£hurn flusbanbrj). 
X. A. WILLARD, A. it., EDITOR, 
Or Littlk I'ALiMt IImikim** County, Niw York. 
DELIVERING MILK AT FACTORIES. 
The Boston Cultivator, in copying from 
the Rural New-Yobker an article on “ De¬ 
livery of Milk at Factories,” (see Rural., 
June 14,) makes the following comments 
and inquiries: 
We enny t ho above, on a very Important, prac¬ 
tical and inton.stinir subject to every dairyman 
who carries bis milk to a cheese factory, fromX. 
A. U'n.uiit), in UtrnAt. Nkw-Yoiikkh. InMas- 
sachnsctts.80 far ns wcknuwand tin eobserved, 
milk Is delivered at factories but once a day. ana 
tlmt in the morntrnr. 'Ye would a$k friend Wiv 
caud wliut lie means by “coollmr milk as soon 
as drawn froin the cows, before it is put In the 
cans for the factory?” Farmers lti Worcester 
county strain their eveniiiK mess into cans And 
put them into water to oo»l; how to cool before 
this is our query- Again it is said that “milk 
J mt warm into • he cans is linbln to taint, and In¬ 
ure the flavor of the cheese.” Is mu i ids evil 
noldeni to tin* uiorulnR mens, carried with the 
OVCning, provided it, is not cooled? Then what 
ho says Oi the cream, separated by t he cooling 
process, going into the choe«e. woflonbt, from 
what we nave m>cii ot it floating on the whey; 
also, jml.oujf from the atnouut of butter made 
from who>. as si a tod by some reporter. We 
doubt whether tho cream separated from the 
milk goes Into the curd to any considerable ex¬ 
tent ; we bnVe long been of the opinion that it 
might be. lor I"' taken oil', than suffered to runoff 
in (ho whey. Tint art of making cheese of whole 
milk, in it- best possible condition, seems not to 
be understood; It' so.lt Is not generally prac¬ 
tised, say cheesemongers. 
I. I 11 the cheese dairying districts of New 
York, the practice is to strain the milk as 
soon as drawn, into the carrying cans, and 
haul it while warm to the factory. The cans 
having a tight-fitting cover which is forced 
down upon the warm milk, there is no 
chance for offensive odors to pass off, and 
the milk being mossed together in consider¬ 
able quantity, il, rapidly decomposes, espe¬ 
cially in hot weather. Now milk treated in 
tins way often arrives at the factory in a 
tainted or putrid condition. 
To remedy this defect, we suggested some 
years ago that an apparatus was needed by 
which the milk, as soon as drawn, could lie 
exposed to the air, and at the, same time 
cooled or divested of its animal heat. Then 
it could be safely put in tho cans and hauled 
to the factory. A large number of devices 
have been invented to meet this want, and 
several of them are very efficient . The milk¬ 
ers carry the milk as fast as il is drawn to 
the cooler, where it is divested of its animal 
beat and falls into the can—or the cooler is 
placed in the can, cooling the milk as fast ns 
drawn, so that when the milking is finished, 
there need be no delay in hauling the milk 
to the factory, and in having it all properly 
cooled before starting from the farm. These 
appliances are not in general use, but should 
be, to correct the evil complained of. 
II. The evil referred to extends now to 
both morning and evening milk; but the 
evening’s milk is improved alter it arrives 
at the factory from being spread out in the 
vats and from being stirred and thoroughly 
cooled and kept cool during the night. But 
there is no time to treat the morning’s milk 
in this manner at tho factory, because 1 ho 
cheese making must commence so soon as 
the milk is delivered, and so the tainted 
milk is immediately turned into curd and 
carries its taint, to the cheese. The morn¬ 
ing's and evening’s milk are not. put in the 
can together, as above suggested by the Cul¬ 
tivator. 
