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THH RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
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agement, paying careful attention to every slightest de¬ 
tail, cleanliness, punctuality, temperature, etc., we are 
able to make a uniform article of good butter the year 
round, and thus are enabled to keep the same customers 
all the time. In fact, one of them who lives in a large 
town at some distance, has continued a steady customer 
without intermission for eight years. 
As our dairy stock increased, and it became necessary 
to extend our butter engagements, some one advised send¬ 
ing a small sample to a certain hotel in a distant city. For 
some reason, however, the little bucket was not taken 
from the office, and the express agent took it home with 
him for his own use, and liked the butter so well that he 
wrote for more. Thus a permanent engagement was 
gained, and as the agent had been kind enough to recom¬ 
mend our butter to his relatives and friends, this fortui¬ 
tous accident has been the means of making many addi¬ 
tional engagements in that city, in winter the demand 
being usually greater than the supply. The butter is 
packed in tin buckets, varying in size according to the 
quantity of butter required, and shipped weekly. In sum¬ 
mer we try to persuade part of the customers to take it 
the first of the week, and others the last, so that all may 
have it fresh ; most all of them, however, prefer it in the 
latter part, but as we have always been so fortunate as to 
gather and keep a supply of ice, even during the present 
year when so many have been obliged to do without any, 
there has been no difficulty in keeping the butter sweet. 
The express trains, too, have offered 
great facilities for shipping in warm 
weather, the butter being put on in the 
evening, and reaching its destination 
either that night or early next morning. 
The price realized is 25 cents the year 
around, the consumer settling the expres- 
sage. Near the large Northern markets 
such an article of butter would bring 
nearly twice as much; but there land is 
higher and the expenses of labor greater 
in proportion, the cost of food also would 
be greater; while here in Kentucky there 
is often good grazing for the cattle all 
the j’ear around, and, besides this, every¬ 
thing fed to them is raised on the place. 
So, taking all things into consideration, 
there is considerable profit iu dairying 
in Kentucky, and especially is this true 
in our county, where there is a good 
market for surplus dairy cows as well 
as for the young stock. 
HORTENSE DUDLEY. 
Before it was ptlt into the pot the mixture could not be 
told from pure coffee, except under the microscope. After 
the lactoserine coffee was made, one could not tell from 
the taste but that he was drinking c afe-au-lait. I visited a 
dairy and saw the fresh milk heated to the same tempera¬ 
ture as when it was coming from the cow, flow into the 
separator, and from one tube came cream and from the 
other skim-milk at the same time. I have followed the 
cream to the butter. G. F. s. 
Lactoserine. 
(Translation.) 
“In recent times, or rather since the time the separator 
came into vogue, complaints have often been heard about 
the difficulty of properly using the surplus buttermilk. 
This problem seems now to have been solved to a certain 
extent, by a new discovery made by the Swedish engineer, 
Mr. W. Rehnstrom. He has by means of evaporation of 
the water in the buttermilk through certain processes, 
and by the addition of certain ingredients, discovered what 
he calls lactoserine, a half dry composition, found to be a 
very valuable nutriment for man and beast. Samples of 
the various preparations were yesterday shown in the 
Hotel Ostregothia at Stockholm before a large invited as- 
semoly, consisting of dairymen, great landowners, pro¬ 
fessors of chemistry, as well as members of the press. 
There were exposed and investigated, first, the contents of 
a lot of phials and jugs, as well as powders and pressed 
“SKIM-MILK ON THE SQUARE” 
AT HOME. 
The R.N.-Y. has had agood deal to say 
about the new products of skim-milk— 
caseine and lactoserine—because it be¬ 
lieves that the manufacture and use of 
these products will eventually revolu¬ 
tionize the dairy business by creating a 
cash value for skim-milk, which is now 
nearly, if not quite, a waste product. A 
representative of The R. N.-Y. is now in 
Sweden investigating the new products 
at their home. From a recent letter the 
follo^ng report is taken. We also pre¬ 
sent the translation of an article which 
appeared in several Swedish papers. 
