No. 3. Profitable Dairy — Rasjnng Machine. 



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Profitable Dairy. 



The dairy business having become so im 

 portant a branch in the department of the 

 agriculturist, that I feel it my duty to com- 

 municate the result of one of my farmers, a 

 gentleman by the name of John Bush. He 

 had fourteen cows of the common country 

 breed, but better, on account of being better 

 fed. He raised six calves, which were fed 

 on milk ten weeks. 

 Made 2342 lbs. of first quality cheese, 



which sold at $8 per hundred, $187 36 

 Made of butter, 1591 lbs., the aver- 

 age price, 19 cents, 302 29 

 Six calves at $3 a head, 18 00 



Ten hogs fed on skimmed milk and 

 whey, worth say, $3 per head. 



$507 65 

 30 00 



$537 65 

 Hay and pasture for the 14 cows, at 



$10 per head, 140 00 



Nett proceeds, $397 65 



The average per head, 28 40 



Such were the returns from a lot of cows 

 that cost $20 a head. 



Mrs. Bush pursued the old fashioned way, 

 by skimming the milk and churning the 

 cream, and our friends in Ithaca preferred 

 her butter to any other brought to that 

 market. 



We have tried the method of making but- 

 ter in winter by heating the milk in the pans 

 after straining, to 130 Fahrenheit thermome- 

 ter; the quality is a little improved, the 

 quantity more, and the labor of churning is 

 less than one half the time required inlhe 

 old way. 



The washing of butter in cold hard water, 

 or soft, when taken from the churn, we think 

 injurious to the quality of it, and takes from 

 it that peculiar flavor which we so highly 

 prize. If you think the above statements 

 wdl be useful, let them find a place in your 

 Genesee Farmer. 



Lewis Beers. 



Rasping Machine. 



In Thorndike we saw a very simple appa- 

 ratus for grinding or rasping apples, to make 

 cider, which we thought would answer very 

 well for rasping beets. It consisted of a short 

 cylinder, about 8 or ten inches in diameter, 

 in which were driven bits of wire or headless 

 board nails, in columns, about three or four 

 inches apart, running spirally, lengthwise ofi 

 the cylinder, and the nails or wires separated, 

 perhaps a quarter of an inch. This is made 

 to revolve at the bottom of a hopper, and close 



to a hard facing on one side. The apples 

 are crushed between the teeth on the cylin- 

 der and the hard facing, at the rate of about 

 one bushel per minute. This apparatus is 

 carried by water. It is owned by Capt. 

 Timothy Ferrel, a very large farmer. The 

 same water machinery is made to turn a 

 grindstone and churn butter. A long lever, 

 swung in the middle, which can be connect- 

 ed with the grindstone crank balances up 

 and down and plies the churn dasher at the 

 other end. The butter from a large churn 

 full of cream can be extracted in about five 

 minutes. The water power is nothing but a 

 little babbling brook, but Yankee ingenuity 

 has compelled it to well work its way to a 

 larger stream — to water horses, grind apples, 

 turn grindstone, churn butter, and irrio^ate a 

 fine home-lot. — Hampshire Gazette. 



Farmer's ^Vork for August. 



Secure the products of harvest. — The 



Baltimore Farmer advises as follows: "After 

 your harvesting shall have been completed, 

 then turn your attention to getting out your 

 grain for market. The soor^er that is done 

 the less you will lose by vermin, and in nine 

 times out of ten, you will find that your grain 

 will command as good a price at this season 

 of the year, as any other. Besides, the soon- 

 er the better this necessary work is off your 

 hand, as being relieved of it, you will be able 

 to avail yourself of circumstances as they oc- 

 cur, and thus turn every thing to the best 

 advantage. 



At a late Agricultural meeting in this 

 town, the Rev. Mr. Barastow stated a fact 

 which should be more extensively known. 

 He, last year, bargained to let his kvj acres 

 for the season, but the man objected to half 

 an acre of sandy land, as not worth cultivat- 

 ing. "Very well," said Mr. B., " I will take 

 care of that myself" He planted it with 

 yellow corn, having only a thin coat of ma- 

 nure, the last of April— covered it double the 

 usual depth, so that the root was safe, while 

 the frost nipped the top off" once or twice. 

 When it was fit to hoe, he spread around 

 each cluster of stalks one-third of a pint of 

 house ashes. In the fall he husked from the 



half acre, seventy bushels of sound ears. 



Keene Sent. 



The wheat harvest in the upper part of 

 South Carolina is now over, and the crop has 

 proved very good. A Greenville paper says, 

 " it has certainly been many years since the 

 harvest throughout the Southern states has 

 yielded so abundantly, or so large and beau- 

 tiful grain." 



