THE CAUSES OF FAILURE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 155, 5 July 1894, Page 3

THE CAUSES OF FAILURE.

The causes of failure are not far to seek. In nine cases out of ten where farm butter turns ont bad, it is made under conditions that render the production of good butter. ' : "*~ an utter impossibility. I have heard of milk pans being set nnder the bed, but I Y_ suppose no one in this country is so cramped for space. Yet the milk in a - great many cases is handled in a fashion no ? less senseless. The so-called dairy is too often a small ill - ventilated structure, "within which aU.the objectionable effluvia of the milk and' surroundings is confined. The stockyard is a filthy pi ce, where the milk becomes contaminated, to Btart witb, and the cream is kept pent up in a olose jar 7- orotber vessel till it becomes aorid in flavor. -7\ Then of ten enough the oream jar iB left to simmer by the fire for a few hours before churniog to oatoh up the flavour of oooking vegetables, &o. The operation of ohurning ... is prolonged to hours, and when the butter does eventually oome, it is worked up into a peaty mess by overohur-dng, and all the , evil odours originally in the cream are firmly looked up within the mass. When the butter -is churned in this oondition it is impossible "to remove the buttermilk by any amount of y vafhing ; and to make matters worse, in emulation of the bntter factories the farm wife in many cases makeß up her butter without addition of a particle of salt. The article then placed npon the market under the name of fresh butter would, to most palate. , appear worthy of a different designation If the bntter .had a fair proportion of Bait worked into it as soon as it leaves the I fchurn, : the process of putrefaction might be so far arrested as to make the product fit for table use to those not too particular as to taste. Much of the farm butter, even Y, if eatable when first made, becomes punJ" "rently rancid in a few days' time, especially f mixed up promisculously in the store . bntter box with other samples possessing ;.'. an -ancient and fish like smell. Considering- the enormous waste of what ought to j - be palatable human food throughout the length and breadth of the land, the time .has arrived for itinerant dairy instruction*