a style of can on the market which dispenses with 

 skimming, as it is provided with a cock at the bottom to draw 

 off the milk, the cream being left in the can; but 

 when made with flat bottom, I would not recommend 

 them, as they have two objections. First, the diffi- 

 culty of keeping it sweet. Milk is so difficult to 

 remove from tubes or pipes, and these sour so 

 quickly and become so offensive if not thoroughly 

 cleansed, that all vessels used for milk should be 

 made plain, with every part easy of access. Second. 

 With the greatest care there will sometimes be 

 foreign matter in the milk, which will settle and 

 adhere to the bottom of the can, and this would 

 be left in the cream. It is not uncommon for a cow 

 to give a small amount of bloody milk from one 

 teat when you first begin to milk, and if the milk- 

 ing is done in a dark stable or at twilight the milker 

 may not observe it, and it will be found at the 

 bottom of the can, and if the milk is drawn off and 

 the cream left in the can, it will be likely to con- 

 taminate it. 



In the best cans now in use, the bottom is made funnel- 

 shaped, like the skimmer shown in the cut, and any sediment 

 in the milk will gather in this and be drawn off first. They 

 are also arranged with a glass tube for the milk to flow through, 

 so that you can at once see when the cream begins to come, and 

 stop the flow. 



It is an excellent plan for those who keep but one or two 

 cows to save stoppings and add to the cream, so as to give bulk 

 enough to enable them to churn every other day in hot weather. 

 Churns and Churning. Probably no household im- 

 plement has been the subject of so much study, or has so 

 taxed inventive genius, as the churn. Churns of every conceiv- 



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