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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1880)
r The pioneer in making butter on the associated plan in the West is Mr. I. H. Wanzer, now of Oneida, Iilinois, who ranks among the most experienced dairy men of the country. Here are what he considers s'omo of the essentials in but ter making, taken from a paper pre pared by him for the Northwestern Dai rymen's Association, and read at its re cent meeting: Fiftt, we must have clean milk; with out this, butter cannot be made. But ter made from filthy milk may pass, when fresh from the churn; but as the seeds of destruction are sown in the process of milking and the delivery to the factory, the butter soon loses its fresh taste, and is classed as a poor ar ticle. In order to obtain the best results the milk should be cooled, within one hour after milking, down to 65 degrees, and at this temperature delivered at the dairyhouse. When received at the creamery it should be at once brought down to GO degrees, and there kept dur ing the cream raising. If the milk is held at this temperature while the cream is rising, then the cream, when taken off, is just where we want it in temperaturo, and at this point it should be kept until it has taken acid enough to be churned. Avoid all transitions from hot to cold, and from cold to hot. When churned at the temperature above mentioned the butter is firm enough to bo worked with out bringing ice in contact. The prac . tice of cooling cream by the introduction of ice is, in our opinion, a bad one; also the practice of warming cream by setting the vessels containing the cream in hot water. In the hitter case the cream upon the o,utside of the vessel becomes melted, and thereby reduced to oil, causing a Hat, insipid taste in the butter. The habit of some, of setting their cream around the stove in the cheeseroom, should be condemned; the heat is not equalized unless the cream is constantly stirred, and, to add to this, it is contin ually taking up the foul odors thrown off by the curing cheese. ' Wo have in the last two or three years, changed our idea in regard to the con struction of the churn that should bo used. The old-fashioned dash churn, that we formerly used and recommended to others, has many objections. Among them, the greatest is the trouble experi enced by butter makers from the adhe rence of the cream to the cover and sides of the churn ; if the cream is thick, the more it sticks. Now, all that adheres to tho churn is not agitated; in other words, not churned, and, if not churned, islost. It is usually scraped down, when the butter shows signs of gathering. But what becomes of this portion of the cream, which is no small amount in a large factory churn? This unchurned cream is either taken up by the gather ing butter, or goes to waste in the buttermilk. If taken up by the butter, it is worse than lost; it carries with it tho seeds of destruction ; for the union between the cheesy and buttery portions of the cream is not broken; if not broken, it is not separated, and all is incorporated in the butter, where it is sure to work mischief. Another serious objection to tho dash churn is that it re quires three times more power to run it than to run any of the revolviug churns, which, by their construction and motion, prevent the cream from adhering to the sides, and are, therefore, more easily cleaned. I am using, with good satis faction, the square revolving churn. When cream is churned at G2 to 6-1 degrees the butter will begin to gather in little )ellets of the size of kernels of corn or peas. Then the churn should be stopped, and, after standing ten min utes, to allow the particles of butter to rise to the top, tho buttermilk should be drawn of, and clean, cold water added at the rate of one-half gallon to each pound of butter. Set the churn again in jno tion, making about ten revolutions; then draw the water off, put in fresh water, and churn again as before, when the but ter is ready to bo taken out and salted. We use one and one-eighth ounces of salt to one pound of butter. The water used to wash this butter must not be taken from a well that is in any way iniluenced by the washings of tho factory, nor drawn from a wooden cistern. We think that as much butter is spoiled from being washed in impure water as from any other cause. It is of the greatest importance that we use good salt that which is free from shells, scales and dirt; the liner the bet ter in our opinion. Pine salt dissolves quickly and leaves no gritty taste. Our butter'stands twenty hours after being salted, when it is re-worked and packed for the market. If it stands longer it becomes set, and after working, has the appearance of re-worked butter. As to 2)ackage, we cannot always suit ourselves as different markets want different packages. Absolute cleanliness in every depart ment of the creamery is necessary. The accumulation of filth in drains, in cor ners, under stairs, or even in tho imme diate vicinity, outside of tho building, soon developes bad odors, which are taken up by the cream, working sure destruction to the butter. A Noble Thought. -Daniel Webster once said: "The wild flower will bloom in beauty on the field of battle, and above the crushed skeleton the destroy .ing angel of the pestilence will retire when his errand is done the barrenness of famine will cease at last the cloud will bo prodigal of its hoarded rain but for moral desolation there is no revival of spring let impudence, intrigue and corruption triumph over honesty and in tellect, and our liberties and strength will depart forever." Practical Butter Makin Children's Diet. ?ive old women about a quilt: can the pen of one give a tithe of their conversa tion record? Let us attempt but a part of it. Mrs. Green began the tournament. "I liAin't seen ye a month o' Sundays, Miss Walker; where do you koex your self?" "Why, I've ben to hum. 