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{'HE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  26 
Errors  of  a  Bilious  Ther¬ 
mometer. 
Not  a  hundred  miles  from  the  center  of 
Delaware  County  in  New  York  State  lives 
an  estimable  couple — man  and  wife — who 
have  passed  middle  age  and  who  have 
lived  all  their  married  life  on  the  farm 
they  qow  call  their  home.  It  was  a  gift 
from  the  father  of  the  bride  on  the  day 
she  was  married  and  the  then  young  hus¬ 
band  had  money  enough  saved  to  partially 
stock  it  and'  start  in  on  a  farmer’s  life, 
with  but  few  debts.  Industry  and  econ¬ 
omy  soon  enabled  them  to  get  out  of 
debt.  They  have  a  dairy  of  about  10 
cows;  they  formerly  ran  a  larger  one, 
but  are  comfortably  off,  have  no  children, 
and  are  not  working  quite  so  hard  as  in 
their  younger  days. 
The  writer  of  these  lines  occasionally 
visits  the  old  people.  He  is  a  gicat 
stickler  for  modern  ideas  and  methods — 
the  old  lady  is  conservatism  personified, 
lie  has  often  urged  her  to  change  her 
methods  and  utensils  for  better  ones,  but 
to  no  avail.  Her  little  dog-power  drives 
her  old-fashioned  dog  churn,  she  sets  her 
milk  in  shallow  pans  and  tempers  the 
cream  with  her  finger — just,  as  she  proud¬ 
ly  says,  her  mother  and  her  grandmother 
did  before  her.  No  amount  of  talk  and 
presents  of  farm  literature  had  ever  pro¬ 
duced  any  visible  effect,  until  about  a 
month  ago,  on  the  occasion  of  a  brief 
visit,  circumstances  helped  to  give  the 
good  old  lady  an  object-lesson  which  she 
was  forced  to  admit.  Let  her  tell  the 
story  in  her  own  words  as  she  told  it  to 
me  on  my  arrival. 
“I  ain’t  feelin’  very  well  to-day.  I 
waked  up  this  raornin’  with  a  pesky  head¬ 
ache  an’  then  I  had  a  heap  of  trouble 
with  the  churnin’.  I  couldn’t  git  the 
butter  to  come.  I  made  it  jist  as  warm 
as  usual  an’  put  the  dog  on  the  machine. 
After  he  had  churned  about  three-quar¬ 
ters  of  an  hour,  I  begun  to  git  discour¬ 
aged.  1  put  a  little  more  hot  water  in  it, 
but  I  was  mity  careful— I  don't  like 
scalded  butter,  whitey  and  poor.  So  I 
sot  the  dog  a-goin’  agin’  and  churned  and 
churned  and  churned,  until  his  tongue 
hung  out — he  was  that  tired.  1  he  buttei 
wouldn’t  come  an’  the  pesky  milk  is  in 
the  churn  yet.  Troubles  always  seem  to 
come  in  groups.  Last  time  I  had  ahead- 
aclie,  I  had  jist  sich  a  time  with  the 
churnin’ — the  butter  wouldn’t  come. 
All  at  once  the  solution  of  the  trouble 
flashed  through  my  mind,  and  I  pro¬ 
ceeded  to  enlighten  the  old  lady  at  once 
as  follows : 
“Now,  Aunty,  listen  to  me.  The  trouble 
with  your  milk  was  in  its  temperature. 
It  was  too  cold.  You  awakened  with  a 
headache  this  morning— you  are  bilious- 
have  a  sluggish,  inactive  liver  and  con¬ 
sequently  have  anything  but  an  active 
circulation.  ^  our  feet  are  a  little  cold  , 
are  they  not  ?  ” 
“Well,  yes,  they  are  rather  cold.” 
“  I  thought  so.  So  are  your  hands. 
Owing  to  your  headache  and  impaired 
circulation,  your  hands  were  cold  as  well 
as  your  feet  and  when  you  tempered  the 
cream  with  your  finger,  it  seemed  to  your 
cold  fingers  10  or  15  degrees  warmer  than 
it  really  was.  You  must  have  a  ther¬ 
mometer.  That  never  gets  cold  fingers, 
never  has  impaired  circulation.  ^  ou  ad¬ 
mitted  that  the  last  time  you  had  a  head¬ 
ache  you  had  just  the  same  trouble. 
