IMPROVEMENTS IN DAIRYING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1800, 19 January 1884, Page 3

IMPROVEMENTS IN DAIRYING.

A nkw method of treating milk has been introduced in some of the Vermont dairies, w Inch is attracting considerable attention. The milk is, put into several horizontal cylinders of iton, aiound which '-team is turned until the milk is uused to a temperature of 105 degrees. The steam is then turned off, and cold water is introduced, which biings the milk down to .1 temperature of 40 degrees, which requires about four hours' time, at which point the milk will have deoi eased in volume eight and a half gallons to ereiy thousand pounds of milk. At the same time the cooling profess is begun air pumps, connected with the milk eylindeis are set in motion, c\h<uifating the air till the gauge shows a pi insure of thirteen pounds, uhen the opeiation ceases, and the milk icbts in the vacuum the iciiiaiiiiiig pa it of the twenty-four boms. The benefit claimed to be deiived fiom the \ acini in us the freeing of the milk fiom offensive odonis and desti active <.'(>in,s, and the seeminy of a moie lapid and pi'.tect separations of the eicam bv the le no\;il of the piessure of the atmo^plicie At the end of twenty-foui houis the milk i\ diaw n away fiom the ueaminto ,i\at foi lr.ikinj,' cheese, and is tieuted as in the oidmaty ' aeul jnoces? ' Meantime the cieam is dunned ~,\\ cct, and the buttei milk addod to the <.kinuu"d milk foi the- cheese. The cie.un is chut nod at .">$ degines, stands twenty foui htnu-., ami ii'thcn ifwoiked .md packed The butter is folomed, the bnUui-nialv«> ie maikin^ th.it ' tliceieam lvnii: iais. d in the d.nU makes colouiiny nii'es-,iiy ' l'.y Hu-> method they si-t'tue fuun the same 100 pounds of milk, loin and-a-lialf pounds of buttei and nine .uid a half pounds of cheese. Sonic an ilysos of Piofessoi Sibin, ot the LTnnciMfy of Veunont nnd Agiicultuial C'olh'gi 1 sliow, n lemaik.ible separation oi eicam, only 1 \ per cent of fat remanuiiL' in the hkiin milk.

