2()2 CIIURNINC AND WASHING Ti UTTER 



sweet and pure condilion l)y whitewashing or sprinkling a little 

 lime on them. 



In the preparation of a new churn for use it is a good plan 

 to treat it with milk of lime in the manner already describcfl. 

 It will fill the pores of the wood and harden it, and remove all 

 danger of imparting a woody flav(jr to the butter of the first 

 churnings made in the churn. 



To Prevent Butter from " Sticking " to the Churn.— At times 

 churns get into a condition in which butter sticks or adheres to 

 them more or less. Sometimes it requires treatment with a weak 

 acid solution to overcome this difficulty, and sometimes treatment 

 with an alkah solution is needed. If treatment with acid is 

 what is needed, a weak solution of either sulphuric or muriatic 

 acid may be used — say a pint to loo gallons of water. The 

 acid must be added carefully to the water in the churn and 

 none of it must be poured directly upon the wood. The churn 

 is revolved with this solution in it, for about live minutes at a 

 time, at intervals extending over a period of several hours. 

 It is then rinsed with warm water and then with water containing 

 a little of some good washing powder, such as Wyandotte. 

 If treatment with an alkali solution is needed, which is the case 

 if fat has soaked into the wood, a suitable washing powder ma\' be 

 Used to remove the difficulty. The following is an extract from 

 a letter received from one of our leading creameries which had 

 written for and received suggestions from one of the authors for 

 overcoming this difficulty: " We received your letter in regard to 

 the trouljle we had with the butter sticking to our churn. \\'e 

 are jjleased to advise that we have apparently eliminated all 

 of this condition. When we recei^'e(l \(iur letter suggesting 

 remedies which might stop this condition, we at first used the 

 muriatic acid but without any results whatc\'er. Then our 

 butter-maker took about three pails of Wyandotte, put in a small 

 amount of water and heated with steam until he made a sort of a 

 paste out of it. He then ])Ut it in the churn and gave it scAvral 

 revolutions and let it stanfl overnight, then washed it out 

 thoroughly with hot water. The first time it seemed to help 

 it very consiflerably, so we gave it another dose a day or two 



