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Soft Butter 
What makes butter come soft, and how 
prevent it? My butter has been coming 
creamy soft all this month. I have tried 
temperature SG, 58, GO, and as high as 
72, but it is all the same. L. R. 
New York. 
The causes for butter coming soft at 
this season of the year are too high a 
churning temperature, failure to cool churn 
thoroughly before putting the cream into 
it, failure to hold cream for some time 
at the churning temperature, and having 
the churn room at too high a temperature. 
After the butter comes other factors 
enter in such as the temperature of the 
wash water and the amount of working. 
Of course, it can be seen that an accurate 
thermometer is very essential. Many of 
the cheaper thermometers on the market 
are inaccurate. 
Cream that will test 30 per cent fat 
should churn satisfactorily at 52 to 54 
degrees at this season of the year. It 
should be held at this temperature for at 
least three hours before churning in or¬ 
der that the fat in the cream may be¬ 
come thoroughly chilled before pouring 
it into tlie churn. On very hot days 
churning should be done in good season 
in the morning to prevent the butter from 
coming soft. n. F. J. 
Care After Calving 
Is there any danger for a cow eating 
her afterbirth after calving? Should she 
he milked out, right away, or how .soon 
.after calving? What feed to he given the 
first few days? We have just lost a good 
cow and do not know wdiat was the cause. 
Madison, Conn. w. I. 
Cows frequently eat the after-birth af¬ 
ter calving, and with no evil results. 
There is said to he less danger from milk 
fever if the udder is not fully relieved 
from distension immediately after calving, 
but it is. customary to allow the calf to 
suck as soon as it will and then, some 
hours later, to milk out what the calf 
leaves; perhaps from twelve to twenty- 
four hours after calving. I know of no 
rule for this, but there need be no hurry 
about it. The usual grain ration is con¬ 
tinued after calving, but in reduced 
quantity if the cow has been heavily fed 
while dry. About a week should be con¬ 
sumed in getting hack to the full grain 
ration again. Wheat bran and middlings 
make a good laxative “mash” to feed after 
calving, while some of the heavier con¬ 
centrates, like cornmeal, cottonseed meal 
and gluten, should he fed in small 
amounts, if at all, until full feeding is re¬ 
sumed. If the cow can have such laxative 
foods as silage, roots, or pasture grass, 
there should be little danger from any of 
the ordinary grains fed. M. B. D. 
A Chinese Shoemaker^ 
You would hardly imagine from look¬ 
ing at him what the indivi<4ial .shoAvn on 
page 1004 represents. The picture is 
taken from “The Nation’s Business,” 
and shows a Chinese shoemaker on a 
street corner in Shanghai. A large part 
of the manufacturing work in China is 
still done by hand labor, and by such men 
as is shown hero. With the introdnotion 
of machinery these small hand enterprises 
will be w'iped out just as they w’ere in 
this country 50 years or more ago. The 
great problem in the future of China w’ill 
concern the outcome of this change. MTiat 
is to become of these baud w'orkmen 
when they are driven away from their 
job by machinery? The Chinaman is 
now spreading out more and more 
throughout the world. We are told that 
at least 100,000 of them are behind the 
lines in France. These men are building 
roads, planting forests, and raising farm 
crops, and they are doing the work well. 
The French w’cre said to be the_ best 
small farmers in the world, hut they say 
they have learned great things from the 
W’ork of these Chinamen. Thus the 
Frenchmen say that the Chinaman has 
the “thinnest of skulls and the quickest 
of brains,” if such thiugs can be said to 
be an advantage. 
Making Cottage Cheese 
(Continued from page 1007) 
Pimento cheese can be made as above 
or w'hole milk may he used. Simply add 
seven to 10 drops of cheese color per gal¬ 
lon of milk. Grind up the pimentos in 
a moat choi)per and add an ounce to a 
pound of cheese Avhen salting it. I have 
August 24, 1918 
had no experience with the snappy cheese, 
and cannot tell you offhand just how it 
is made, but doubtless like the above, ex¬ 
cept for the seasoning. I am sure you 
will be pleased with the result you ob¬ 
tain by the use of the above method. 
Never heat the curd before draining. It 
may take a few trials and a few changes 
in the recipe to suit your conditions be¬ 
fore you are able to make cheese that 
satisfies you. u. F. J. 
What a Country Woman Thinks 
(Continued from page 1004) 
very anxious to complete it iu time. 
