FARMER'S WIFE AND THE BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 5

FARMER'S WIFE AND THE BUTTER.

', SUGGESTION THAT BORE FRUIT. 'In the Palmerston district recently (writes our travelling correspondent) I saw a farmer's i wifo churning at the back of the house in 'as shady a place as.she could find. It was 1 a very hot morning, and the lady seemed to feel the exertion very trying. She told > me she had been at the churn for ail hour ■ and a half, and thero was still no sign of i butter. I told her that it was very strange, I as in such weather she ought to have got : the butter in twenty minutes or half an hour. 5 She was using a barrel churn. I asked how ! much cream sho had put in, and she said it t was three-quarters full. I suggested that sho i should take a portion out, leaving the churn 1 not more than half full. I went across the - paddocks to see her husband, and was away t about three-quarters of an hour, and when l I came back, I asked her how sho had got r on. She said that she had not only got the t> butter from the first lot, but the cream was n just on the turn for butter with a second 5 filling. s Hero was a case where, for lack of knoivo ledge, many hours had been spent in the en- % deavour to get butter, which made churning s an. irksomo task. This lady told mo that it o sometimes had taken fivo or six hours to n make tho butter. So there is a hint for y anybody elso who has trouble with the butter. Do not put too much cream in tho churn. If it is half full thero is ample. Of course this refers more particularly to the r barrel typo of churn.