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ICAN 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. 10.] 



5th mo. (May) 15th, 1845. 



[Whole No. 124. 



rUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY JOSIAH TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see lastpage. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. ' 



To make Good Butter. 



Mr. Editor. — There is nothing requires 

 more care than the making of good butter, 

 and nothing is more wholesome when it is 

 good. Aware of this, I found that strict at- 

 tention, care and perseverance on my part, 

 were ultimately crowned with success. 

 Good butter ought to be made in winter, as 

 at any other time. The heat of summer is 

 as hard to contend with as the cold of win- 

 ter — and this convinced me that tliere was 

 a certain degree of heat more favourable 

 than another; this, after many trials with 

 the thermometer, I thought to be about 60°. 

 I will relate to you some of my discoveries 

 and observations, which no doubt will seem 

 rather stale among so many good butter 

 makers, but let me premise that these were 

 in my own dairy and under peculiar circum- 

 stances. 



First objection ; — The milk was often left 



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too long standing in the bucket before strain- 

 ed and put away. I think the sooner it is 

 put away the better, and should not be dis-i 

 turbed while the cream is rising. 



Second objection ; — The milk pans — of 

 stone ware — were never warmed, but fre- 

 quently taken from the shelf out of door, 

 and tlie milk — already cooled by standing — 

 strained into the almost freezing pans — the 

 consequence was, the too chilled milk would 

 stand a long time without casting its cream, 

 and being skimmed at regular intervals, we 

 fell short of the proper quantity of that ne- 

 cessary article, and of butter. 



Third objection ; — The skimming process 

 was not carefully done; too much milk, and 

 in the summer too much "clobber," clopper, 

 or "clabbaugh," or whatever it may be 

 called, is thrown in with the cream, which 

 in summer, gave a rancidity to the churning, 

 creating a difficulty, and sometimes entirely 

 preventing the gathering of the butter, and 

 in the winter filling the churn to no purpose. 



Fourth objection ; — Inattention while 

 churning; leaving the churn after having 

 commenced ; stopping, as they would say, 

 to rest; not regular enough in turning — we 

 use a barrel churn. All these things tend 

 to prevent the coming of the butter in a 

 proper time — and long churning tends to 

 deteriorate the quality. I found too, that 

 after the butter had come, instead of moving 

 the paddles slower to allow it to gather, 

 they continued the same quick move- 

 ment, keeping up and even raising the 



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