FES. 44 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
tage I gain. Of course, the more money one 
pays the better slippers he gets, but a very 
good pair of carpet slippers, (which may 
easily last a year) cun now be bought for 
fifty cents. They usually give out around 
the heel first. To prevent that I take them 
when new'and with course needle and strong 
linen thread sew the binding on more firmly, 
darning back and forth through doth and 
binding with many hidden stitches so that 
they are not easily pulled apart. One jolly 
young follow who came to us from the back 
woods at first laughingly protested against 
slippers, saying. “They made him feel so 
green, such women’s fixin’s on his feet.” but 
he soon voluntarily confessed to a great liking 
for them. “ They felt so comfortable after 
wearing hard boots all day," and he learned 
to consider a pair of slippers as necessary a 
part of his wardrobe as a coat or hat. That 
he already had a slight tint of Nature’s de¬ 
spised color I noticed from his inquisitive 
glances at the bright-colored dressing gown 
he ha pened to see “the head" wearing the 
first day he was here, and the confidential, earn¬ 
est question to one of the family ; “What a 
queer-lookin’ best coat the boss has. Does he 
wear it to meetiu’ ?’’ 
Washing the Butter bowl, 
I saw an old house-keeper smile incredu¬ 
lously when she read H. Stewart’s directions 
for cleansing butter bow Is, and i fully agreed 
that by the tinp*‘ it had been merely “rinsed 
out with cold and then with boiling water, 
never drying it in the sunshine” it would be 
anything but a help towards making sweet 
butter. There is hardly another utensil em¬ 
ployed in butter making that is so important 
to have sweet and thoroughly free from any 
frowy taint as the butter-bowl. There is no 
danger from having it ton clean, while there 
is much danger the other way. I would tell 
one first to wash and rub it hard with a doth 
iu hot suds. If the grease stains around the 
edge are slightly obstinate, take a little fine, 
white sand and rub with Mint, the sand will 
make it very smooth and nice, then wash 
with clear hot water, being careful to remove 
every particle of snnd, finally scald with 
plenty of boiling water, and if you can re¬ 
member it and not leave it too long, a few 
minutes in a hot sun will give it another 
touch of sweetness and whiteness, but you 
“ bear it in mind” and watch. 
milk and thence to the butter. Of course, 
this taint makes the butter unmarketable, 
and the merchants will not purchase what 
they call “ leeky butter.” Rut the dairy 
woman thinks she cannot afford to lose the 
price of 50 or 100 pounds of butter, so she 
works it up into rolls, packs It away in good, 
strong brine, and keeps it till mid Summer or 
Fall, and then takes It, to market; by this time 
the taste and smell of the leeks are gone from 
the outside of the rolls. Her name is not on 
the butter and very likely she sells to some 
stranger in the city and no one knows who 
sold “ leeky butter;” but if she chance to sell 
a roll to her neighbors they will accuse ter of 
wrapping up “miserable Spring butter” in 
a thin layer of that made jhol recently. 
In leek time I always heat the milk in shal¬ 
low pans as soon as possible after straining 
till it beglus “ to shimmer,” then put it away 
and wdien l he cream is ready to be churned I 
put into it nearly Or quite half a teaspoonful 
of powdered saltpeter to three gallons of 
cream and stir it thoroughly, some time be¬ 
fore churning that it may become well dis¬ 
solved. In this way I got rid of the disagree¬ 
able odor to a great extent; but I only make 
w'hat, is needed for our own talfie use unless I 
choose to put some of it down for shortening. 
The calves thrive nicely on the new milk and 
nothing is lost 
There is an old and beautiful adage which 
applies as well to butter-making as to any¬ 
thing else. ’ There is no excellence without 
labor.” Good butter requires labor, care and 
judgment. And yet there is no more interest¬ 
ing work on the farm to one that understands 
the business than attending the dairy, from 
milking the sweet-breathed, sleepy-eyed cows 
on a pleasant Summer morning, surrounded 
by the fragrance of flowers and d«w-be- 
gemmed grass, to the woildng over of the 
great masses of golden butter in the clean, 
cool pantry. 