At the lactoserine factory they take 
the raw lactoserine cukes from the dairy 
as described on previous pages. These 
cakes are white and moist and about six 
inches square. The first process is drying; 
the second, cutting into inch squares 
third, roasting or not roasting ; fourth, 
taking it to the mills to be made. Roasted 
lactoserine Is a very fine powder for cocoa 
and some kinds of sauces aud soups, and 
good, but not so fine, for making coffee 
lactoserine. Lactoserine not roasted is 
suitable for preparing a powder for several white soups 
and sauces, for curry powders used in India, for preparing 
desserts, for food for infants, and, last, for the manufacture 
of soap. In a word, the whey which so commonly is given 
to the pigs, is, by this process, utilized to take the place of 
milk iu many articles of food, and in the baths which 
ladies take to produce a smooth skin. 
On June 18 the people gave a lactoserine dinner to your 
representative. Gentlemen present were : Wilhelm Rehn¬ 
strom, Inventor; B. A. Danelius, Wholesale Merchant; 
Fahlcrantz, Solicitor; C. E. Bergstrand, Professor of Agri¬ 
culture; Th. Rosendahl, Managing Director—Board of 
Lactoserine Company : Adolph Bagze, Banker; Tigers- 
borz, Professor Royal Medical Institute; Th. Winborg; 
G. De Laval, Inventor of the Separators, of which there 
are over 13,000 in use ; your representative The Swedes 
take a small lunch before sitting down to dinner—a sand¬ 
wich or a herring, or something of that sort, and a little 
drink to whet their appetites. We did so on this occasion, 
and then sat down to the following : 
Menu. 
Soup, Victoria.Lactoserine iu place of milk. 
Fish.Lactoserine sauce. 
Beefsteak aud potatoes.Lactoserine sauce. 
Vegetables.Lactoseriue sauce. 
Asparagus.Lactoserine omelet. 
Chicken.Lactoserine gravy. 
Ice-cream.Lactoserine in place of milk. 
Cheese aud cakes. 
Fruits. 
Sweets.Lactoserine candy. 
Coffee.50 per cent. Lactoserine. 
I had the pleasure of seeing the latter weighed on the 
scales, ground, put into the pot, and finally I drank it. 
BEHOLD HOW GREAT A FIRE A PIPE KINDLETH. Fig. 198. _£? 
cakes intended for cattle-feed, and the nitrogenous sub¬ 
stances were unanimously considered to be far superior to 
any other kind of cattle cake hitherto in the market.” 
Afterwards several samples of the lactoserine were exhib¬ 
ited roasted and ground, intended as food for family use 
aud otherwise, as well as a certain preparation to be used 
as a family or toilet soap highly recommended by the 
inventor for its medical properties against freckles in the 
face and the general run of skin diseases which the human 
body is heir to. It is known that in former days, the fair 
sex used to a great extent to w’ash themselves, especially 
their hands and faces, in cow’s milk as a means of procur¬ 
ing a clear, peachy skin and fair complexions. Cow’s milk 
is known to absorb the taste and odor of the various articles 
placed in its neighborhood, which fact is offered as an ob- 
jtcction to the use of it by the housekeeper in preparation 
of tasteful soups, sauces and pastry. The various lacto¬ 
serine products were yesterday tried, to a great extent, at 
the splendid dinner served at the hotel to the committee 
and invited guests (more than 20 persons), where all the 
various dishes were more or less mixed with the new lac¬ 
toseriue. Half the coffee served afterwards was composed 
of the new article, but it was, nevertheless, highly praised 
for its fine flavor. 
It is also widely known that cow’s milk contains a cer¬ 
tain percentage of almost indissolvable cheese matter, 
from which, by the above-named process, another kind of 
cattle feed named caseine is formed. This is a highly val¬ 
uable cake, very benefieial for dairy cows as well as for 
beef cattle. ” 
The discovery has already attracted a great deal of in¬ 
terest among the thrifty dairymen of this country, to 
whose profits it is likely to make no small addition. 
HOW I HAD “VALUE RECEIVED” FROM MY 
FARM. 
A “gentleman farmer ,” $30,000 Invested in a $5,000, 
40-acre farm; opposed to poverty platitudes from 
over-paid ministers and to red flannel jackets for poor 
torrid zone cannibals; bulldozing colored voters ; 
buying titled sons-in-law; spending money at home; 
Confederates as pension-makers: level-headedness on 
papers. 