li<i«>i' — In acony about hi-, polished inlaid flooi : '• Hulu t 3'ou bettoi come 0.1 the eaipet, old fellow? lin afiaid you will slip, you Know"' (inest— with a Mooden Joy- "01), it'b all light, old follow, tluuiks ' Thetc'b a, nail in the end, you know . ' 13v\os. — Mis U. cut lici little daughters hair, to make a, " bairn." Siu- \ eymg hei own woik, she " Bessie, ye-steiday you looked as if you li.nl no sense ; to d;iy you look as if yoiu mothei had none." A YoKKSiruth man, whose well lately caved in, eontmed to make the authoiities suspect tiiat he had inurdeied a man and pufe his body at tha bottom vi t)ie well, ami toolv things eas} .it the ].ul wlnle they dug Ins well out for him. He is now tiling the tow 11 {or faUe impii^onment. —Baltimore News. In Tin Krrnm v —" Mamma, vhcie's t\w lead that you put in those biscuits>l \Yhete"s the what?" " The lead, nunim,), ' Why, what do you nn.au l>y asking bucli a question ?" "0, uuthin' ; only papa said he was coin' iislnn this niomin', and wanted some of \ our !)is cmts for sinkeis"."— Biooklyu Kiglo. Tjie Beilin eoi respondent of tin- Dailv News sns that, considering tlie Diaeonie measures taken by the Gei m.in Grneinment against the iinpoi tation of Ameiicinpoik, it is veiy strange that a ino^t alarming outbieak of ttichonosis is >epoited fiom Saxony. In some 10 Milages ncaily 400 peisons, including cntiie families aie pio&tiated by the teniblc disease. Deaths aic omming daily, and o\er .50 eases are stated to be bejond hope, while tlie plusieians evpect still further spicading. The police are aeti\ely engaged in searching foi the origin of the epidemic. The Quenn lecently inspected a laige ring made by "Mr J W. Benson of Old Bond sticct, for the King ot Siain. It will lie used by his Majesty once a ycai for loligiovis ceremonies as head of the 13uddhistb in Eastern India. Itisbulvvcd to be the laige.st tliafc ha*- ever been made. The centie stone, wlncli i'-of gi eat lustre, is one and a quarter inch in diametei, anil is enchblod by a mby, emeiald, sapphne, and five other stones, cut caboclion bliapo. Tlie mounting is \eiy light and elegant, though stiong, and embodies emblems of the mystic faith ot Buddhi-m. lau'URK. W\Tin ron C\rn,r,. — A lather animated coiiespondencc has gone on lately, in which many of the w liters take up the standpoint that, because cattle in their expeiience have fiequently ai>peared to prefer impuie water to iiuie rliinking water, theiefoicno pains should be taktn to supply them with puie water. Tliis 1 isafoim of the a-giiment "posthoc, prop tor hoc," which practiealas well as scientific men will be disposed to regaid with the utmost di'-ti nst. When cattle aie provided with water in tank's, agutultuiists too often foigetto supply them v. ith, at the same time, a hbeial supply of rock salt It is injudicious and euiel to keep cattle without free access to salt. In then desne for siline food animals will 10am far, will dunk the most impuie fluids, and ■« ill eat eat tli That is a hint which \ cry piactic.il men, such as Mr Heim.ui Biddell, who finds the scientific view of the dcleteiious effects of sewer-water on cattle highly amusing, would do well to consider in their treatment of cattle. — Biitish Medical Journal. Amkuicax Wheat.— Speed}' relief fiom the competition of Ameiic.in "wheat glow cis is- in store for desponding English fanners, if we may believe Piofessor Clifford Richardson of tlie Washington Dcpaitment of Agiicultuie, Mho declares that the gi am of his country is rapidly deteriorating both in quality and quantity. An analysis of over 2000 specimens shows that, compared with European and other wheats, that grown in Ameiicaisseiiously deficient in albuminoids, the most nourishing of the component parts. The giain is pooiest in the Eastern States, a regular gradation of improvement taking place, going westward till the facific coast is approached, when, again, there is a marked falling off in quality. Add to this the fact that the American wheat crop is steadily decreasing in quantity, and some idea can be formed of how rapidly the coil of the countiy is becoming exhausted by yearly giaincropping, shallow ploughing, and light j manuring. California and tlie whole of the Eastern States have ceased to be great wheat producing districts ; the j ground is worn out. The conclusion to which these facts point is obvious. If they are true, we are within measurable distance of the time when America will not be able to produce more than sufficient grain for her own great population ; and the supplies of wheat we obtain from this source will have to be derived elsewhere. No doubt, before the exigency arises Russia will have materially developed her vast resources, and our colonies have turned to good account land now uncultivated.—St. James Gazette. You will do well to furnish your house from Garlick and Cranwell's. They have now the most complete Furnishing Warehouse in Auckland, furnituie to suit all classes, good strong, and cheap. They have Tapestry Carpets irom 2s 3d per yard, Brussels from 3s lid per yard. Linoleum from 3s 9d to ss, Oil Cloths from Is 6d to 4s 6d per yard, good 12 feet wide Oil Cloths at 3s Gd per yard. Immense assortment of Iron Bedsteads from Infant*' Cots to 5 feet wide half-tester Bedsteads. Double iron Hed'teads from 255. 4SO Bedsteads in itock to select from. Beddings of all kinds and sues kept in readiness. Dining", Sitting, Drawing-room Furniture, and and a large assortment of Manchester and Furnishing Goods, including a lot of Cretonneg. Book Catalogues lent free to intending; purchasers. Garlick and Cranwell, City 4^l ftaAfo Quepq-ftttet AwcW«w<})

A Novelist's Life.— James Payn, the novelist, lives in one of the most I attractive houses in Mania Vale, London, and spends most ot his time tlicie, except of coiusp, when at his office, H" says that in his boyhood he never took p'aib m any games or spoits, and to this day dosen't know anything about cricket, tuning, croquet, iowiny, yatch ing, hoibckioiv riding or anything of the soit. He dosen't take any lucieation now; not c\ en walking, or going to tho theatre. Leasing hit. house in the moining he goes to the maust cal) .stand — 1 about twnity steps iiom his door — and u'des to Ins office. Fiom ten to one o'clock he wiites fiction, and then walks — one block— to the Refoun Club and takes iuneh with his old friend, William Black. Then he goe^ back and leads MSS and pi oofs until four o'clock, when he returns to the club and plays whist for one hour and a half. Then he ndeh home, dmcfo, doies m his chair, goes to bed and sleeps ten liouis, gets up and takes, brcakhibt, and sbait& oil again on the same loiitine, winch he repeats day after day, with no variation or shadow of tinning. He smoke forty ot fifty pipes of tobacco a day ; in fact, ho smokes constantly, lie w i ites an execrable hand and lias Ins daughtci copy all his MSS. with a type wntoi to send to the pi inter Tjii, ceremony ot di inking to the miMWOij oi the Ptinus Con a nt at Ins obelisk instill ob^cwed at the anniversary of his bn tli.