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ad^^ce to dairy women, wbicli as it is easily tried I 

 will insert : " Heat two pans of the same size ^^■ith 

 boiling water, let them stand a few miimtcs then pom* 

 off the water and ponr in the new milk, cover the pan 

 that has the milk in it with the empty heated pan, 

 this will raise the cream in less time and in larger 

 quantity than if put in cold pans — try it." Some 

 persons never wash their butter but absorb the butter- 

 milk in the following way. They place a lump of 

 butter in a coarse linen cloth and beat against the 

 sides of the churn, -RTinging the cloth from time to 

 time in cold salt and water, repeating the beating 

 process until the milky particles are completely re- 

 moved. The famous Epping butter is thus treated. 

 This butter has the character in London as being the 

 finest in England, very little salt is used for seasoning 

 it; and as the sale of it is so rapid, probably the 

 keeping properties have hardly been tested. 



The following recipe was given me by a farmers 

 wife who made excellent butter; "To 32 lbs. of well 

 washed butter, she allowed 3 oz. of the following 

 mixture: 2 J lbs. of salt, rolled fine; 6 oz. of saltjjetre; 

 J lb. of loaf sugar, rolled fine; these ingredients to be 

 well rubbed in a mortar, or rolled till they were thor- 

 oughly mixed. The butter after having been well 

 worked, to be put down in stone jai's; over the top a 

 strong brine to be poured, and the jar kept well cov- 

 ered. Butter thus prepared should stand untouched 

 for a month, and it wUl keep for a twelve month. 



The thorough extracting of the milky particles and 

 the working of the salt well through the mass, cannot 

 be too much insisted upon. Attention to cleanliness, 

 coolness in summer, and a moderate temperature in 

 winter, are the three most important matters for 

 ensuring good marketable butter. 



There arc doubtless in this countiy many sound 

 practical dairy women who are much more competent 

 than myself for supplying information as to the man- 

 agement of dairy produce, but however skilful in 

 practil3e, they are unused to arrange their ideas on 

 paper, and perhaps are withheld by diffidence from 

 coming forward with the valuable knowledge they 

 have acquired by long experience, and I trust thai 

 another year some one among the intelligent wives 

 or daughters of our Canadian farmers, who are better 

 qualified than myself, may come forward and give a 

 more useful and practical essay on the subject so gen- 

 erally valuable to all, as the management of the dairy 

 is acknowledged to be. 



Oakland, Rice Lake, C. W. 



Spare the Birds. — On no pretext whatever should 

 farmers or gardeners permit their birds to be disturb- 

 ed. Instead of killing them or frightening them 

 away, they should make use of every means in their 

 power to induce them to increase in number, and be- 

 come more tame and familiar. The worst of them 

 earn twenty times what they eat, and then, what ex- 

 quisite pleasure to have your garden, yard, orchard, 

 or wood, alive and vocal with the music of merry 

 birds. Plant trees for them, build houses, if neces- 

 sary, for them, and they w 11 teach you lessons of do- 

 mestic bliss — preach you sermons — and warble you 

 such hymns as you never heard elsewhere, Be kind 

 to your birds. The law is now ample to protect 

 your premises. 



Foot-evil in Horses. — A certain and sure remedy 

 for the Foot-evil, called by some " Sore-foot " ; by 

 others, " run-round " : 



Wash the horse's foot well with warm soap-suds — 

 wipe it dry with a cloth, then take two spoonfuls of 

 common table salt, two spoonfuls of copperas, pulver- 

 ize; take four spoonfuls of soft-soap (home-made), 

 mix them well: spread it upon a thick cloth, apply it 

 to the foot, then confine it with a bandage of cloth. 

 Let it remain twelve hours, then take it off; wash as 

 before, and I will warrant a cure; the disease will not 

 spread the size of a wheat grain afterwards. The 

 above is sufficient for to cure the foot alone. If, 

 when mixed, the compound be too stiff, moisten with 

 watei-. A wash of the same preparation will be good 

 for the sore nose in horses or cattle. It often hap- 

 pens that cattle have the sore foot; this is equally 

 good to cure them. ^ 



Many valuable hoi-ses have beeiwuincd by losing 

 their hoofs. By using this remedy It will always be 

 prevented. One plaster is sufficient to effect a cure. — 

 D. S., in Southci'n Cultivator. 



Poultry Cholera — A Preventive. — Seeing an 

 inquiry made some time since by "Medicus" in your 

 paper, relative to cholera in fowls, be the name what 

 it may, the symptoms are familiar to me as being very 

 prevalent here in California, carrying off thousands 

 of fowls throughout the spring and summer. To 

 prevent this, I have the following from an old fowl 

 raiser, and have found it a remarkable good remedy 

 by my own experience : 



Put 2 ounces of red oxide of iron into one pint of 

 quick lime, and this into 2 gallons of water, (to be 

 kept fresh and cool ;) let the fowls drink freely of 

 this as common water ; to about 200 fowls give this 

 one day in three. The cost is but nominal, and if it 

 succeeds with you, it will fully reward " Medicns" and 

 others who may go to the small pains to try it. — 

 Calfon, in Southern Cultivator. 



Weevil in Grain — How to Destroy. — I read an 

 article in one of your numbers which spoke of keep- 

 ing the shuck on corn, in order to prevent the weevil. 

 Keeping the shuck on the corn is the best mode of 

 preserving the corn sweet and clean, and it also pre- 

 vents the weevil ; but wheat and other grain cannot 

 be conveniently preserved in the shuck. I will give 

 a method by which the weevil may be prevented from 

 doing damage to wheat, or other grain. It is by cut- 

 ting the young (or growth of the same year) of the 

 sassafras, and placing a few branches in the bos con- 

 taining the wheat. It will be preserved for three or 

 four years entirely clear of weevil. If you think that 

 this will benefit or interest your readers you may in- 

 sert it in the Cultivator; if' not, you may treasure it 

 up. — J. M. S., in Southern Caltivator. 



" Cabbage," says the Edinburgh Revieiv, "contains 

 more muscle sustaining nutriment than any other veg- 

 whatever. Boiled cabbage and corned beef make 

 fifty-two as good dinners in twelve months as a man 



can eat." 



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Rye exists wild in Siberia. 



