Miscelaneous.

Southland Times, Issue 8063, 18 July 1885, Page 4

Miscelaneous.

A Cationi Fact.— stays Prof. Heath In tb* ' American Dairyman :— H Let a drop of r>- i milk fall in a glass of pare waler .«s»h ~Kilkp?speTry aiffieminatesito^rr— if the wnterlbecow that yielded ' ihrpngb.t'b 6 withcaif, bntif itsra>»* tQa t milk v n°* class as it fells,un' ac bpttota of V M But UtUrof p ' t^ c wate r^nd prod^es {ffV - , milky cloud, the co» is prrg- & a« specific gravity and vise dity.of •abmtoo«--i»Sk being beawx than wate? S rrtaine the diop of nvlk and causes it to sink." How He Made "Gilt-Edged" Batten-A Berkshire County (Massachusetts) (farmer writes *be Scientific American how.be mates quirk celling and high-priced hotter. It has 2ommoDsense truths in it. He says : -"My object has always been to make the best ' bntter--Jiot the most profitable neceisanly, but the best. Having this object in view, I have been compelled to discard oil meal, and thus reduce the quantity of my bntter atd tbevnlceof the mannre. I havejb'en obliged to take the cows out of all basement ' ceH«r.«,*ndhavßcbcsiiquently received less butter for a given amount of food. 1 have been forced, instccd of dropping the manure jtotp a convenient cellar below the cows, to give up this ccllarjahd wheel maiiure into a - «hed^ I have been ipbligftd to discard deep Betting and to content myself with the open, : shallow method, which is more expensive, and requires more attention, and returns le« bttter. I have bren obliged fc> reject all feed* except corn, wheat, hay, beet*, and carrots I have been oblged to give up usin« ih€ milk of cows that have calved too recently 01 too remotely* I b*ve for a dozen yeari csrof Uljr and faithfnlly tried to maka good butter— as good as it copld ba made. This has plwayg been the first consideration ; profitableness has always been secondary. The letult has been for many years this butter h««'brooght a h r gher price than any butf ec in tha tJoonty of Berkshire, where to much pood butter i« made, and it has taken the fi r st prizeoTer Ihe coanty. It has been in Krch constant demand at R:xtj>five cent* a jKurjd the year through that whea making 100 pounds a week there havj been unfilled or 'ers for twenty-five to thirty pounds more '