1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
687 
Various, 
A JERSEYMAN’S JOTTINGS. 
1 MAKE my city-farmer neighbors quite 
useful in the way of experiment work. 
They don’t believe in the slow ways we Jer- 
seymen have inherited. They are after all 
the new machines and methods. I watch 
their trials and often gain a good point 
from their experience. The latest thing in 
this line relates to anew churn. For a great 
many years our folks have used the old- 
style dash churn. I have read a great deal 
about the advantages of a churn without 
any dash but our folks were used to the 
dash chum and would not listen to any 
argument against it. That is the spirit that 
has made New Jersey famous. My neigh¬ 
bor bought a fine cow last year. As a 
part of the bargain he got a stone churn 
with a wooden dash. That is the only kind 
of churn used in our neighborhood, and all 
the dairy-wives to whom my neighbor’s 
wife went for information, were sure that 
the new-style churns were poor things. 
Your city farmer is a great reader of the 
agricultural papers. Of course my neigh¬ 
bor read all about the new churns and 
wanted to try them, but everybody told his 
wife the dash churn could not be beaten 
and so he had to give up his experiment. 
At last his hour came. Somebody dropped 
that stone churn on the door-step and 
on the cover and started the handle. I 
never heard quite such a splashing as the 
cream made inside that churn. There are 
so many comers and angles about it 
that the beating about was something tre¬ 
mendous. The work was very easy. I can 
fit a treadle on the handle so that a person 
can sit and read and make the churn go 
with the foot. I do not hesitate to say that 
my examination of the Rectangular Churn 
convinces me that our folks have all been 
wrong in sticking to the dash. I am satis¬ 
fied that this new churn makes more butter 
—that is, you save more of it—with less 
work than our old churns ever did. The 
cost of the new churn is considerably more 
than that of the old one, but you will 
probably more than get the difference back 
before the churn gives out. How the 
Rectangular compares with other barrel or 
box churns I do not know. I should 
think it would give the cream more of a 
shaking up than any of the others owing to 
its special shape. This very shape makes 
it very easy to clean. I don’t much like the 
way the cover is made to fasten on. It 
strikes me the fastenings will soon wear out ' 
and cause the churn to leak. There is danger 
too of using the little cork plugs. They 
should be larger and fastened to the chum 
by strings or little chains. It would be a 
good thing also to have a little glass door 
or window in the churn so that the cliurnr 
er could watck.the cream and know better 
when to stop. There seems to be a differ¬ 
ent sound inside the churn when the but- 
from Powell & Clement, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
We find in this catalogue a fine list of guns, 
pistols, knives and sporting goods. It is 
hard to conceive of anything in this line 
that is not described here. 
A New Corn Product.— The R. N.-Y. 
has had considerable to say about the great 
waste of labor spent in husking the coun¬ 
try’s corn crop. Another point that has 
been dwelt upon is the waste of the com 
fodder—the stalks of the corn plant. Now 
comes a machine, the Keystone Corn- 
Husker and Fodder-Cutter, that promises to 
go a long ways toward putting a stop to 
these wastes. By its means we may ex¬ 
pect to make hand-husking of corn about 
as profitless as hand-thrashing of grain. 
The stalks are so cut and crushed that the 
product may be baled and sold to be used 
as fodder or as an absorbent. We show, at 
Figure 255, a scene on the farm of Gale 
Brothers, of Galesburg, Ill. The building is 
a shed, 22 feet high, 30 feet wide and 80 feet 
long, and is filled with the fodder as it 
came from the husking machine—which is 
shown at the right of the picture. The 
wagon at the center is filled with husked 
corn. The fodder, as packed in the shed, 
occupies about one-fourth the space needed 
before it was cut up. Last year the Messrs. 
Gale put up the fodder from 123 acres of 
corn, and this year expect to put up 
400 acres. After the fodder had heated in 
the pile part was baled with two strands of 
wire, the same as hay in a Dederick Hay 
Press. The R. N.-Y. believes that this 
A WESTERN BARN FILLED WITH CRUSHED CORN-FODDER. Fig. 255. 
ter begins “to come.’’ I suppose that a 
man with good ears can study this differ¬ 
ence in sound so that he can make it his 
guide in stopping the churn. A deaf man, 
however, cannot detect this difference and 
the consequence is that he must keep tak¬ 
ing off the cover or run the risk of over- 
churning. JERSEYMAN. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
1 aled product will find its way to the 
markets in due time and by its sale open a 
new source of revenue for corn farmers. 
The subject is an interesting one. Those 
who wish to investigate it further should 
send to the Keystone Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany of Sterling, 111., for an illustrated 
catalogue. 
