1909. 
The Farmer’s Wife as a Buttermaker. 
The New York Evening Post’s edi¬ 
torial referred to on page 932 , is an ex¬ 
cellent example of the errors which lie 
ready to fall from the pen which trusts 
to one or two perfectly true but wholly 
inadequate observations. There are the 
strongest of chances that one wishing to 
buy a glass of milk at the farmhouse 
should be told that it all went hours 
before to the creamery. I have lived 
in a region of small farms these 50 
years, and have seen some changes 
sweep (gradually over farm methods, 
none perhaps more noticeable than in 
small dairy management. Now I should 
be interested to track down to the writ¬ 
er’s experience this statement from the 
Post's editorial: “The few women who 
do persist in making good butter for 
sale, have no trouble in finding private 
families who will take their entire out¬ 
put at creamery prices or even higher.” 
It seems probable that the pen set it 
down because it sounded reasonable. 
It is not true in my locality, though wt> 
have all the advantages of excellent 
near-by markets, both village and city 
being within easy driving distance. 
Twenty years ago it became quite appar¬ 
ent that the creamery was to drive the 
one-woman butter-maker off the field. 
The butter turned out by a good cream¬ 
ery has another flavor than that from 
cream skimmed from shallow pans set 
upon pantry shelves. F’lavors are liked 
or disliked acording to individual taste. 
The writer referred to may possibly 
like butter such as his grandmother 
used to make, but the probabilities are 
that he merely thinks he should like it, 
and that his city-bred children would 
refuse it as strong-tasted and off qual¬ 
ity. It is not a matter of frowy or 
rancid tastes. Butter from cream taken, 
a whole churning off one lot of milk, 
held at suitable temperatures and 
churned when exactly ready, has the 
pure, smooth taste of rich cream. No 
amount of care and attention to cleanli¬ 
ness can save the farmer’s wife from 
having butter of varying quality, accord¬ 
ing as the weather is favorable or un¬ 
favorable for her cream rising. Cus¬ 
tomers used to expect a slight falling 
below the best quality during dog-days, 
and again after frost had bitten the 
grass and cream became long in the 
churning. Now, and at the prices asked, 
no one ventures a second chance of get¬ 
ting poor butter. Not that good butter 
is not still made by the single-handed 
worker, and from three or four cow§, 
but no such butter maker anywhere in 
Southern New England can be sure of 
a steady market for her output. 
Twenty years ago our grocers began 
objecting to handling farmers’ butter. 
No one could blame them. It was not 
uniformly good; and as well tell a 
woman never to enter your store again 
as to hint that she made poor but¬ 
ter. Creamery butter was more easily 
handled; it supplied the demand. Let 
those who would, buv direct from the 
farmers. But consumers have, for 
various reasons, never decided for farm¬ 
house butter, even if it were brought 
every week to their doors neatly paper- 
wrapped in stamped pound cakes. There 
are excellent butter-makers among my 
neighbors who sell their six to 12 
pounds a week among their friends, but 
it is very doubtful if they could secure 
a line of city patrons, or if they ever 
get the best creamery prices. Their 
husbands wish to keep a few cows for 
the sake of the benefits of barnyard fer¬ 
tilizer upon the land. Their farming 
runs to other interests. One cleared 
three thousand dollars off his peach or¬ 
chards in 1908, and did even better this 
year. Another prefers growing large 
fields of potatoes, using planter, riding 
cultivator and digger, and making his 
horses do the work which once required 
the help of hired men. 
Being within reach of retail milk sell¬ 
ing, all keepers of over eight or 10 
cows either run small milk routes or 
else sell to the larger dealers. Having 
many acres of rough, unimproved land 
for pasturage, a man here and there 
turns butter-maker, sets milk in deep 
cans kept in a tank of running water, 
and has his own creamery stamp. But 
the indications are that if his be hill 
lands he stands a better chance for win¬ 
ning a bank account who sets such land 
to apple and peach trees and then gives 
them the faithful care and good feed 
his cows and butter making demand. 
Turn your dairy interests which way 
you will and in my locality you would 
come to own that the humus returned 
to the fields and the skim-milk fed to 
pigs and poultry was about all the 
cleared profits to be counted upon after 
your hired man’s wages and grain bills 
were paid. For these are really start¬ 
ling items for farmers of to-day to face. 
R. ITHAMAR. 
THE RURAL NEVV»YOKKE8 
1073 
The Rural Patterns. 
The child's cap and bib shown arc in¬ 
cluded in one pattern, but the embroidery 
patterns are separate, costing 10 cents 
each, and if desired must be ordered by 
their separate numbers. The cap is made 
with the brim portion and crown. The 
turned-over portion is separate andi when 
used is joined to the front edge. The bib 
is made in one piece. The quantity of 
material required for any size is for bib 
6505 Child's Cap and Bib, 
6 mos., 1 and 2 years. 
and cap % yard 21, V 2 yard 36 inches 
wide. The pattern 6505 is cut in sizes for 
6 months, 1 and 2 years, the embroidery 
patterns 451 and 448 in one size only; 
price of each 10 cents. 
The corset cover is a desirable model, and 
can be made very dainty with hand em¬ 
broidery, the embroidery pattern being 
separate. The corset cover is made with 
fronts and back. The circular peplum is 
seamed to the lower edge and the seam is 
6493 Opera or Auto Hood, One Size. 
covered by a band) of material. In this 
instance r/bbon is threaded through eyelets 
at the neck edge to regulate the size. If 
the embroidery is not used beading can be 
arranged over the edge and threaded with 
ribbon to serve the same purpose. The 
quantity of material required for the med¬ 
ium size is 1^4 yards 36 or 1 yardl 44 
inches wide. The pattern 6499 is cut in 
sizes for a 34, 36, 3S, 40 and 42 inches 
bust measure, the embroidery pattern, No. 