III. There is no doubt that cream once 
separated from tho milk cannot be readily 
incorporated again in if, so ns to be all re¬ 
tained in the curds. Still, a very careful 
and nice manipulation may secure the better 
part, as is abundantly shown in the Stilton 
manufacture, where an extra quantity of 
cream is added to the milk. The plan now 
adopted at Ihc factories of stirring the milk 
during the night by means of an agitator 
worked by the waste water of the vats, is 
very efficient in keeping the cream from 
rising and separating from the milk. We 
agree with friend WetiiereL that tho 
cream “ better be taken off than suffered to 
run off in the whey,” and have often so ad¬ 
vised. Manufacturers notv have various 
ways of avoiding loss on account of the 
years past of factories refusing to pay for 
the right, and although they have been 
threatened with prosecution, we have never 
yet heard of a single suit having been 
brought to force payment. And moreover, 
we do not believe that these men care to test 
their claims in the courts. But whether tho 
claim of a patent be valid or not, we desire 
to expose the falsehood, that dairymen and 
factories may not be deceived in the matter. 
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BUTTER MAKING. 
BY MRS. S. 0. JOHNSON. 
Practical Hints on Making and Preserving 
Batter. 
The process of making butter commences 
at the milking. If the milker’s bands and 
the cow’s bag are unclean, your butter is 
spoiled before the milk is strained. Clean¬ 
liness is most surely essential to success in 
butter making, from its commencement 
until it is served on the table. One-half of 
the butter which is brought to market is 
ruined for lack of this grent virtue. Badly 
washed milk pails, pans and cream jars arc 
fatal to good butter making. When these 
utensils are washed, it is not well to turn 
boiling water upon them at first, but scrub 
the tins with a soft cloth in warm suds, keep¬ 
ing one especially fur the purpose, never 
using a cloth that has washed any other 
dishes, and then scald with rinsing water. 
It is well to place a large kettle of water 
on the stove, and when boiling dip in 
the pans, pails and jars. The boiling, if ap¬ 
plied at first, cooks the drops of milk or 
cream, but the warm suds dissolve them. 
If the seams in the pans and pails are not 
attended to and well scrubbed, they will 
soon become foul; on that account t he seam¬ 
less pans or yellow nappies arc much more 
ily, but it does improve the sweetness and 
purity of the butter. Small stone jars are 
preferable to large ones. They can be kept 
in the ice-house when filled, and if one 
skimming filled a jar, we should think it 
better to use a small one. 
When the jar is cleaned, a tablespoonful 
of salcratus is added to the warm suds, and 
still, however, the green color of the stone 
deepened gradually, as if it bad been ab¬ 
sorbing a liquid; in ten minutes it was fairly 
saturated with moisture, when Bu t, asked 
for a bowl of old milk, and began to wash 
the stone in il,—the patient feeling very con¬ 
siderably relieved. The Stone was porous, 
and clung to the flesh like a leather sucker, 
sweetens it perfectly. A cheesy smell about J such as boys use attached to a string, with 
milk utensils Is utterly fatal to sweet butter. 
A rancid smell u abhorrent !—[Concluded 
next week. 
girntific anh ttsrful. 
THE MAD STONE: 
A 11 11 liter’s Story ot its Cure of a Rat¬ 
tlesnake Bite. 
BY JANUARY SICA RLE. 
When I first went into the West I lived 
on a fine farm of my own in the heart of the 
Wisconsin hunting grounds. One day a 
young friend —a boy about seventeen years 
which to pull up large rocks. 
As soon as the stone was freed from its 
impurities, it was put to it again; and no 
leech could have clone its work belter. It 
sucked away like a regular seasoned old 
malt-worm, and drew all the poison out of 
the blood, along with a good deal of blood 
also. In halt an hour the wound was 
healed, the inflammation and the swelling 
had gone down, and there were no more bad 
symptoms. 
I tried to buy the stone when I came away, 
but Bill wouldn’t sell it for the Captain’s 
homestead, be said, where be lived. Nor 
could I make out to what formation of rocks 
it belonged. 
That nature contains, in some one or other 
of her dumb creatures, of plants, or rocks, 
fengumr 
ONIONS FOR DROPSY. 
A correspondent of an English maga¬ 
zine, writing on the medical properties of 
the onion, tells bow a Parisian lawyer cured 
a desperate case of dropsy, as follows: 
“ Having peeled asufficient quantity of white 
onions, he filled with them a pipkin or coarse 
earthen mug, holding about three pints. 