3ni)ust'l Son ft it's. 
broke it. If it had been made of wood we 
should never have had our experiment. 
Now the point was to get a new churn. 
“Frank’s Wonder Machine” was first 
tried. This promised to take all the butter 
out of sweet milk and leave the residue 
about as good as it was before. No pans, 
skimmers or cream pails would be needed. 
This machine did make butter in about 
five minutes from whole milk. The butter 
did not suit, however; it was soft and very 
light-colored. The “ wonder machine ” did 
not seem to make as much butter as was 
obtained in the old way. Then my neigh¬ 
bor bought a toy called “ Haul’s Butter 
Machine.” This was an arrangement of 
cogs and wheels that shook a Mason’s jar 
filled with cream to and fro. It made but 
ter, after a fashion, but it gave such a clat¬ 
ter and bang that it nearly made the folks 
sick. Then some economist wrote an arti¬ 
cle for the paper telling how the ice-cream 
freezer was used as a churn. According to 
his statement a churn was never needed in 
a family that boasted an ice-cream freezer. 
So our friends tried that. After turning 
the handle nearly two hours a sticky, light- 
colored mass formed that had to pass mus¬ 
ter as butter. Then the wife made a de¬ 
mand for another dash churn—a wooden 
one this time—but the man of the house 
was determined to try a churn without any ' 
dash or float. So he bought a Rectangular 
Churn. 
It was about the most awkward-looking 
thing I ever saw—just a large box litted on 
standards so it will turn over “ corner- 
ways.” I went over to see the thing work. 
We poured the cream into it—adding a 
little milk to make the mixture thin—fitted 
P ATCH’S CORN -SHELLER.—Cata¬ 
logue from A. S. Patch, Clarksville, 
Tenn. This pamphlet contains letters 
from those who have used the “Black 
Hawk” Sheller. If we may believe what 
they say this sheller is a wonderful affair. 
The Art of Dressing.— This is the sub¬ 
ject of a little volume sent out by O. S. 
Chaffee & Son, Mansfield Center, Conn., 
and with the information will be sent sam¬ 
ples of the black silks and satins which this 
well-established firm has for sale at rea¬ 
sonable prices. Our lady readers who de¬ 
sire to dress with good taste and judgment, 
will want to see these samples. 
The Pruyn Potato-Digger.— Catalogue 
from the Pruyn Potato-Digger Company, 
Hoosick Falls, N. Y. One great point of 
superiority claimed for this digger is its 
light draft. It raises but little earth and 
gets rid of it easier than other large dig¬ 
gers. In fact, there are many things about 
the Pruyn Digger that commend it to 
the thoughtful consideration of farmers. 
Send for this circular and see what the.dig¬ 
ger looks like. 
Fire-arms, Cutlery, etc.—C atalogue 
DUTCHESS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY’S SHOW. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
THE 48th Annual Fair and Cattle Show 
of the Dutchess County Agricultural So¬ 
ciety was held at the Hudson River Driving 
Park, Poughkeepsie, from the 24th to the 
27th of September. A new main building 
and a number of new cattle sheds have 
materially increased the attractiveness of 
the fair. The larger part of the room in t he 
main building, however, was taken up by 
local merchants, leaving comparatively lit¬ 
tle room for fruits and vegetables. Imple¬ 
ments were shown in tents adjoining the 
main building. Adrianee, Platt A Co. 
showed their new harvesting machine in 
operation. It is certainly a wonderful im¬ 
provement on older and more cumbersome 
reapers and harvesters, and will, doubtless, 
have a very large sale. The cattle sheds 
were well filled. The well-known herd of 
Guernseys owned by Vice-President Mor¬ 
ton attracted much attention. J. B. Dutch- 
er & Son showed some very fine Holstein- 
Friesians. The sheep and swine pens had 
but few visitors, although many fine speci¬ 
mens of the newer breeds were shown. The 
poultry building was dark and crowded, 
the ventilation was bad, and altogether it 
was an unattractive place even to the poul¬ 
try fancier. 
On the whole, the Dutchess County Fair 
comes far short of the place claimed for it 
by its managers. It lacks very much of be¬ 
ing the largest and best county fair in the 
State. In fact, if the horse racing, balloon 
ascensions and side-shows were done away, 
there would be but little left save an exhibit 
of local merchants for advertising purposes. 
Notwithstanding the bad weather, the at¬ 
tendance was very large and there is no 
reason why the fair, with judicious man¬ 
agement, should not attract a much greater 
number of implement dealers, fruit grow¬ 
ers and other exhibitors who make a fair of 
interest and value to the agriculturist. 
J. H. G. 
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