FARM NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 2

FARM NOTES.

A BUTTER MIXER AND MOULDER. The necessity tor packing articles attractively in order to catch tie customer’s eye and enlist his interest has boon driven home to British linns very strongly during recent years. This is a held in which the Americans excel, inasmuch as they have learned that the pleasing external appearance of an article generally doubles its salt. British merchants have followed their example, and to-day the majority ot articcs can be purchased in, a tastefully packed manner. But if there is one commodity more than another in which there is great scope for improvement, it is butter. The shopkeeper invariably gives the customei a depressing looking mass, which no Mclf-rcspccting housewife would think of pairing on tiro table. Many a shopkeeper, selling an inferior article, has secured greater trade than a colleague vending the best produce, jnsi because he knows how ‘To put it up

in an attractive manner. A maexune nas now been placed on the mark t whereby butter can ho moulded ami weighed in the form of a circulai drum, a rectangular brick, or a roil, cleanly and appetisingly, and in any desired quantity, from a small pat oi half a. pound weight to a chunk ot two pounds. The machine can he used by hand or power according to the requirements of the vendor, and will turn out the weighed and moulded article at the rate of from four hundred to seven hundred and twenty pounds per hour, according as to whether the drive is manual or mechanical. It should he a useful machine for dairies, and appreciably increase the demand for an article ol local production. It can he applied similarly to margarine and lard. SORE TEATS IN COWS. Dirty hands for milking cows cause much of the trouble. While there is a multitude of causes for sore teats, it is safe to say that in tire great majority of cases the trouble can he traced directly to the soiled hands of the milker coming in contact with a scratch or injury on the teat, which the animal might easily have gotten in the pasture ; it might also be said that in a large measure the troubles associated with both the udder and the teats might be avoided by proper attention.

Cleanliness in grooming, and keep • ing the udder and teats free from soil, and particularness on the part of the milker in keeping his hands clean and soft, instead of rough and still, are very, important items.

it takes but a few minutes to wash and wipe the udder and teats if found soiled in the 'morning. The washing and wiping,dry with a soft cloth will relieve the strain'upon th'c cow’s udder if full, and she will give down her milk -more- readily in consequence. A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN FARMER In the vicinity of Moose Jaw a woman farmer is the active head of a profitable, farm of nearly 2000 acres. Before engaging in farm work Miss Hillman was a newspaper reporter, but she had a longing for the western prairie, and, with the small capital slie possessed, she went .into the country with her mother and young brother, and invested in Canadian land. She had everything to learn, for she knew little of farming, but to-day she ranks as one of the large graingrowers, and recently refused a position on the Directorate of the Crain Growers’ Association. Miss Hillman says that what she has done can he done by any gill working on a small salary. From small beginnings her land grew. > She was originally U> miles to the nearest railway, hut now there is a station within easy distance.