6499 Corset Cover with Peplum, 
34 to 42 bust. 
467 Embroidery Pattern- 
467, in one sifce only; price of each 10 
cents. 
The opera or auto hood shown is very 
useful for evening wear and is both stylish 
and becoming. It can bo worn as shown 
in either view, the scarf ends forming a 
cape or being brought around to tie in the 
front. Chiffon cloth is the material shown 
in the Illustration but soft thin silks, crepes 
and all materials of the sort are appropri¬ 
ate. The rosettes can be of the same or 
of ribbon as liked. The hood consists of 
one piece, which is plaited and gathered to 
produce an effective result. There are ties 
attached to the nock edge beneath the 
rosettes. The quantity of material required 
is 3% yards IS, 1% yards 30 or 44 inches 
wide with 3 Y 2 yards 5 inches wide for the 
rosettes. The pattern 6493 is cut in one 
si’ze only ; price 10 cents. 
Three Home Recipes. 
Noodles with Tomato Sauce, Italian 
Style.—Make a good tomato sauce, flav¬ 
ored with one onion, medium size, 
chopped sweet pepper (green is best), 
grated cheese, olive oil, a little parsley 
and some salt. Let it all cook up well, 
then pour over noodles that are cooked 
and well drained. Let this heat up for 
a few minutes, then serve. 
Stewed Tomatoes, Spanish Style.— 
Fry some onions, a little garlic and 
some sweet peppers in pure olive oil 
until tender; then add sliced ripe toma¬ 
toes, salt and cook until done. 1 his is 
very appetizing. 
Cabbage and Mutton.—Fry a small 
piece of mutton a nice brown in its own 
fat, free from skin, add salt and pepper, 
cover with water, then cook until tender, 
Put in some sliced cabbage and cook un¬ 
til done. Beef can be used the same 
way; any cheap piece will do, such as 
flank. This is very good, and much more 
economical than bacon. m. g. 
About Samp. —As I remember when 
corn was ground early in Fall for pud¬ 
dings, coarse, it was sifted and the finer 
was called samp. It was boiled a long 
time. Field corn was used and ground 
in the old stone mill. Where 1 rn is 
cracked in the mills nowadays, I think 
by sifting it might be the same. a. b. 
Cocoanut Pudding.—One cup bread 
crumbs, two-thirds cup sugar, one-half 
cup cocoanut, two eggs, one pint milk, 
one tablespoonful butter, one teaspoonful 
vanilla. Warm milk and pour over 
crumbs, beat the sugar, butter, yolks, 
vanilla and cocoanut together; mix with 
crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven until 
done. Whisk the whites of eggs with 
three tablespoonfuls sugar and spread on 
top. Return to oven and brown. Serve 
cold. 
Lentil Soup.—Wash one pint of len¬ 
tils and soak over night. Drain in the 
morning, wash and put in a soup kettle 
with two quarts of stock and simmer 
for nearly two hours. Melt a table¬ 
spoon of butter in a frying pan, add a 
sliced onion, sprig of parsley, sprig of 
thyme (or savory) and a bay leaf. Fry 
until light brown, add this to the len¬ 
tils and simmer for a half-hour longer. 
Press the whole through a puree sieve, 
return to kettle, boil up once, add tea¬ 
spoon of salt, dusting of pepper and 
serve with squares of toasted bread. If 
thick part of soup settles to the bottom, 
add a tablespoonful of flour rubbed into 
the same amount of butter. 
This 
is the trade¬ 
mark which is 
found on every 
bottle of the 
genuine 
Scott’s Emulsion 
the standard Cod Liver Oil 
preparation of the world. 
Nothing equals it to build up 
the weak and wasted bodies 
Of yOUng and Old. All Druggists 
Sond lOo., name of paper and this ad. for our 
beautiful Savings Bank and Child’s Sketch- 
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SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., N. Y. 
DIRECT from FACTORY at 
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We sell to you at the same price we would sell to 
the dealer—pay the freight besides. Stove pol¬ 
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Then, after 
ONE YEAR'S TRIAL 
we refund your 
money if you are 
not satisfied. 
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Stoves and Ranges 
standard for fifty 
vears. 
Send for our 
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and our Special 
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There Is one sure way 
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goods of quality— 
Simpson- Ed dystone 
Solid Black Prints 
have been the standard 
calicoes for over 65 years. 
Washing, sunlight or per¬ 
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the intense unchangeable 
lustrous color from these 
well-woven cloths. 
If your dealer hasn ’t Sim pson- 
Eddystone Prints write us his 
name. We’ll help him supply 
you. 
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Established by Wm. Simpson, Sr. 
Absolutely safe. Makes and bums its own 
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(-.Casts no shadow. Costs 2 ernts per 
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401 E. 5th St., Canton, O. 
Iowa 
Arctic 
See the Heavy 
Cum Toe Cap 
The Rochester Radiator will 
SAVE HALF YOUR FUEL 
or give you doublethe amount 
of heat from the same fuel, if 
you will give it a trial, or we 
will relund the money paid 
for it. Write for booklet on 
heating homes. 
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39 Furnace St.,Rochester,N.Y. 
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wood or gas 
Fits any 
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They insure strength at the right places. 
When you want any kind of a rubber boot or 
shoe ask your dealer to show you the Gold 
Cross Brand. They are made of fine rubberand 
are always the best for the money. 
If your dealer cannot supply 
you, send us his name and we 
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fitted out. 
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