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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 
HOW I MAKE BUTTER. 
I noticed a request from F. G. H.. 
Connecticut, for hints on butter mak¬ 
ing. We are small farmers; have al¬ 
ways made the butter at home, except¬ 
ing two years we sent to the cream¬ 
ery. We did not feel satisfied with 
the tests they gave us. We have used 
the 10-quart tin pans, also the large 
tin dry pan holding the milk of 10 
or 12 cows. But you lose a large 
per cent of butter fat in warm or 
sihowery Weather. We tried next 
Cooley cans. They do very well if 
you have cold water to run them. At 
last we tried the separator. They are 
fine, as they take out all the butter 
fat there is in the milk, and no farmer 
can afford to keep cows without them. 
You will laugh when I say we use ours 
when we are milking only one cow. 
There is no calves’ milk to be warmed; 
you take it sweet from the separator 
every milking, only be careful not to 
get any of that froth in as it is not 
good for calves. We begin them on 
this milk by giving part new and part 
separated milk same as the sweot skim- 
milk. 
Now for the trials of butter making. 
We run the cream- thicker than for 
the creamery, so as to have less slop 
to handle in the churn. • As we keep 
from 12 to 18 cows, I churn every 
three days in June, July and August, 
three times in two weeks in May, 
September, October and November, 
and once a week the other months, as 
we make but little then-. I set the 
cream in 10-quart tin buckets eight 
months of the year, where -it will keep 
at 40 degrees till I get enough cream 
for my churning. I use all the buck¬ 
ets from the first time I begin to save 
it. I turn each mess of cream into 
every cute of these buckets and stir 
well every morning, and night; never 
add new cream- for 24 hours before 
churning, as it will not ripen, and is 
lost in the buttermilk. I use three 
large tin cans in warm weather, tied 
in the water tub for cream. As we 
have a barrel churn, I warm it with 
warm water to 60 degrees or 62 de¬ 
grees in the Summer, and 64 degrees in- 
the Winter by thermometer. For every 
pound of butter take one ounce of salt 
and one-quarter ounce of white sugar, 
a part of the year we color it. 
We have a butter worker. After tak¬ 
ing the butter up, run the roll over 
it twice, then put on salt and sugar 
mixed together. Run- roll over, turn 
ends of butter over towards- the cen¬ 
ter, roll again, then- roll up- the but¬ 
ter, turn it top for bottom and roll 
again. Repeat from cross three times 
and it is done, making five times you 
roll it after salting it. I always work 
•the butter by this rule, and have very 
little trouble with it. I would like 
to hear from some of the others and 
their ways of caring for the cream 
and butter, as we are never too old 
to learn. J. 
Concord, Vt. 
HANDLING A BROOD MARE. 
What is ' the best way to handle and 
treat a high-tempered cross-dispositioned 
mare, due to foal April 12, 1909? She 
never has raised any colts and is now 
past 20 years of age, and a very faulty 
breeder in this respect, always so cross to 
other horses. But for build, endurance and 
being a very strong fast walker to a load 
she is of very high merit for a large 
animal of 1,400 pounds. She is in fine 
looking condition now, with all appearance 
to give a strong healthy foal and a large 
flow of milk. But how will the colt get 
it if she continues being so very touchy 
and cross, and so very resentful to being 
handled now? Another very peculiar way 
she has of never being in a habit of lying 
down to rest. She has had the mange 
during the Summer season for several years 
and I know of no sure cure for it. Must 
her colts, if they live, be troubled in the 
same way? f. d. e. 
New York. 
It is the opinion of practical horse¬ 
men here that the mare owned by F. 
D. R. will own her colt when it comes 
and will raise it all right. She will, 
perhaps, be inclined to fight horses and 
persons to protect her colt, so it is 
advisable to keep other horses away, 
and not to meddle himself unless neces¬ 
sary. The mare should be firmly but 
gently treated by her caretakers at all 
times, so as not to make her more cross 
than can be helped. It is quite un¬ 
usual for draft mares to have the dis¬ 
position described, and when cross and 
vicious it is best never to breed them, 
for the colt will most likely inherit 
the vices. It will be well to watch this 
mare, to see that she does not take 
a notion to kill the colt, which it is 
barely possible she may try to do, and 
it may be worth while to tie her up 
short so she cannot injure the colt 
when it tries to suck. Failing in this 
the colt may be raised by hand, feeding 
it cow’s milk, while the mare may be 
milked a few times by hand and dried 
up. Given the freedom of a box stall 
or a pasture, this mare will lie down 
when she desires to, so this habit of 
not lying down need occasion no con¬ 
cern. The trouble referred to as mange 
is probably not mange at all, but 
eczema or some other skin trouble oc¬ 
casioned by good feeding and warm 
weather, and while not contagious the 
colt will quite likely be affected the 
same way in time. The owner should 
make sure that the trouble is not due 
to lice. Perhaps there is a local vet¬ 
erinarian or a stallion owner who can 
give this man much practical assistance, 
and, being on the ground, can tell bet¬ 
ter what to do as occasion may re¬ 
quire or as the disposition and moods 
of the mare may determine. 
W, E. DUCKWALL. 
A gentleman who was no longer 
young, and who never was handsome, 
said to a little girl in the presence of 
her parents: “Well, my dear, what do 
you think of me?” The child made 
no reply, and the gentleman continued: 
“Well, you don’t tell me. Why won’t 
you?” Two little fat hands tucked the 
corners of a pinafore into her mouth, 
as she said, archly, in a timid whisper: 
“ ’Cause I don’t want to get whipped.” 
—London Telegraph. 
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