1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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to produce butter after adding hot water to the 

 cream or immersing the red hot tongs to kill the 

 •witches, it would come as white as hog's lard, and 

 in little detached fragments which would require 

 expert manipulations to form it into lumps. 



At present we milk four cows, and treating our 

 cream in the above named manner, our churnings 

 have caused us but little labor or trouble. In 

 the Boston Cultivator, dated Nov. 20th, 1841, 

 may be found the same in substance as the above : 



I make no pretension to new discoveries but 

 previous to that time I had seen no directions or 

 recommendations for making winter butter by the 

 above process. Every year introduces young and 

 inexpei'ienced farmers into action, and it is possi- 

 ble to such the above hints may prove of service. 



Silas Brown. 



North Wilmington, December, 1857. 



Remarks. — We have seen butter, and eaten 

 it too, made by this process in the winter, and 

 found it very sweet and hard, and of excellent 

 color. We thank Mr. Brown for his statement. 

 It comes in good time. 



WHAT FARMERS SHOULD LIVE FOR, 



There is something worth living for besides 

 money. That is very good, but it is not all. With 

 the rest, let us raise a crop of good ideas. While 

 you are fai-mers, remember also that you are men, 

 with duties and responsibilities. Live down the 

 old brutal notion that a farmer must be uncotith, 

 uneducated and unthinking — a mere ploddrapps. 



You are brought into immediate contact with 

 the great heart of civilization. You cannot gel 

 out of the reach of the buzz of the toiling world. 

 The thrill of the wonder-working wires, and the 

 rumble of the locomotive, (the thunder-tread of 

 nations,) come to your once secluded hill-side. 



Move toward a better life. Do not keep your 

 boys corn-shelling ail the long winter evenings. 

 Make your farms a place that your sons and 

 daughters cannot help loving. Cultivate the trees 

 — they are God's messengers. 



Care much for books and pictures. Don't keep 

 a solemn parlor into which you go but once a 

 month with the parson, or the gossips of the 

 sewing society. Hang around your walls pictures 

 which shall tell stories of mercy, hope, courage, 

 faith and charitj'. Make your living room the 

 largest and most cheerful in the house. Let the 

 place be such that when your boy has gone to 

 distant lands, or even when, perhaps, he clings 

 to a single plank in the lonely waters of the wide 

 ocean, the thought of the old homestead shall 

 come across the waters of desolation, bringing al- 

 ways light, hope and love. 



Have no dungeons about your house — no 

 rooms you never open — no blinds that are always 

 shut. Don't teach your daughters French before 

 they can weed a flower-bed, or cling to a side- 

 saddle ; and daughters, do not be ashamed of the 

 trowel or the pruning knife ; bring to your doors 

 the richest flowers from the woods ; cultivate the 

 friendship of birds — study botany, learn to lov^ 

 nature, and seek a higher cultivation than the 

 fashionable world can give you. — Address of D. 

 Q. Mitchell before the Connedicnt State Affricul- 

 fural Society, 



* for the New Englan-l Farmer 

 A WORD ABOUT THE USE OF MILK. 



My remarks, by way of illustration, toward 

 the close of my last article, may have excited a 

 little curiosity, and as I then intimated, may have 

 led to a desire to make the inquiry, "what would 

 farmers do with their milk if it were not m:ide in- 

 to butter and cheese ?" This question, which was 

 only answered in part at that time, I now propose 

 to consider more fully. Not that woman's time 

 is wasted no where but in connection with the 

 dairy ; for this is but a single item among many. 

 With this however, we will begin. 



I am no advocate for the use of milk by adults, 

 as will perhaps be seen hereafter. Mr. Thacher, 

 of Barnstable county, it is said, tried a long time, 

 in vain, to keep his horse on milk ; but I know 

 not why adult horses should not be as well sus- 

 tained on milk, except from habit, as adult hu- 

 man beings. "Milk for babes, stronger meat for 

 adults." And yet there is a way of using milk 

 in families, which, in comparison with the use of 

 our modern abominable mixtures, would be a very 

 great improvement. So that if I could bring so- 

 ciety to the more general use of milk to-morrow, 

 I should think myself, temporarily at least, quite 

 a philanthropist and reformer. 



But what is that legitimate use of milk to which 

 the foregoing remarks refer ? What is that sim- 

 ple method of consuming, much more generally 

 and largely than we now do, an article which, 

 though to everybody except very young child- 

 ren and a few invalids, is, after all, abstractly 

 considered, but a second rate article of food, or 

 even but a choice of evils ? 



1. Bread and milk eaten in the old fashioned 

 way, with a spoon, is, with some drawback upon 

 its excellence, so vastly superior to those multi- 

 tudinous hotch-potch mixtures which grace our 

 modern tables, that I should be glad to see three 

 times as much of it eaten as now is. True it is 

 that bread broken into milk and made soft by the 

 process, excludes pratically much of that masti- 

 cation and insalivation which are indispensable 

 to the very best and healthiest digestion ; but 

 then the bread is bread still — the staff of life or 

 nature's best — despite of the soaking. Besides, 

 the use of bread and milk practically shuts the 

 door against many of those mixtures which not 

 only consume so much of woman's time, but re- 

 bel in the stomach. For who does not know 

 that the bread and milk eater not only feels less 

 powerfully impelled towards delicate and iiijurious 

 mixtures, 4)ut actually has less room for them ? 

 jNIost certainly he who has eaten a pint of milk 

 and half a pound of bread, has a stomach less 

 empty than before he began his meal. 



Here a question always comes up from the ig- 

 norant and unobserving, "But can men and wo- 

 men who labor hard live on bread and milk ?" 

 Most certainly they can live on the bread, and 

 the milk will be no great hindrance to the full ef- 

 ficacy of what would doubtless be preferable with- 

 out it. We know this from the nature of the 

 case, since bread, as a general rule, is the most 

 nutritious food in the world ; but we know it al- 

 so from fact. One of our most gigantic medical 

 professors in this county lives largely on bread 

 and milk ; and more than one hard laborer with 

 the hands, whom I know, lives in the same way. Aa k 