Having put in as many onions as the vessel 
would contain,lie filled ibis with cold water, 
covered il and set it in the midst of the warm 
embers, where the water would simmer with 
very little ebullition. Ue let the onions slew 
until they were reduced to a pap, and the 
water to half its original quantity—a pro¬ 
cess which required three or four hours, as 
the vessel was kept closely covered and the 
fire slow. lie strained the liquor through a 
linen bag, carefully expressing every drop 
of juice from the pulp. Having extracted 
tlic liquor, be carefully weighed it, and then, 
gently over the fire, but without boiling, 
old accompanied me™ a MlnUng exenr- thespecific for every disease that extols, I ■, Vlil, ownVd^lor« 
sion, and one of my dogs, an old retriever, 
was an awful enemy to snakes; especially 
to rattlesnakes. The whirr of these “crit¬ 
ters” rings seemed to madden him, and I 
never knew him to leave one of them with¬ 
out making a corpse of him. 
On this occasion, as we were crossing one 
of the home fields, the old dog stopped sud¬ 
denly against a heap of faggots and dry 
grass, and began to bark furiously. At first 
I thought lie had got a rabbit, or some other 
like vermin; but as we drew nearer we saw, 
make no manner of doubt. All nature waits 
on man, if lie did but know how and where 
to find bis servants; just as nature represents 
the thoughts, feelings, emotions and passions 
of the mind, as well as the physical organ¬ 
ism ; represents and confirms them by her 
loving illustrations. 
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TABLE OF LEGAL WEIGHTS. 
We find the following table of legal 
weights of a bushel of the articles enumer- 
7 !™ ,mu aucou,u at one comer of (lie rubbish heap, the tall below, in the Slates named, in thelnte- 
clrtiMhic °7Y ,?p i! 1 ?!, a,c nu,ch more „ sleek body of a rattlesnake, standing up dis- rior * So far as we have the means at band 
, 1 ' . c ". l< -‘ 1,8 tbat oue < - lr °P of tiucl and dark against the sky, on the tip of t0 compare them, they prove correct, and 
r ft nn 7 k T, < * U “ ,7' llis *«. sl.ootiug fire from bis infe nal the table will be found useful, 
mentation ol the whole mass—a rather _ _... ... __ 
doubtful statement, but we should prefer the 
milk without the drop. In summer the pans 
should always he aired in the sun until about 
four o’clock, P. M. Ill winter they must be 
dried near the stove. 
The milk should be allowed to stand ten 
minutes after it is brought to the dairy, so 
the froth limy settle; and each pan should 
he filled from two to two and a-lialf inches 
in depth. Why? Because the given quan¬ 
tity of cream in that amount of milk rises 
quicker t han if the depth were from three to 
four inches, and it collects before it sours. 
This has been learned by the experience of 
years. 
It is very desirable that the milk-room 
should be placed in the coolest, situation in 
smntner. The shelves should be made of 
narrow slats, an inch or two apart, to admit 
the air. They must he, If in the cellar, so 
high that no rats, mice or cuts can approach 
them; and if copperas is thrown about the 
floor, and in the corners of the room, the two 
former will not trouble you, as it is disagree¬ 
able to them, besides, it purifies tho air of 
the room, acting as a disinfectant, and a rat 
protector. A good draft through the milk- 
room is to be desired 
Skim in inu tlio Cream. 
Thirty-six hours in summer and forty- 
eight in winter is the proper time to allow 
the milk to stand before skimming. It is 
better to take off the cream before the milk 
loppers. Many good butter makers will 
dispute this rule, hut repeated experiments 
have proved that more butter, and of a better 
quality, is obtained from cream separated 
from the milk just as the lactic acid has do- 
eyes, and angrily darting his tongue out of 
his evil jaws every second. I called the 
dog off, fearing lest he should get bitten by 
the snake, who stood there “ curled up like 
a cork screw,” and evidently “ meaning 
venom.” As the dog was very much ex¬ 
cited, according to Ids wont over such mat¬ 
ters, I was about to put the couples on him 
and run him off with one of my beautiful 
lemon and white setters, when the boy said, 
“Hold on, I’ll soon kill him, if I can but get 
Hold of a stick.” 
