1905. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4i9 
SUMMER BUTTER MAKING AT 
HOME. 
A pantry on the northwest corner of 
the house, with two windows, is an ideal 
one to raise cream. Do not put food of 
any kind that has an odor with milk. 
Have the shelves bare, so that they can 
be kept clean with hot water. As long 
as the weather will permit I keep cream 
and butter in the pantry. Have the cellar 
cleaned; the windows replaced with 
screens. If the sun shines in have a board 
at hand to put up to them in the morn¬ 
ing, taking away as the air grows cooler. 
A large box does duty as a table. This 
box turned over holds carrots in the 
Winter. It is taken out each Spring and 
thoroughly cleaned. The side of a pack¬ 
ing case three by five feet makes a plat¬ 
form on which to churn when I cannot do 
it upstairs. When the butter comes I 
bring it up to wash, as it is sometimes 
necessary to wash in 10 waters. I do it 
in the churn in very warm weather. The 
cream is churned when it needs it, if it is 
every day. I much prefer to have the milk 
lopper, as it is easier to skim clean. I 
skim morning and night when necessary. 
I am governed by the condition of the 
butter about working it, after working it 
three times, if it shows signs of being 
oily I leave it at once. In rolling it up 
I dip the cloth in cold water, removing it 
for a dry one before selling. I take no 
more customers than I think I can furnish 
the season through. I have had for sev¬ 
eral years 25 cents in Summer, 28 in Win¬ 
ter. The surplus is packed in crocks and 
sold at the current price. I make some 
cheese each year when there is a flush ot 
milk. With the utmost vigilance there are 
times when the butter will not be so good. 
It cannot be good unless much time and 
thought are used in making it. I depend 
on the cellar almost entirely. In a very 
warm spell I put the cream pail in a tub 
of cold water to lower the temperature; 
never in the well, as I consider it too 
much of a risk. The trouble and ex¬ 
pense of cleaning a well should the cream 
accidentally get into it would be too great. 
Keep all utensils clean, use plenty of cold 
water and your butter will be good. 
MRS. F. 
GOOD MILK RATION. 
What is a good feed for a cow that was 
fresh in November; seems to he drying up 
some? I have’good Herd’s grass and clover 
hay. Iler feed is six quarts of mixed feed a 
day and all the good hay she will eat up 
clean. I make butter to sell. Give a good 
ration of grain if you can that is profitable 
to feed. J. c. a. 
In addition to what good hay the cow 
will eat clean a good grain ration is two 
pounds wheat bran, three pounds hominy 
feed and three pounds of cotton-seed meal. 
This will make butter of unusually fine 
quality as far as feed is concerned. An¬ 
other good grain ration is three pounds 
mixed feed and two pounds each gluten 
feed and cotton-seed meal. This also 
will make a nice quality of butter. After 
cows begin to shrink it is very hard to 
bring them back to their natural flow. 
It is much easier to keep the flow even 
from the start. h. g. m. 
Dairy Cows and Good Milk. —In regard to 
F. A. B. page 367, buying heifer calves, if he 
was here in Delaware County, N. Y., in Feb¬ 
ruary or March he could pick up all the 
young calves he would want, and get them 
from dairies that give rich milk. Thousands 
are killed annually and their hides sold for 
75 cents each. Almost everyone sells milk 
and it is about impossible to raise calves on 
creamery separated milk; even when one can 
get it, the creameries would rather mix it 
with their whole milk and ship to the city. 
It is “good enough for the city people!’’ 
Dairies are very few in this section that test 
less than four per cent butter fat. T have a 
list of 20 dairies before me, that average four 
to five. Of course I remember in a recent issue 
of The R. N-Y., that three < or four writers 
from the central part of the State commented 
on the Cowan bill and felt so sorry for the 
poor dairyman with his poor dairies that 
could not give 3.3 milk, and that half of 
the cows would have to be thrown out. It 
was too bad that those Holstein men should 
advertise the poor dairymen’s herds In the 
way they did and no doubt they think every¬ 
one believed it, but the farmers are not all 
fools merely because they keep silent. I was | 
in favor of the Cowan bill, for the purpose 
of stopping the skimming of milk at the sta¬ 
tions, selling a can of cream for about $16 
and adding one-fifth skim-milk to the whole 
milk, thereby taking the place of whole 
milk. The facts are that the poor dairyman 
could stand the 3.3 test but the much adver¬ 
tised ITolsteins would have had to go away 
back and sit down. E. E. s. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
The Curse of Maggots.—I see many inqui¬ 
ries in the farm papers concerning maggots. 
I consider them the worst pest which the 
market gardener has to contend with, for 
there is scarcely any practical way to destroy 
them. I have lost several hundred dollars 
from the depredations of the cabbage and rad¬ 
ish maggots during the last two years. All 
my ground is now infested with them, so that 
last year I had to rent extra ground for my 
cabbage and radishes. By not raising cab¬ 
bage and radishes on my soil this season I 
hope to starve them out and get rid of them. 
In fact, this is the only practical remedy 
where these crops are raised on a large scale. 
The Cabbage maggot will not bother onions, 
nor the Onion maggot cabbage or radishes. 
Both originate from eggs deposited by flies 
very similar to common house flies. Last 
Summer I had one acre of early cabbage in 
two separate patches, both of which were 
badly infested. In the one patch, as soon as 
I noticed the eggs deposited around the plants 
I scraped the soil away down to the roots 
and filled the excavation around the stems 
with fresh ashes and a teaspoonful of nitrate 
of soda, neither of which did a particle of 
good. The maggots hatched and thrived in 
the ashes as they would in soil, and destroyed 
nearly every plant. In the other patch I 
made a slight excavation around each plant 
and poured about a cupful of carbolic acid 
solution around each, following the first ap¬ 
plication with another a week later. In this 
way I saved nearly every plant, and raised a 
fine crop. I saved most of my late cabbage 
by sowing radishes thickly between the rows. 
Most of the maggots attacked the radishes, 
which were destroyed, together with the mag¬ 
gots, by the use of the cultivator. A second 
brood of maggots then attacked the cabbage, 
and as the stems were then too large and 
tough for them, they crawled up into the 
heads and injured many. Nine-tenths of all 
my radishes during the past two seasons have 
been ruined by maggots, of which they seem 
to be the favorite food. I know of no profit¬ 
able way to destroy the maggots on radishes 
or onions in large patches, as the amount of 
carbolic acid necessary is too large, and the 
labor of applying too great. o’, d. e. 
I’iqua, O. 
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Our Claim 
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