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ing, which will be done by dissolving as much salt in cold water 

 as it will take up. 



Now put this strong brine in the churn in quantity sufficient 

 to cover the butter, and allow it to stand for a few minutes un- 

 til each globule of butter has a film of brine around it, and your 

 washing and salting is done. The salting is at the rate of one- 

 half ounce of salt to the pound of butter, and the butter is freer 

 of buttermilk, and all other adulterations, than by any other 

 known way of making it. 



Take out the butter and put it on the worker or in the but- 

 ter bowl, and work just enough to make it compact and to get 

 out the excess of brine ; then print or pack. But remember one 

 thing, don't touch the butter with your naked hands in any 

 stage of its manufacture." 



DROUGHTS. 



The protracted droughty seasons of 1886 and 1887 have called 

 general attention to the subject of droughts and many conjec- 

 tures as to its possible prevention have been advanced. We 

 have been well aware of the influence of forests on drought 

 areas, and in view of the importance of the question which 

 interests every land owner, we have taken special pains to secure 

 and take great pleasure in presenting the members of the Illinois 

 State Dairymen's Association with a copy of a practical and 

 exhaustive paper upon the subject, delivered before the last 

 forestry congress in Springfield, by Dr. D. Berry, of Carmi, who 

 said: 



" A few years ago the systematic work of the United States 

 signal service bureau established the fact that to the southwestward 

 from the great lakes was a wide area of low barometic pressure 

 which was persistent for several months in each year — notably 

 during the spring and summer. This area has been called the 

 great barometric trough of low pressure. It is in the form of an 

 ellipse and is about 600 miles long by 400 miles wide. This 

 area is subject to a great many frightful atmospheric disturb- 

 ances, known as tornadoes, and to occasional periods of long- 

 continued drought. It does not create these tornadoes, but fur- 