I remonstrated with him, and would fain 
have shot the snake at once and ended the 
row, but, be was headstrong and wanted the 
fun. So he got It. 173 went deliberately up 
to tho reptile within the length of bis stick, 
perhaps a yard long, and began to plague 
him by poking the end in his mouth. This 
got him “ awful mad,” and be leaped at. bis 
persecutor, meaning to dart that forked, 
[ fiery tongue into his flesh, and so get him¬ 
self revenged. But lie fell short, and as the 
lad sprang back he trod upon the slut setter, 
and trying to get from her he unconsciously 
and most woftdly got into the range of the 
snake, which hissed and rattled, and finally 
(all done in a second, as it were,) the beast 
bit him. 
I shall never forget his face the longest 
day I live. The Pallida mors of Virgil 
was just the color of it. I up gun and shot 
the snake in a moment, and then looked at 
his hand. Two tiny punctures were there, 
and no more ; but. now what was to be done? 
“ My boy,” said I, “ lot’s hurry home; I am 
ARTICLES. 
Barley. 
Bran. 
Broom Corn Seed. 
Buckwheat. 
Cantor Bruns. 
Charcoal. 
Coke.. 
Corn, elicited. 
Corn, m ear’.. 
1 Corn Meal.. . 
Dried Apples. 
Dried IVin-tiPs. 
Dried Benches, pared... 
Flux Seed.. 
Grass seed, blue. 
Clover. 
llunKuriari.. 
Millet. 
Orchard. 
lied |.,p. 
Timothy, . 
ltenip seed... 
t.ime, uuMiiiicd. 
Malt... 
Oats... 
Onions...,.. 
Onions, top. 
Osage Orange Seed. 
I’nat>. 
mastering Hair. 
Potatoes, Jrisli. 
Potatoes, sweet. 
Rye. 
suit, coarse. 
San, line. 
Wheat... 
Turnips. 
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’68 i>ld, and 70 new, in Ohio. 
USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 
To Prevent Sunstroke. 
It is recommended to sew a thin piece of 
sponge in the top of the bat and moisten it 
with water occasionally in the course of 
the clay. 
For a Cement for Aquariums. 
The Boston Journal of Chemistry recom- 
brown sugar. Of this syrup ho gave his 
patient, two tablespoon fills every two hours, 
a fresh quantity being made, so as to keep 
up a constant supply. In a (lay or two the 
lady felt better, and in about six weeks, 
during which time we remained at the cha¬ 
teau as guests, she was able to walk with us 
about the grounds. We bad occasion to 
visit our kind host about six months after 
our former visit, and found bis lady enjoy¬ 
ing excellent health, and valuing her cousin’s 
onion sirup as a sped fie for all the complaints 
' that flesh is heir to.’ ” 
--. 
FOOD MEDICINES. 
Dr. Hall relates the case of a man who 
was cured of biliousness by going without 
his supper and drinking freely of lemonade. 
Every morning, says the doctor, “ This pa¬ 
tient. row with a wonderful sense of rest, re¬ 
freshment, and a feeling as though the blood 
bad been literally washed, cleansed and 
cooled by the lemonade and the fast.” His 
Ihcory is that food will be used as a remedy 
for many diseases successfully. For ex¬ 
ample, he instances cures of spitting blood 
by I lie use of salt; epilepsy and yellow fever, 
watermelons; kidhey affections, celery; poi¬ 
son, olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, pounded 
cranberries applied to the parts affected; 
hydrophobia, onions, &c. Bo the thing to 
do in order to keep in good health, is really 
to know what to eat, and not what medicines 
to take.” 
-- 
HEALTH NOTES. 
Apple* for Ilcnlth. 
A PiivsrciAN says wlial we have proved 
to be true“ Apples, if eaten at breakfast, 
with coarse bread and butter, without meat 
or flesh, remove constipation, correct acidi¬ 
ties, and cool off febrile conditions more ef¬ 
fectually than the most approved medicines.” 
Fruit in Living Rooms. 
The Good Health says:—“ We should be 
chary of keeping ripe fruit in our sitting 
rooms, and especially beware of laying it 
about a sick chamber for any length of lime. 
