^^£RICAN HERD-BOOli 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Liebio. 



Vol. IX — No. 8.] 



3rtl mo. (March) 15th, 1845. 



[^Vhole No. 122. 



PUBLISHED MONTIILY, 



BY JOSIAH TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



" Difficulty iu Churning Butter," obvi- 

 ated. 



The last Number of the Cabinet contains 

 an appeal to its editor and readers, on the 

 difficulty of making butter in the winter, 

 which, from its interestinsT source — "Young 

 Wives" — ^and from its intrinsic merits, seems 

 calculated to elicit prompt, and perhaps nu- 

 merous replies. The following, which ap- 

 pears to embrace the true principle, and to 

 be conclusive on the subject, is the result of 

 the experience of a noted agriculturist, VV. 

 Allen, of N. Andover, published in the New 

 England Farmer of January 14th, 1835, and 

 is offered to the editor of the Cabinet for in- 

 sertion, if nothing more eligible present. I 

 regret that the inquiry appeared so late in 

 the season, that the cause of the evil — the 

 cold weather — will have passed away be- 

 fore the remedy can have reached the suf- 

 ferers; and I trust "Young Wives" will not 

 think me unreasonable, if, as an indemnity 



Cab.— Vol. IX.— No. 8. 



for the slight labour caused me in transcrib- 

 ing and in researci), I request them accu- 

 rutdy to test it on the first return of the 

 cold weather of the ensuing winter, and to 

 spend the time saved in a single process of 

 churning, in giving, through the Farmers' 

 Cabinet, the result to the public, and to 



Index, 



Philadelphia, ?econd mo., 1845. 



" Having thought much on the subject, 

 and experienced all the uncertain results of 

 which others complain, I have been led to 

 the conclusian, — which experiments have 

 confirmed — that there is a certain degree of 

 heat, — could it be ascertained — to which 

 the cream might be raised, which would 

 ensure a quick process in the formation and 

 separation of the butter from the whey or 

 milk, at the same time preserve the quality 

 of the butter, and prevent that frothiness and 

 softness which are the never failing result 

 of long continued churning. 



" To ascertain the degree of heat neces- 

 sary to insure a short process, we heated the 

 cream on the hearth to about 72, or 73 de- 

 grees — this,, with heat in the chum, which 

 was scalded with boiling water, gave to the 

 cream about 75 degrees heat. In six or 

 seven trial.?, during the months of Novem- 

 ber and December, the longest process in 

 churning was twenty minutes, the shortest 

 ten. The butter has been uniformly sweet 

 and hard, and in nothing inferior to that 

 made in October, except in colour. The 



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