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Scientific Butter-making

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
September
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Tlie milk stands thirty-six liours before it is skiinmed, and, after tlmt of the evening lias been received, our Perditu, like an excellent clerk, filis out her return for the day. She has printed blanks which give the names of the cows as they stand in the stable. Two columns are ïiiled for morning's and evening's milk, and the weight of milk given by eaeh cow is recorded as we have said. The disposition made of the whole quantity is then noted, and the dairy is charged with its proportion, when deduotions have been made for the house, the families of the men and the young calves. Such a report is filed daüy, and so complete is the system that it takes only a few honrs at the end of the year to tabulate a full statement of the 365 days. The cream is strained or filtered, by whieh a thorough homogeneousness is secured, and without which it is inrpossible to obtain all the butter except by a seeond clmming. The strainer in this instance is a cylindrical can divided into two compartments by doublé bottoms, the upper one having two tube-like sieves with conical mouths, into which two "plungers," worked by a pump-handle, fit. The cream is poured into the upper compartment, and the "plungers" force it through the sievcs iuto the lower compartment, in which it arrivés ready for churning. The churiiing is done twice a week, in a Blanchard factory churn, and, the temperatnre beiug 62 deg., the butter apears in about íorty minutes. The next irocess is known as "working,"whii'h is altogether done by a machine, in quaniities of thirty pounds at a time. The machine consists of a tum-table in the 'orm of an exceedingly flat truucated cone and a eonical grooved presser. Between tho revolving cone and the presser the butter passes, and is crushed and crushcd again imtil all the bnttermilk is forced out of it, and discharged into a pail at the outside edge of the turn-table. The crank that causes the revolutions is attended by an assistant, while Perdita hei'self .supervises, dredging in the salt, and taking care that the working is not overdone. - V. TT. Kideinij, iri Harper's Mngasine for

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Michigan Argus