Thai complaint which some people make 
about a faint sensation in the presence of 
afraid this wound is mortal; but keep your mends a mixture of equal parts of dry white fruit is not fanciful; they may be really 
heail up, ami there may be hope. We lead and red lead mixed into a paste with affected by it.” 
ve loped itselt, and before the milk has be* gathered some leaves of a plant called by 
___ . 1 m 1 1 . .. ^ 
..1.1,1 mi.iv, in.ij 1 ji; jjupw. ou mao ai hi rea mail 1111X00 into a paste wi 
tin tied back instantly, and on the way 1 mastic varnish, and used as soon as made. 
come thick. Though the cream seems thick¬ 
er after fermentation has taken place, it, does 
not possess so much richness. From agiven 
quantity of milk—one skimmed just after it 
soured, the other when lop pored — two 
pounds more of butter were made from the 
former method, giving quite a gain to the 
purse, though it may entail a little more 
trouble upon the dairymaid. “ Eternal Vig¬ 
ilance” applies to butter making. It also 
requires intelligence; some brains are essen¬ 
tial. One must exercise judgment In the 
matter. If the day has been chilly, the milk 
tho country folks “ rattle snake plant;” this 
1 chewed at my own risk and made into a 
poultice and applied it to the wound. It 
had already begun to look inflamed and 
angry, and lie felt scintillations of pain, like 
the stings of sudden electric shocks, all up 
the arm. When we got inside the house I 
poured a half pint of whisky, made on the 
farm, into a lmsin and made him drink it as 
fast as he could. In the meantime Crooked 
Bob. an ancient servant of the place, whom 
I found on the estate and bought with it, as 
I used to tell him, ran out of doors the mo- 
separation of the cream; but when patrons can set twelve hours longer; if a thunder meat he heard what was up, and was seen 
deliver to them tainted milk, the trouble be- shower approaches, skim il at an earlier hour, trudging down the croft to a neighbor’s 
comes more serious. 
To Keep ilip Cream. 
hunting box—a large log cabin—kept by 
Stone jars are sweeter for cream, in our Wiluam Sykes, bis dam and his frow. 
THE CHEESE RACK AND TURNER, estimation, than tin ones. When the first William was at the house long before 
We are informed that there are men going 
about the country trying to make dairvmen 
and factories pay for using the old “ cheese 
rack and turner.” They claim that, it is a 
patented device, and in order to better ac¬ 
complish that object, they make the state¬ 
ment that suit lias been brought against us 
for using die device, and that, on our becom¬ 
ing satisfied of the validity of the patent, 
&c., we had settled with the patentee or his 
agent for the right, and are now using it. 
All this is a tissue of falsehood. We have 
never used the cheese rack or turner, bnve 
never proposed to use it, an 1 have had no 
dealings whatever with the pretended pat¬ 
entee or his agents. 
We know nothing of the validity of this 
claim, but we have heard for two or three 
skimming of cream is deposited, add one Crooked Bob, as he had nimbler legs; and 
tablespoonful of salt and one heaping tea- 
spoonful of saltpeter. At every fresh skim¬ 
ming, mix the whole contents of the jar 
thoroughly, taking care that no particles shall 
collect around the edges. A clean cloth 
should be used every morning to wipe the 
inside perfectly dry down to the cream. 
Half of the cream is spoiled before it is 
made into butler by neglecting this precau¬ 
tion. The saltpeter prevents any tendency 
to mold or bitterness. We consulted the 
highest chemical authority in the State as to 
its properties, and were assured that, a tea¬ 
spoonful in six quarts of cream could not be 
in the least degree injurious. It makes no 
as he rushed in at the open door he exclaim¬ 
ed :—“Here it is, Master Geordie! Just 
put it against the wound, and we will see a 
sight!” 
“ What is the matter ?” said I, rather ir¬ 
ritably, I fear. 
“ It is the Mad Stone, Master Geordie,” 
lie replied. “ Bless us! didn’t ye never hear 
of Bill Sykes’ Mad Slone?” 
I said nothing, but took it from his hand 
a stone as large as an orange, only square 
and smooth, and of a light green color. It 
had not been in contact with the flesh more 
than two minutes, during which time I held 
it iu my hand, when I felt a tingling sensa- 
XVliiicwasIi that Will Not Rub Oil; 
Wk find the following recommended: 
Mix up half a pailful of lime and water ; take 
half a pint of flour and make a starch of it, 
and pour it into the whitewash while hot. 
Stir it well, and make it ready for use. 
