1907. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
'599 
FAMILY CHEESE MAKING. 
Can you give a recipe for making cheese 
for family use? John h. green. 
It is hardly possibly to outline even in 
the briefest way any method of making 
small quantities of cheese for family use. 
To make the common factory or so-called 
American cheese requires considerably ap¬ 
paratus to begin with, and in addition a 
good deal of skill, training and time. In 
fact it is hardly feasible unless two or 
three hundred pounds of milk are avail¬ 
able. Then the room for it to undergo 
the curing process of several weeks must 
be reasonably cool. In fact, to make 
good cheese is far more difficult than 
the making of good butter. Some 
of the f...icy or soft cheeses can be made 
more easily, and Neufchatel and Phila¬ 
delphia cream cheese are eaten without 
any curing, but even these require the 
use of rennet and some skill and judg¬ 
ment. I think your inquirer will be most 
likely to succeed with the plain “Dutch” 
or “pot” cheese, which is skim-milk al¬ 
lowed to become sour enough to thicken 
and then slowly heated up to a little more 
than blood heat, and the curd drained in 
cloths and then rubbed fine with the 
hands and salted to taste. The more but¬ 
ter and cream added, the more palatable 
it will be. Nicely made and flavored it 
is by no means an unpalatable product. 
For some tastes it is improved by being 
allowed to become strong by keeping a 
few days. jared van wagenen, JR. 
THF DEVON , COW WITH THREE B’s. 
On page 550 W. P. K., of Ossining, 
N. Y., asks what is the objection to 
Devon cattle, as he sees none, or seldom 
sees them advertised. In your remarks 
in answer to the query you say “The 
chief objection to Devons is their size 
and lack of dairy qualities.” While we 
admit they are not as large as the Short¬ 
horns and Herefords, still the Devon is 
by no means a small animal. Bulls 
weighing 1,800 to 2,200 are very common 
among them. Steers weighing 1,600 to 
1,700 at two years old are not uncommon 
among the Devons, cows weighing 1,200 
to 1,400. While these weights may seem 
small to the breeder of the larger breeds, 
still when compared with the amount of 
feed consumed per hundred pounds we 
think the Devon will be counted the more 
profitable animal of the two. The dairy 
qualities of the Devon have been under¬ 
rated; cows giving 50 to 65 pounds of 
milk per day are very common. As one 
Devon breeder says, his cows give in 
one year over five times their weight in 
milk. At a test of four Jersey and four 
Devon cows at an Indiana county fair the 
Jerseys tested as follows. No. 1, 5 8-10; 
No. 2, 6 4-10; No. 3 , 6 6-10; No. 4, 7 2-10. 
The Devons tested as follows: No. 1 , 
6 4-10; No. 2, 6 6-10; No. 3, 6 8-10; No. 4, 
8 per cent. This shows some of the mer¬ 
its of Devons as dairy cows. At the 
Minnesota State Fair a few years ago the 
premium offered for the best herd of 
milk cows, quantity and quality of milk 
to be considered, was taken by the Dev¬ 
ons from the herd of George Baker & 
Son. In the transactions of the Worces¬ 
ter, Mass., Agricultural Society a report 
is given of the feeding for 20 days of two 
Devons and two Ayrshires of about the 
same age and condition. It was found that 
the Devons consumed 2.10 pounds of hay 
for every 100 pounds of live weight that 
the Ayrshires consumed 2.86 pounds per 
day for each 100 pounds of live weight; 
the Devons gained 62 pounds and the Ayr- 
. shires 40 pounds, a gain for the Devons 
of 55 per cent more on 25 per cent less 
food. The cow Gem produced 215 pounds 
of butter in 95 days, more than 2 
pounds per day; cow Beauty produced 
16 pounds of butter a week when she 
was 14 years old, an age when most of 
the cows of the butter breeds, so-called, 
have passed to that country where churn 
dashers are unknown. Thus we might go 
on and enumerate more of the same kind, 
but this is enough to show the Devon is 
not lacking as a dairy cow. As for beef, 
they are as good as any, while, as said 
above, not so large as some other breeds, 
still they grow large enough for all prac¬ 
tical purposes. I might say further that 
a South Dakota Devon breeder sold nine 
head, one bull and eight cows, that 
weighed on an average after being driven 
six miles 1,416 1-9 pounds—not so bad 
for the so-called little Devon. The Dev¬ 
ons are hardy, easy keepers, always in 
good heart and .the farmers’ cow, the cow 
with the three B’s—Beef, Butter and 
Beauty. l. p. sisson. 