I am, or at least have been for the past 20 years, a plain 
farmer, without any pretensions to eloquence, or desire 
to appear in print. I have never sued or been sued, 
nor has any of my immediate family, so far as I am 
aware, although we have been in this section nearly 150 
years. I had the advantage of a good education, but 
roamed over classical grounds pretty much as I did on my 
ancestors’ estate for years, not taking any further interest 
in it than enough to kill time most expeditiously. Twenty 
years ago, being possessed of quite a comfortable income, 
I took a small farm of about 40 acres and, having subscribed 
to half a dozen or more agricultural journals, thought I 
would show the “ natives,” “ how the farm pays,” and 
to-day over $30,000 of my money is invested in the 
farm which would probably bring $5,000, were I compelled 
to sell it, and I have no income except what might be 
turned outside of farming, and I have worked harder and 
exposed myself more than I have ever asked any of my 
hired hands to do. I belong to no political party, but 
always vote for whom I consider the best 
man, irrespective of religion or politics; 
but when I come to look at statistics in 
regard to farming, I think I must have 
been extra stupid not to have succeeded. I 
fail though to see through a gieit many 
things I see and read. I fail to see the 
beauty of the remarks of some ministers 
who get $8,000 or $10,000 a year, house 
rent free, gifts enough to run the same, 
two assistants apiece to do heavy work 
and who are able to eat three hearty 
meals a day, and probably two plates of 
lobster salad at night before retiring, 
and then their congregations think they 
need rest, and get up a purse to send 
them to Europe for several months. I 
say when such a clergyman looks at me 
during his sermon, and discourses upon 
the joys of poverty, and intimates that I 
ought even to go in debt to help him out 
on a new steeple, or the mission fund 
that is being raised to send red flannel 
jackets and moral pocket handkerchiefs 
to the South Sea Islanders, I fail to see 
his point, although he may have the 
statistics to prove it is the proper thing. 
I fail to see why it is intimidating 
colored voters in the South to get them 
to vote the Democratic ticket, when every 
colored voter has to vote the straight 
Republican ticket, while nine out of 10 
times, they vote dead against the men 
who give them employment, and to 
whom they go for assistance in case of 
need. Why should Mr. Hale refuse to 
embody among the questions to be asked 
farmers in taking the next census, 
“ Have you a mortgage on your farm ? ” 
if he believed farming interests were 
as booming as former statistics would 
have us believe. Instead of sending 
money to Ireland, I think it will only 
be a few years before Ireland will have to 
send money to us. As far as I can see, 
what has ruined Ireland has been that 
everything has been going out and noth¬ 
ing coming in. As soon as a man accu¬ 
mulates a million or more in the United 
States nowadays, and has a marriageable 
daughter, he runs off to Europe, (I sup¬ 
pose when the supplies of such marriage, 
able commodities are exhausted there, he will strike 
Africa) to purchase some impecunious Baron or Count 
for a son-in-law, and those who are not blessed with a 
daughter start an establishment in London or Paris to 
reduce their surplus, after the style of Vanderbilt, etc. 
When I started farming, I made it a principle to spend 
every cent I possibly could in my own neighborhood, 
haul stones from my fields on to the public roads, and if 
the supervisors wouldn’t place them I did so myself. I 
also kept all water furrows clean. My neighbors who 
have more spread-eagle sense than I have, probably think 
I would have done better had I pursued an opposite 
course, which they have all done; but bad roads are 
among the things that I think 1 do see hurt any section 
of the country. There is a tax on wool, but none on 
dogs, so “ honors are easy ” there. Don’t you think the 
Confederate soldiers must have been the most remark¬ 
able marksmen in the world; for from the size of the 
pension list now in existence, and the large number of ap¬ 
plicants still to be put on it, I am led to think they either 
killed or hit nearly every man that was in the Federal 
army ? Trusts are bad enough, but there was some con¬ 
solation in the thought that the immense profits would 
stay in the country; but when John Bull gobbles them 
all up, what “consolation statistical plaster” will our 
patriotic legislators have to present us with? As to agri¬ 
cultural papers, I have reduced those I take to two: 
The Rural New-Yorker and the Farm Journal. I pre¬ 
sume The Rural thinks I am sound there, even if I am 
“off” on my other remarks. I am no flatterer, but these 
two journals I expect to take, even if I get into some Trust, 
which I shall not be slow in doing if the opportunity ever 
presents itself. “a Maryland cynic,” 