Ink.Siaiii!) on Miilioaany 
it is asserted can be taken out by putting a 
few drops of spirits of niter in a teaapoonful 
of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped 
in the mixture; on the ink disappearing, 
rub it over immediately with a rag wetted 
in cold water, or there will be a white mark 
which will not lie easily effaced. 
To Keep Ice. 
Tire following mode is recommended: 
Make a double pocket of strong woolen 
cloth, no matter how coarse and faded it is. 
Have a space of two inches or so between 
Hie inner and outer pockets, and pack this 
space as kill as possible with feathers. You 
have no need to use geese feathers; hens’ 
feathers arc just as good. With a pocket 
thus constructed and kept closely tied at the 
mouth, a few pounds of ice may be kept a 
week. 
Teeth Blackened by Ten. 
A physician was consulted by a lady 
whoso teeth were discolored. Looking for 
the cause, it was traced to hoarding-house 
tea, which was kept from day to day in a 
tin vessel and heated up at meal times, with 
the addition of a fresh supply. The tin 
having worn off, left a surface of iron, and 
the infusion in cooling acted chemically on 
the iron, making a tanuate or gallate of iron. 
Remedy Tor Costiveness. 
Dn. Hall says:—“Costive bowels have 
an agreeable remedy in the free use of toma¬ 
toes at meals—their seeds acting in the way 
of white mustard or figs, by stimulating the 
coats of the bowels over which they pass in 
their whole state, to increased action. A 
remedy of equal efficiency, in the same di¬ 
rection, is cracked wheat—that is, common 
white wheat grains, broken into two or three 
pieces, and then boiled until it is as soft as 
rice, and eaten mainly at two meals of the 
day, with butter or molasses.” 
IWfnl and Scientific Inquiries.—A Greenville, 
Midi., correspondent asks some one to mil him 
how to make gas for expanding a balloon ; lie 
T*rj>. . .. ***■•**''» »» wvu x t* irti^iiiu; Jloil- ‘S'" 11 • 
difference m the taste of the buttermilk, lion of my arm, such as be complained of- 
wlnon is liQAfl f t \v iwnn,r . , . T 1 » to nil 
which is used for many culinary purposes also a numbness 
and diank by several members of the lam- vessels that wa 
widles to try experiments. - A Pori Onin«-<-. 
c rhi., correanonnent itskS some one to tell him it 
ft il is practicable to slop the leaks in u shingle 
root; of very easy pitch with gas tar and sand : 
0 or if (here Is any kinder prepared paper that 
. will be Cheap ami durable, and who imtfminc- 
fdres it,-— li. c. Nichols asks some one to furn- 
i- ish Imn a recipe for making purple or mauve 
.. ink. -C. AV„ Upper Sandusky. O., asks some one 
« fci ititi.fiit Itiivt if-it. •*- i i i . j 
f ; to inform h!in ^tiat material is best. ad«pred for vorv fine and repeated tit intervals o 
ess and tightness of the blood cisterns in which rain water will remain sort In V ' nn • 11 1 , . 0 
was most painful Stramrer tl,ose madCMir brick and water lime, ho says, the lour f’ ’'l 1 ' 1 vmed, eating and drinking 
nub most puiuiui. fyuangei water turns hard in a short time. mg else in the meanwhile. 
a pocket Summer C’onnilnlut*— Correctives, 
ied at the Nu’E frtiits and berries, slightly acid, will 
remove the ordinary diarrhoeas of early 
e Kept a summer. 
Common rice, parched brown like coffee, 
and then boiled and eaten in the ordinary 
ou'inlim wifhwft a»y other lood, is,with perfect 
lb-on ; he quietude of body, one of the most effective 
i oraiiyo. remedies for troublesome looseness of bowels. 
aVliintrl*o Some of the severest forms of that distress- 
!mi sand : ing ailment culled dysentery, tbat is, when 
a per that tlm bowels pass blood, with constant desire, 
''tn'iimn" V<’t vain efforts to stool, are sometimes cu¬ 
n' mauve drel.y cured by the patient eating :i heaping 
some one tablespoonful at a time, of raw beef, cut up 
npied for very flne, and repeated at intervals of four 
Vav« 'thP hours, until cured, eating and drinking noth- 