Now,  I  am  going  to  town,  and  will  buy 
you  a  thermometer  and  you  must  temper 
that  cream  as  it  should  be  done — about 
70  degrees  for  this  time  of  the  year.” 
Off  I  went ;  I  got  the  thermometer  and 
hastened  back.  The  churn  had  been 
rolled  into  the  kitchen  near  the  stove, 
where  the  contents  did  not  grow  cooler. 
When  the  thermometer  was  put  in,  it 
showed  a  temperature  of  59  degress.  Hot 
water  was  carefully  stirred  in  until  it 
was  warmed  up  to  71  degrees  and  then  it 
was  taken  to  the  churning  room,  where 
30  minutes’  work  by  the  now  rested  dog, 
brought  a  good  yield  of  butter. 
The  old  lady  acknowledged  “  the  corn.” 
She  could  not  help  it,  and  since  that  date 
she  has  tempered  her  cream  with  the 
thermometer.  But  she  resists  all  other 
innovations  as  much  as  ever  and  laughs  in 
my  face  when  I  suggest  that  other  churns 
are  better  than  the  “dash.”  progress. 
A  Successful  Canadian 
Garden. 
“  GO  THOU  AND  DO  LIKEWISE  !  ” 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Canadian  Horti¬ 
cultural  Society,  Mr.  W.  S.  Turner  read 
the  following  paper : 
A  number  of  years  ago  I  obtained  possession  of  a 
small  piece  of  ground  containing  the  needed  build¬ 
ings  and  about  a  quarter  of  an  acre  that  was  used  as 
the  garden  here  referred  to.  Quack  and  Nut  Grass 
and  wormwood  covered  the  ground,  while  a  few 
apple  trees  were  well  furnished  with  dead  branches, 
suckers,  bark  lice,  borers,  etc. 
Being  sensible  of  my  utter  ignorance,  I  subscribed 
for  The  Rural  New-Yorker,  and  was  especially 
instructed  by  the  articles  by  Joseph  Harris,  and.  fol¬ 
lowing  the  advice  therein  received,  I  bought  manure, 
plowed  In  all  I  possibly  could,  using  so  much  Indeed 
that  neighbors  thought  I  was  a  manure  crank.  To 
feed  what  little  stock  I  had,  I  planted  corn  and  pota¬ 
toes,  and  a  few  pumpkins  among  the  corn,  on  part  of 
the  lot. 
When  I  commenced  gardening,  which  was  very  up¬ 
hill  work,  as  I  had  enjoyed  no  experience,  not  having 
even  3een  any  gardening  work  done,  I  made  beds 
for  vegetables  In  the  old-fashioned  way,  about  four 
feet  wide  and  twelve  feet  long,  thus  making  many 
walks,  which  required  much  labor  to  keep  clean,  es¬ 
pecially  when  purslane  appeared  in  the  late  summer. 
I  worked  early  and  late  to  keep  down  the  weeds,  but 
managed  to  have,  comparatively  speaking,  a  clean 
garden. 
I  had  to  hire  the  hoeing  done  for  the  corn  and  pota¬ 
toes,  so  thick  were  the  grass  and  weeds,  and  I  had 
much  difficulty  in  getting  a  man  who  would  do  an 
honest  day’s  work,  as  well  as  in  getting  him  to  work 
thoroughly.  But  I  came  out  better  than  my  neigh¬ 
bors  had  predicted,  besides  having  learned  many 
valuable  lessons. 
The  next  spring  In  a  determined  effort  to  subdue 
the  Quack  Grass  I  plowed  and  harrowed  thoroughly, 
then  went  over  with  a  horse  rake  and  hauled  the 
stuff  off  by  the  cart-load  and  this  labor  paid  very 
largely.  X  sowed  mangolds  and  carrots  In  addition 
to  the  corn,  potatoes  and  pumpkins.  In  the  garden  I 
abandoned  the  beds,  cultivated  in  long  rows  and 
added  a  Dutch  hoe,  digging  fork  and  hand  weeder  to 
my  tools.  I  planted  my  potatoes  on  The  Rural 
plan  in  shallow  trenches,  putting  in  a  good  compost, 
covering  lightly,  planted  the  sets  and  covered  them 
up,  leaving  the  ground  level  all  summer. 
Having  determined  to  pay  special  attention  to 
tomatoes  and  celery,  I  had  started  them  in  the  house 
and  kept  them  transplanted,  using  the  last  time 
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