'Tain't real handy to take to baby-tend in' when ye git along in years a spell; but there don't seeui to be nobody else to take care of Bezy's babe but me. Bezy's as per nickity as a woman about the child; he won't lemme give it a speck of nothin' but red cow's milk, an' he's nigh about seven months old, an' he'd oughter set in lap to the table, an' take a taste o' vittles along with us. My land! my children used to set to an' grab things as quick as ever I fetched 'em where they could. Little Jemimy was the greatest hand for b'iled cabbage ye ever did see; an' pork! how that child would holler for fried pork! There wa'n't no peace to the wicked till she got it; she'd ha' ben a splendid child ef she'd lived; but the summercomplaint was dreadful prevalent that year, an' it took her off in the wink of an eye, as ye" may say; allers doos the healthy children. Then my Samwell, why, he was the greatest hand for pickles that ever was; he'd git a hunk o' fried steak into one leetlo hand an' a piokle into t'other, an' he would crow an' squeal. Cuttin' of his stomach teeth was the end o' him ; got 'em too early, was took with convulsions, an' died right off'. An' the twins: well, they favored beans baked beans an' minute puddin'; they was eighteen months old when they died, an' the- eet toast an' cider like good follers only the day they was took sick; we'd hed buck wheats an' tree molasses for breakfast that day, an' I expect they'd eet so much sweet k kinder made 'em squeamy, so't the hard cider jest hed the right tang. Poor little creturs! mabbe 'twas the bilious colic a-comin' on made 'em dry; anyway they was awful sick witli't, for they died a Sunday week, for they was took of a Sunday, an' " Miss Polly Paine, a short, plump old maid, gently interrupted here: she thouhgt Widow Walker had occupied the floor long enough. "But, say, what do ye give it red cow's milk for ? I never knowed there was any great o' virtoo' in red cows." "Snakes alive !" Here Semuth- House, Deacon House's wife, took up the thread of conversation. "I want to know if ye didn't? Why, red's the poweri'ulest thing ! You jest put a red flannel round your throat, an' it won't never be sore; an' a red string in your ears '11 keep off' fever, everybody knows; but then I don't hold to fetchin' up a child on milk alto gether; they won't never make old bones that way. I b'lieve in hearty vittles for everybody. Pie's real hearty ef 3-0 make it good, an' so's cheese, when ye can't git butcher's meat. I b'lieve I couid stan' it the year round on pie an' cheese an' baked beans." "Well, ye see," pottered on Mrs. Walker, who seized a chance to begin again, "Bezy he won't hear to no reason, he claims he knows more about fetchin' irp children than I do spite of my hevin' hed four on 'em; he speaks about their all dyin' off, an' says ho wants his'n to live a-flyin' in the face of Providence, aa ye may say, for we all know folks die by the dispensations of Providence, an' mortal man can't say, 'Why do ye so?' to the Lord; but I don't know but what brother Bezy thiuks he can; he sets dreadful loose to religion, 'specially doctrines an' sech; says he wishes 't Parson Pine wouldn't say sech a lot about 'lection, an' hell, and decrees, an' more about mercy and lovin'-kiud-ness. Land ! I want to know how you're goin' to fetch hardened old sinners like some ye could mention ef ye was a-miu' to an' I guess we all know who they bo without namin' of 'em inter the king dom, ef yo couldn't scare 'em out of their seven senses, a-shakin' of 'em over the pit, as ye may say. They don't mind nothin' but a real scare, and thev don't mind that no great. I feel to wonder real often why sech folks is spared to " JIarj)crs Magazine 1 Itoileii-Egging an Achess. The rare spectacle of an actress boiug rotten-egged was witnessed last night at Walnut-Street Theatre, where the C. L. Graves Combination occupy the boards with the "Four Seasons." During the third act, while George Parker, as Susan Sweetapple, a Yankee dairy-maid, was singing a song, an egg in an advanced state of decomposition whizzed over the pit from the west side of the top gallery and came to grief against a canvas pal metto tree, a few feet from Miss Parker. The audience were startled for the mo ment, and the actress changed color, but did not falter in her song. Half a minute later another egg, similarly disabled, was thrown upon the stage from the east side of the top gallery. The actress was in tensely mortified, and finished her song with great dilliculty, and in a high state of excitement. The audience showed much displeasure at the deliberate insult to the lady, and applauded her to the echo so much so that she was compelled to respond to an encore. In the mean time ushers from all parts of tljp house had gathered to the quarter from whence the eggs had been flung, and a man was seen endeavoring to secrete an egg in his ooat pocket. The fellow was pounced upon and hurried into the street, whon he was given into the custody of a police man, and