Newark, Ohio. 
HORSE WITH STRINGHALT. 
I have a colt 14 months old that is string- 
halted very badly. Give me a remedy. 
Alabama. c. c. m. 
There is no cure for the disease as a 
general rule, but when it has come as a 
result of some strain or accident in the 
adult horse there is a possibility of success 
from an operation known as “peroneal 
tenotomy,” which requires an expert sur¬ 
geon. In young geldings we have known 
a few cases apparently induced by for¬ 
mation' of a tumor upon the end of one 
of the soermatic cords severed at time of 
castration, but become adherent to the 
walls of the scrotum, and where this con¬ 
dition is found to exist its removal may 
possibly •remedy the jerking gait which 
at least simulates string-halt in such cases. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
DUTCH BELTED CATTLE. 
On page 587 is a picture showing some 
Dutch Belted cattle owned by G. G. Gibbs, 
of Vail, N. J. These animals certainly 
present a beautiful appearance. We have 
heard it claimed that the standard of col¬ 
oring is, against them—that where calves 
are selected because of the white belt the 
best dairy animals might be rejected. 
The following note from Mr. Gibbs shows 
that belted or not the cattle attend to 
business. 
You say: “That Dutch Belted breed cer¬ 
tainly does make a beautiful showing in a 
picture.” There is only one thing more cer¬ 
tain, and that is that they certainly make a 
more beautiful showing out of a picture. 
Aunt Macrina, No. 931, is due to calve 
(counting nine months), August 9, and her 
daughter, Clytie, No. 1059, is due August 12. 
They should be dry, but the two together 
give more milk than I can milk into a 10- 
quart pail twice daily. I have hut 13 cows, 
and am getting four 40-quart cans of milk 
daily. This is practically made by 10 cows, 
as it takes about the milk of the three cows 
that give the least for domestic purposes. 
These 10 cows are not all fresh. My milk 
from these 13 cows for last December at 
3% cents per quart brought me 10 per cent 
more than my milk for this month will bring 
me at two cents per quart. The milk for 
November, December and January averaged a 
hundred dollars a month. They are good for 
more than to look at. 
HOW TO CATCH COONS? 
I live about 10 miles east of the city of 
Richmond, near the Chickahominy River, 
somewhere near where Captain John 
Smith was captured and afterward res¬ 
cued by Pocahontas. I am troubled a 
great deal with coons, not those of the 
genus homo, but the four-legged kind. 
They commence to pull and eat my corn 
as soon as it gets to be roasting ear size. 
Last year they pulled down as high as 
fifty ears in one small field. They would 
not eat it all, but most of the time they 
would only take a bite or two out of an 
ear, just enough to ruin it. I tried all 
kinds of remedies against them, but it 
was of no avail. I put poisoned eggs in 
ther path, but they would not touch them. 
I watched for them at night, set traps and 
even tied a dog in the field at night, but 
while he would be howling all night the 
coons would be pulling down the corn 
not 200 yards away. Seeing that The 
R. N.-Y. is of so much help to its sub¬ 
scribers, I would appreciate it very much 
if you would publish an inquiry in your 
paper how to catch or destroy the coons 
or how to keep them out of the corn 
field. Is there any bait that will draw 
them ? j. F. 
Because You 
Need 
The Money 
It’s yonr business and if you don’t 
attend to it. who will? You cannot 
afford to keep cows for fun. That isn’t I 
business, and, furthermore, it isn’t | 
necessary. There is money in cow 
keeping if you go at it right, and be¬ 
sides there is more fun in going at it 
right than there is in staying wrong. 
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