DAIRY SKIMMINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 6

DAIRY SKIMMINGS.

MoVEMHIsT IN Xl £ls BUTTGH, TjRADH. — A ! Dunedin firm has contracted with the Henley Dairy. . Factory Company lor the supply of 2,0001b of butter per month for twelve months from October 1, in 71b tins, at Is Id pc j r lb neb cash, deliveied in Dunedin. The same firm also oilers this factory Is per lb for any .surplus butter tlicry may havo after delivery ot the forecoing 2,0001b poi month.

Rknnj;t. — In last month's Fahmkii we replied to a correspondent inquiring on tho subject of rennet. Perhaps he and others mighh read with interest the following on tho subject from a practical faim cheese maker :~" Rennet should bo saved in winter. It is the stomach of young; animals, calves or shcop generally. When taken out of the animal it is split open and the contents emptied oul. It is (stronger il not washed, but the practice fcOums too uncleanly tor adoption. vv c always had it rinsed out quicLly in cold water ; filled with salt for a day, then stretched on a frame, and hunej up in a cool, dark place to dry. Finally put in a paper bag and kept haiifiin«j like a sacked ham. If it had to be saved in summer it was kept, in strong pickle. A piece about as big as half your hand put to soak over ni«>ht in a pint of water we usually used for twelve gallons oi milk of which we got a ten or twelve pounds cheese."

Ciikksu Varnish. —The sumo writer gives the following recipe tor making this ;u tide : — " Boil or me) l a pound of butter and. two ounces of beeswax in .some cheese colouring, into this mix u teacupful ot htrongcsfc popper (tea, white, of black pepper), tor uayenne or red pepper is not ollenhive to infeect^, and atUacth rats. Tlii^ butter and \va\ will lise to the top, and when cold can bo melted and btruined into a cup for daily use, for the fiibt week on a cheese, and an occasional renewal afterward."

Miuc Burn.];. — We don"b know exactly whub lcintl of thing is meant to he manufactured by tho following method given by a correspondent ot .in American journal in answer to an inquiry as to how to make butter fiom fresh &weet milk :— "First, take some sour cream and churn ie till you get the butter : have the sweeb miik ieady, ju&b from tho co\\ r , u-iirm : pour the buttermilk out, and pub tho butter back into the churn, then pour in the bweob milk, adding a handful of salt bo each gallon uf sweeb milk and churn as u*>ual, and nearly all the milk will go to butter. Take it out and ball it. Such butter docs not keep well in summer, but is good in w inter.

Mlluol'Unl D.vniy Piionri'j; Show. — The awards in connection with the special f>how of dairy produce at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition were made on November 3rd, and resulted, to far ab New Zealand exhibitor 4*4 * were concerned, as follows : — Butter: Reynolds ami Co., Cambridge, take the first prize ; New Zealand Dairy Co., the second. Cheese: Messrs Way to Brothers, of the Omata Budge Dairy Factoiy, l-Jore, Insfc; King, second; Knlcland, third. Honey: Hopkins, Hayr and Co., third. Olive oil and pickled olhes : Dr. Logan Campbell, commended.

Soru and Swi'et Cream ron Ciiithxing. — Science and the besb practice would seem to be on the t-ide of churning s\vcet,says the JS~oi-th Bikini Agricullin hi . The late Dr. Voelcker took strong ground against churning cicam sour. He laid as much stress uoon ha\ ing cream sweet when it is churned as upon having it clean. Common pen^e would f>ccm to coincide with Voelcker. That milk, when it has turned sour, is started on the road to decomposition, is not questioned by anybody, even the advocates of sour cream. What ad\antage it can bo to the stability of butter fats to hold them for a time, either long or short, mingled with a mass of decomposing animal matter, in what ever stage of decomposition it may be, common scn?e i« unable to understand. Either the sweeefc cieain or the sour cream theory must be at fault. Both cannot be light. Theie is, however, an old adage that "the tiuth lies between extreme.-." Possibly there may be a compromise between these opposing views, and that it will be found in the end that cream befoie churning requires a^e, or upening, but .should not ciuite reach acidity.

Kich AXD I'oor Milk. — The American Cultivator say.s :— There is a great natural diiieience in cows with regard to the richness of milk they give, and this is only partially modiiicd by feeding. Jersey cows make yellow butter and a good deal of it, according to the quantity of milk, even in winter. If the feed be dry and poor they will not give so much. A cow that naturally gives thin, poor milk may be made (o give somewhat better milk Ivy giving her rich food, as cornmeal or oil - meal. I'iobably if this wa-s continued while a cow is bearing a calf the progeny will inherit this tendency to put more milk into the cream pot. In Lhih way our large milkers may in time be bred as equally remarkable for butter-production. There is a hint in this fact also against neglecting the feed of cous while they are dry and near dropping their caff. It might make trouble for their bags to feed rich or succulent food at this time, but it is undoubtedly the best way to develop good animals tor the dairy either for milk or butter.

Guested 1 . — Guessing, says a writer, at the tetuperatuie in the dairy, or more accurately perhaps never thinking of it at all, has played the mibchief with dairying Milk should be kept at a certain temperature, and cream churned a certain tempera tuie, and unless there is care in this matter, the best results cannot bo achieved. A thermometer does not cost much and is valuable.

Tin, Da ik\. man's I> wum'KK.- In Germany thu dairyman's daughter takes pait in almost everything that a girl can hue ccfesfullv do, say-; .1 \ liter. She is the sciibc of thp otahh^bment, keeps a I'egister of the cou.-> ;md (ho amount of milk that each cow \iel.N tl ,ily, and by tasting tests the quality 01 tho milk. If the fanner has no daujrhlet hi.i fiau must do tho work. If without a fiau he must do the work himself ar.d is expected to look out for a liau if ho would have his dairy properly conducted. Good Milkkur. — Faithful milkers are very important features in a successful d.dry. Careless and cross milkers will .soon reduce the amount of milk usually given by a well-treated cow. The law of , kindness cannot be better applied, for eood results, than in a herd of dairy cows. It pays to be gentle in our treatment of them, especially just bofore and during milking time.

Oi the Auckland horses sent to India, 120 have been sold, and the Government are still selecting;. Four shillings per bushel i 3 being paid in Waikato for next season's wheat, to bo harvested in lTobruavy next). The worst kind of education.— To be brought up by a policeman. Sunflowers are used in Wyoming Territory for fuel. The stalks, when dry, are as hard as maple wood, and make a hot lire, and the seed heads with tho seed in are said to burn better than the best hard coal. An acre of sunflowers will fiu-ni&h fuel for one &tove for a y e*u .