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spoiled by churning the cream too warm. If your butter comes 

 rather warm, put in twice the salt you usually do, work your but- 

 ter just enough to mix the salt well through it, and set it away in 

 a cool place for twenty-four hours, then take it up and work it 

 over. Much of the salt will be dissolved and will work out. 

 Thoroughly cleanse your butter with salt. Use no cold water 

 about your butter, for you cannot cleanse butter or any other lump 

 of grease with water. Some women talk as though butter was not 

 fit to eat unless it is first washed with cold water. If butter is not 

 fit to eat without being washed with water, it is not by being 

 washed. Water always damages butter. Butter that is washed 

 with water is not fit to pack, for it will not keep. When the brine 

 that oozes from your butter, as you work it, is clear, that is, clear 

 from milk, it is worked enough; don't give it another stroke, except 

 to get it into shape. Pack your butter in perfectly clean vessels, 

 and keep it well covered with strong brine. When you use your 

 butter, set it on the table just as you cut it out of the tub, for it is 

 injured if worked after it has been packed. If all butter was 

 made after this plan, we would see but little that is poor. I am 

 very jealous of women's rights, and one is to make good butter, 

 and many other good things, and be amply rewarded for it. 



CARE OF FAKVI IMPLEMENTS. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — Most people seem to think that if their 

 tools and implements are protected from the influence of the sun, 

 they suffer no injury during the rainy and lowering weather. But 

 this is a serious mistake. The influence of any, and all Idnds of 

 weather, is always more or less injurious to farm implements, 

 whether the various parts are made of iron, or a portion only of 

 iron, and the remainder of wood. As a general rule, the injury 

 and damage done to farm implements by unnecessarj- exposure to 

 the influence of the weather, wears out the working parts more than 

 all the labor that is performed by them. And this is more emphati- 

 cally true along the seacoast, where the sea breezes, highly charged 

 T:\:h saline material, come in contact with those parts of imple- 

 ments which have polished steel or iron surfaces. Several hundred 

 miles away from the sea-shore, mechanics experience little difficulty 

 in keeping their saw-blades, and other steel tools, from rusting. 

 But, near the salt water, steel plows, saws, cultivator-teeth, polished 

 bearings of mowing machines, steel rake-teeth, and all such imple- 

 ments, rust very quickly, when not in actual use, if the polished 