taken to the Central Station. He refused to give his name or to assign a cause for the oileuce, and was placed in a cell to await a hearing this morning. If the taking of the census had been postponed until green-apple time, in many cases the population could have been doubled up. A Word to Young Men. An able lecturer in the East recently gave the following true points for young men: In order to have any success in life, or any worthy success, you must resolve to carry into your work a full ness of knowledge not merely a suf ficiency, but more than a sufficiency. In this respect, follow the rule of the machinists. If they want a machine to do the work of six horses, they give it nine-horse power, so that they may have a reserve of three. To carry 6n the business of lifa you must have a surplus power. Be fit for more than the thing you are doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If 3-011 are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. How full our country is of bright examples, not only of those who occupy some proud eminence in public life, but in every place you may find men going on witli steadv nerve, attracting the at- tention of their fellow citizens, and carving out for themselvas names and fortunes from small and humble begin nings, and in the face of formidable ob stacles. Let me cite an example of a . man I recently saw in the little village of Norwich, X. Y. If yow. wish to know his name go into any hardware store and ask for the best hammer in the world, and if tho salesman be an intelligent man, he will bring you a hammer bear ing the name "of D. Maydole. Young gentlemen, take that hammer in your, hand, drive nails with it, and draw in spirrtion from it. Thirty years ago a boy was struggling through the snows of .the Chenango val ley, trying to hire himself to a black smith. He succeeded, and learned his trade; but he did more. Ho took into his head that he could make a better ham mer than any other man had made. Ho devoted himself to the task for more than a quarter of a century. He studied the chemistry of metals, the strength of ma terials, the philosophy of form. He studied failures. Each broken hammer taught him a lesson. There was no part of the process that he did not master. He taxed his wit to invelit machines to perfect and cheapen his processes. No improvement in working steel or iron es caped his notice. What may not twenty five years of effort accomplish when con centrated on a single object? He earned success; and now, when his name is stamped on a steel hammer, it is his note, his bond, his integrity embodied in steel. The spirit of the man is in each hammer, and the work, like the workman, is un rivalled. Mr. Maydole is now acknowl edged to have made the best hammer in the world. Even the sons of Thor, across the sea, admit it. Young gentleman, let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your wav. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed oberboard, and com pelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known one to be drowned who was worth the saving. This would not be wholly true in any country but one of political equality like ours. The editor of one of the leading magazines of England told me, not many months ago, a fact startling enough in itself, but of great significance to a poor man. He told me that he had never yet known, in all his experience, a single boy of the class of farm laborers (not those who own farms, but mere farm laborers) who had ever riseu above his class. Bovs from the manufacturing and commercial classes had risen frequently, but from the farm labor class he had never known one. Maiwled Beef. Americans have sue cceded in producing beef sulliciently fat to meet the demands of anv country. Unfortunately, however, for the quality of the beef, the fat aud lean are not well distributed. The fat is in huge masses and is useless as human food. Speci mens of finely marbled beef are rarely found in this country. Undoubtedly our method of feeding beef cattle causes the absence of "the streak of fat and streak of lean" that are desirable. Our animals are for the most part fattened on corn, which produces a large amount of hard tallow that is deposited in masses outside the flesh. The best marble beef is produced by cattle that feed on rich, tender grasses. The best beef known in a London market comes from the mountainous regions of Scotland and Ireland, where the cattle have little or no grain. It was at one time thought that the breed of the cattle raised in these localities was the cause of the marbled appearance and the prime flavor of the meat. It seems now to be settled that the superiority of this beef is due to the peculiar feed of the animals. Corn produces an abundance of fat, but it is not fat of tho right kind and it is not deposited in the right places. It is likely that we have made too much use of corn in the production, not only of pork, but of beef and mutton. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A London paper tells how to make a test to determine whether or not dea'h has actually occurred in case of syncope: For two or three hours after the stop page of the heart the whole of the muscles of the body have completely lost their excitability. When stimulated by electricity they no longer contract. If then, when faradism is applied to the muscles of the limbs and trunk, say five or six hours after supposed death, there be no contractile response, it may be certified beyond all doubt that death has taken place, for no faint, nor trace, nor como, however deep, can prevent the manifestation of electric muscular con tractility. Here there is no possibility of mistake, as there certainly was when the old test was employed. Have Girls Got Any Souls? We do not know as there is any law to compel girls to act differently abou horseback riding, but sometimes it seems as though they took advantage of their young male escorts. It is a well known fact that a girl will not ride on horse back in public unless she has become an . accomplished horsewoman. She goes on uiu uaciv streets until sue nas learned to 1 i- ..1 . 1 it 1 a i sit a horse beautifully, and has got nerve enough to snatch the under jaw off a horse that tries to do what she don't want him to. And when she has got un limited confidence in herself, then she j will ride anywhere, and don't care who sees her, and she looks so independent j antl wide awake, and joli. , that you can I not help admiring her, i hough you an half blind. On the cuiilrary, the aver- age young man thinks he is a korse- t man, whether he has lven on a horse since he rode old "Doll" to plow corn when ho was ten years old or not. And the girls, bless them, often accept the escort of these boys who think they can ride, seemingly just to see the starch taken out of them. A few weeks ago a ! party was riding up the Whitewish bay ' road on horseback at a good round gal lop. There was a girl and a young man. The girl sat on her horno like a queen, and she seemed to let her charger out just enough to keep a neck ahead of the young man. Antl lie was oound to Keep up if it killed him. He sat on his horse like a clothespin, and the horse was a hard rider. The poor young man looked as though he wished he was dead. jvery time his horse s loreieet cunie down on the ground it did seem as though the young man's legs w longer, and that he would have to let out his stirrup straps. He held the reins in his right hand, held on to the ponimel of the saddle with his left hand, to keep from breaking in two, his trowsers worked up to his knees, leaving his leaving drawer tied around his ankles with strings. and his low shoes almost dropped off, ers leg came The strings of one draw untied and the bare leg began to show, and he looked implor ingly in the ear of the girl ahead of him as much as to say, " For heaven's sake, hold up a little." But she was just enjoying herself, and did not seem to realize that she was wearing out a young man that would be an ornament to society anywhere except on a hard riding horse. On they went, until the voung man perspired like a water cooler, while she was cool as zinc, and appar ently as unconscious of the torture she was inflicting on her escort as possible though the twinkle 111 her eye said as plainly as could be, "This young man has been telling me for over a year that he was a splendid horseman, and I am going to make him take it back if I have to carry him home in a market basket!" His necktie comes untied, his watch jumps out of his pocket and hangs dang ling on the saddle, his eyes become "sot," and fearing that his clothes will all be shook off. he gasps, "Elizabeth for God's sake hold on and let me uiivu 11 J ii cujuuuuuu ui 111 dcii : She pulls up her charger with her little finger, and looks at her escort as though he Was interfering with her enjoyment by stopping, and he smiles as though he was sea sick and says it is "such fun riding a horse," while ho tries surrep titiously to get his trowsers to go down by his shoes. Peck's Sun. Organized Emigration. One of Eng land's leading men, the Hon. Thomas Hughes ,j)f London, has given practical attention to this subject, having accepted a position as superintendent of an ex tensive organization of New England capitalists whosepurpose is to plant a large colony upon a suitable and ample tract of land in East Tennessee, in which region there is an abundance of rich soil, and whose inhabitants enjoy one of the finest climates known in the world. We may properly say that organized emigra tion is the only true method for peopling new territory. Persons in the Eastern or Central States should not go by families and isolate themselves and shut themselves off from all pleasant social privileges and enjoy ments, but should band together by hundreds, selecting of the right sort as their new companions and neighbors, such as relatives and personal friends and then purchase large tracts at prices greatly reduced from those a single in dividual would be forced to pay for a single tract, and divide the tract among tho colonists according to the nvestment of each. Then a village could be built at once, from which avenues lined with farms might radiate in all directions, and the church, the school house, shops, etc., be erected at once. Springfield (Ohio) Republican. How They do it in France. Mme. la Comtesse do Tilly had a husband. That husband had afavoiit. The Oom tesse visited the favorit, a pretty little blanch isseuse, and suddenly threw the contents of a bottle of vitriol in her face. She is disfigured for life. The Coni tesse gets off without punishment. The extenuating circumstances were im portant. The woman had for a long time paraded her conquest over the Count, (had imitated the ComtesFe's dresses, and been known as "a petite Comtesse." Further, after the deed was dune and the Countess averred that she did not in the least intend to throw the vitriol