They would probably not be .averse to 
accepting a prize on their handiwork 
w'hich, in turn, could be given to the 
Red Cross. I have just made a com¬ 
munity service flag for our little hamlet, 
and on it are 20 proud stars. The boys 
are going evei’y day, but not all are ac¬ 
cepted for first-trench work. Two of our 
acquaintances, boys who came of age a 
few months ago, have been declined—one 
on account of heart trouble, which in¬ 
variably accompanies asthma, and the 
other because he ires a victim two years 
ago of the infantile paralysis epidemic. 
This boy was not paralyzed visibly, but 
he has fainting spells come on suddenly 
as a result of the dread disease. 
Snow Stock. —We are planning to 
show our stock at the county fair again 
as u.sual. I am winding the halters of 
rope with red. white and blue calico re¬ 
spectively. These will help make a gala 
ai)i)caraneo and add to the beauty of our 
“black and whites.” I must find time to 
manufacture an enormous sign of un¬ 
bleached muslin to announce our farm 
and herd to the fair goers, and this 
will he placed over our stock in their 
quarters, aud everybody at a glance will 
know who those “fine calves” belong to! 
All such touches help to advertise the 
herd, and are as inexpensive a way of 
doing it as iws.sihle. And, of course, that 
is why we go to the trouble of showing 
our live stock at the county fair—to ad¬ 
vertise them. 
Knitting and the Day’s Work. —I 
am also trying to knit a sweater a week 
for the dear “doughboys.” I don’t always 
complete every stint in this instance, as 
there are a few things to he done at this 
time of year on a large dairy farm, and 
three decidedly live-wire children to look 
out for iu addition. Rut I love to knit, 
and do it very rapidly, and not one 
minute in the long day goes to waste. In 
fact, I have found it necessary to “sched¬ 
ule” my day as far as I am able in 
order to accomplish the thousand and one 
things I wish to do this stnison. Break¬ 
fast is over by seven o’clock and the 
dishes done. We do not rise at four 
A. M, as many farmer.s do, as oiir men 
have worked every fair night until nine 
P. M. by the now time. So we get up 
an hour later in tlie morning in order to 
heat the dew and the daylight-saving law. 
Immediately after breakfast the day’s 
baking is done on the hot fire, which 
then is let out. We have a bathroom 
aud hot and cold water, and this fire is 
necessary to heat up the tank for the 
day. After baking is over I wash up 
the baking dishes, which is so much 
quicker aud easier than when they be¬ 
come “set” aud hardened. Then some of 
us go into the garden, pick the vegetables 
and these are got ready for dinner. The 
upstairs work is next done, and tlie du.st- 
ing down. Saturday I go all over the 
hou.se with broom and cleaner, aud this, 
day alone is religiously consecrated to 
“cleaning up.” After the baby has de¬ 
parted at 10 A. M. for his dail.v nap I 
have an hour to knit, sew or do whatever 
little extra task indoors or out that I 
please. At 11 A. M. the oil stove is 
started and on it our dinner for six is 
prepared. The children eat at 11.30 by 
thomseh’os and then go outdoors to play 
again. By 12..30 our own dinner is over, 
and at 1 P. M. the dishes done. The 
baby comes down, is fed and cleaned up 
for the afternoon. By 2 o’clock I am 
ready again to sew, knit, read or help 
outside, as the occasion requires. The 
baby spends his afternoon tied to a long 
rope on the shady lawn. He has never 
known any other way, and is perfectly 
contented and happy with his shovel and 
nail. Incidentally, I need not worry over 
him or wear myself to a frazzle trying to 
keep him amused. The other children 
usually accompany the men into the 
field. At 5 P. M. the children are ready 
for their supper. At G o’clock they go to 
bed. They have played hard all day and 
are glad to drift iuto the land of .sweet 
dreams. Husband and his hired helper 
who boards himself, finish with the milk¬ 
ing by 7 o’clock, and then husband eats 
his chosen year-around supper of cheese, 
crackers, bread and milk, .sauce and 
cookies. I eat at night with the children. 
The supper dishes are washed directly if 
I have nothing pressing to do—but if I 
have they wait their turn till morning. 
We do not have hot suppers in Summer, 
and the dishes are few. Husband, after 
eating, goes hack to the field, and I have 
n long evening to myself. So i)ass our 
day. On every day but Saturday I try 
to get my housework all done in the morn¬ 
ing so that extra outdoor work or war 
work can be freely done in the afternoons. 
When I finally retire I am tired bod.v and 
.soul, for not oue moment has been idle— 
hut I have also aceomplishwl a lot of 
worth-while things. In auother letter I 
am going to tell my little “labor-savers” 
and “heel-savers” which make much work 
far lighter. 
THE FARM AND DAIRY WOMAN. 