Good butter also requires that the cows 
have good, sweet food, pure water and clean 
udders from which to draw the milk. It does 
not tolerate filth of any kind. 
learned that this back-aching process could be 
avoided. Suppose the curtains washed and 
dried: choose a still day, starch them and pin 
them on the line, putting the clothes-pins not 
more than three or four inches apart, and keep 
straightening ’hem until dry, heing careful to 
pull out the edges. They will dry in a few 
minutes. Two can work to better advantage 
than one. j. b. r. 
AND GRAZING LANDS ARe FOUND ON 
the Northern Pacific r. r. 
in MINNESOTA, DAKOTA, 
and MONTANA. 
BIG CROP AGAIN IN 1881 
EXTRACT FROM PRIVATE LETTER. 
“ I did laugh, when I read the Rural New- 
Yorker of January 7, to find that “ Farmer- 
ine” could not find enough plain cooking in 
the Domestic Department; and I had thought 
that every subject had been pretty well ex¬ 
hausted by the various contributors. I finally 
concluded that “ Farmerine ” had not read 
the Rural New-Yorker as many years as 
some of us, or she certainly might have learn¬ 
ed to cook the plainest food, as well as the 
most elaborate. But it seems impossible for 
all to be suited; and it is better that tl e read 
ers know it, for then they can make a greater 
effort for improvement. M. K. a.” 
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Answer to Mrs, 8. T. I prefer to par¬ 
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hour or two, and then work into a roll or 
pack it. It is less likely to be “streaked,” 
aud the salt seems to be more evenly distrib¬ 
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Treatment of “ Leeky ” Butter. 
First class dairymen all declare that but¬ 
ter is easily tainted by disagreeable odors; 
and hundreds of articles have been written 
upon this subjovt, 1 believe, for Lhe Rural 
New Yorker alone; but of what avail are 
ably written articles if they are never read 
by those who might put the scientific theory 
to a practical test There are many house¬ 
wives who see the Rural lying upon the 
table year after year, who never think of 
reading any article not found in the literary 
or woman’s department. Hence these less 
elaborate sketohe.-. 
Mrs. R-bad all the conveniences for 
making first-class butter: a nice, large milk- 
room on the north side of the house, cool and 
airy, which was kept fastidiously clean. 8he 
was excessively neat, about, all her household 
arrangements and no pains were spared in 
caring for I he milk and cream. But she 
made cheese—and no one in all the country 
round could make richer and better—and the 
milk-room held the cheese safe; the cream par¬ 
took so much of the odor of the cheese us to 
entirely spoil the nice, sweet tlavor of the 
butter. 
A few years ago I had occasion to purchase 
butter from the neighboring farmers. Oneo I 
purchased from a young housekeeper who 
was striving to out-do her neighbors in the 
domestic depai tment, and her butter was not 
an exception to the general rule. Every par¬ 
ticle of moisture was worked out of that but¬ 
ter ball; the grain was entirely destroyed and 
the delicious flavor that clover butter should 
possess, under ordinary circumstances, was 
utterly destroyed, Only a very solid mass of 
grease, lit only for the shortening jar, was 
left. 
Again, I purchased of another farmer’s 
wife what I knew to be a first-class article. 
The butter was laid iu a hasket nicely 
wrapped in a clean napkin; and into the same 
basket was put some lard. Immediately 
upon reaching home boili articles were re 
moved; the lard was taken to the pantry, but 
the butter was carried to a cool and well- 
ventilated cellar. Rut 1 found at dinner¬ 
time that my choice butter was choice ouly in 
appearance; it was iHrd in taste, and thus it. 
was ruined for the table. 
In many localities the cows find, in the 
early Spring, the fresh green leeks, which 
they devour voraciously for a few days or 
till green herbage gets a good start, imme¬ 
diately the strong odor is conveyed to the 
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