in her rival's eyes, by which the latter lost the sight of one eye, but only to spoil her beauty, in which she more than succeeded she interested herself in the woman's recovery, gave her volun tarily ct'SOO, and bore the expense of her illness. Nobody thinks of the little washerwoman. The husband is dis graced. And France, having another sensation for a day, is grateful. , SHORT BITS. There is no suiting the people who de clare that olc ideas are prejudices and now ones caprices. A friendship that makes the least noise is very often tho most useful; for which reason prefer a prudent friend to a zeal ous one. An exchange says: "Good wives are wanted in the Northwest." Surely this is not strange. Is there any place where they.are not wanted? Dressy young ladies have determined to wear epaulettes on their shoulders; but they cannot do it very well with low necked dresses. A Philadelphia paper says that Boston women at Swampscott bathe in white kid gloves and bonnets. This is singu lar; most people bathe in water. It requires a great deal of badness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it re quires ten times as much wit to keep it. A man cannot rip, tear and darn with out being considered ill-tempered and profane. Woman can, however, and there is where she gets the best of man. The average life of a farmer is 66 years. At 65 he may safely begin to re turn borrowed tools, pay old debts, and to ask forgiveness for cheating in horse trades. We should manage our fortune as we do our health enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in extreme ne cessity. After reading that Ramichundar, Ab durrahman Kahn and Nena Sahib have concluded to act together, no sane man will deny that England is in a pretty tight jdace. "Keep Your Heart for Little Birdie" is the title of the latest song. We are glad Birdie is going to let the young man re tain his liver. Women are generally generous. "Is the train behind time?" inquired a gentleman at the station. "No, surr," replied the porter; "it's not behoind toime, surr, but it's just behoind the bridge beyant there." The mind is nourished at a cheap rate, neither cold, nor heat, nor age itself can. interrupt this exercise. Give, therefore, all you can to a possession which ameli orates even in its old age. To detract anything from another, and for one man to multiply his own conven iences of another, is more against nature than death, than poverty, than pain, and the rest of external accidents. "Guns alone can uproot the vile weed of Mormonism," says Dr. Talmage. Now who ever heard of uprooting a weed with a gun ? Might as well talk of shooting crows with a crowbar. In most quarrels, there is a fault 011 both sides. Both flint and steel are necessary to the productions of a spark; either of them may hammer on wood for ever, and no fire will follow. In the chime in the tower of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Lowell, is a bell in scribed as a gift of the late Ole Bull in 1S57. he having appeared in a concert there to raise funds for its purchase. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life, as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to chil dren what the sun is to flowers. To make anything very terrible, ob scurity seems in general to be neces sary. When we Know the lull extent 01 any danger, when we can accustom our eye to it, a great deal of apprehension. vanishes. It was in a Kondout. N. Y.. church that a city minister, after the fine singing of an anthem, said: "Now that the choir have had their little fun, we will com mence the worship of God bv singincrthe W nine hundred and eleventh hymn." The secret of usefulness in life con sists in not haGrerliner for ideal condi tions, but in making the most of actual conditions. No real man or real church ever insists on havinc a rrood chance, nor yet a fair chance, but only a chance. The trouble about takiner a medicine warranted to cure all diseases is that if may not know exactly what is wanted ot it, and in that case it will go foolincr around in the system trying to cure you 01 some disease that you have not got. A city firm engaged in tho provision v w w x business in tho basement of Ouincv mar ket was called upon by a new customer, the other day, who remarked, " I pre sume I can buy goods as cheap here as anywhere else ?" " Oh, yes," replied the senior member, " in fact we are al ways under the market.' The maelstrom attracts more notico than the quiet fountain; a comet draws more attention than; the steady, star; but it is better to be the fountain than the maelstrom, and star than comet, fol lowing out the sphere and orhit of nnipf-. usefullness in which God nl aces 11s Dr. John HalJ. The Boers of South Africa have a verv useful social custom. When a Boer ladv has a daughter in society, and a young man cans to see her, the careful parent sticks a pin in the candle; when the can dle burns down to the pin the young man Knows his time is out; he picks him self up and leaves. Boers of more civil ized society might be managed in the same way. As many persons at this season lay new oarpets, it would be well for them to bear in mind that gaudy, bright hued carpets are a complete mistake, as also are large, geometric or spotty pat terns. A carpet is"a background to all the colors in the room, and it is only by taking care that the carpet is subdued iii tone and the colors well blended that any. too positive predominant hue can be counteracted.