Heating Milk For Winter Setting

Heatin3 the milk of small dahïes in Winter is very necessary where the temperature of tho milk room is ranch below sixty degrees, for thin bodies of milk wjll raise very little oream with the temperature at liftv degreos or below. Heathig the inilk tb 130 or Uü degrees will canse nearly all the eream to rise while the temperature is falling to tiftv d('rr'es. C'ream rise.s faster while the temperatura of the milk is Eallinii. If heated milk is set slx to ten inches deep, in a room at a temperature of forty-tive to tifty degreës, it will take several hours for the temperatura f the milk to iall niiiety dejirees, and ;he cream will principal ly rise dnriíií this time. Uut heatiug milk in winter serves other important purposes. Heatng is a purifying proeess. It drives off all bad odors or taints it may have taken rom the condition of the fodder or odors of the stable. All dafrvmen are not aware of the danger of tainting the milk, in winter, from the cows stand - ng in an impure atmospliere. or of eatng mouldy fodder, or drinking water rom a well that lias receiVed the drupjings of the barn-yard. lleating putiöej he milk from all thee taiuts, or from a turuip or cabbage ilavor. It must be et, however, after lieating, in a pure atmosphore. It is found, also, that the ream Irom heatefl milk churus ranch asier in winter. TIn orean shonld be churned within twenty-four to thirtyi. hours after skimming and should lot stand more than thirtv to thirtv-six ïours be'ore skiniming. Milk is apt to )ocome bitter by long standing in winer. It is supposed tliat our oorrespondent kee.ps his cellar olear of vegetables, as these wuuld so charge the air with vegetable adoro as to taint the cream and spoil the botter. - National Live Stock Jon mal. - An old Maine farmer lias reasoned out the cause of the Kennebec Rivér being loYcr this ye;r than it was ever knovvn before: it is because so tnuch ice was taken out of the river last winter! - Too greatcarelessness, equally with exeess in dresa, multiplies the wrinkles Of old age aud niakes its decay the more conspicuous. - There is a romance in figures. A voung man met a girl, Ier, married der and took her on a wedding 2er.