IP ura[ BUTTER AND CHEESE DISCUSSION. At the New York State Fair, held at Saratoga Springs on the last week in Sep tember, Tuesday evening was devoted to a free discussion of matters pertaining to the d a i r y, Mr. S. S. Whitman, of Little Falls, opened the subject with a prepared address, treating mainly the uncleanly practices, and the evil results flowing therefrom, which m ight be observed in many dairies of the country. ,Mr. W. observed that some dairy men do not deem it necessary that cheese shall be clean, in order to sell, but they se em to have adopted the motto, " the more there is in it, the more there is of it." The speaker thought all dairymen would concede that others might be filthy, though they would not call their own practices in question. Milk, in all its relations, re quires more care than any other food pro duct of the farm. Cleanliness in every s tage of its management is necessary to success; the construction of barns—the a ppliances for milking—should insure clean._ liness. We would not wonder that people are sometimes poisoned with cheese, if we considered all the uncleanliness attending the making. Factories do not obviate this evil, but rather encourage it. President Gould said the facts mention ed by Mr. Whitman had long been known to the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, and it had been deemed an absolute necessity to present them to the public. They are a cause of great complaint among cheese dealers. Mr. McGraw, Tompkins Co., contended that a good article of cheese or butter can not be made from the best grass and water in the gauntry, unless the milk is rightly taken care of. He deemed what had been said on the subject of cleanliness in the dairy of great importance. Had bought a great deal of dairy product, and never handled any with loss that was well made. Milk should be put in the pans clean; no milker should put his fingers in the milk, to wet them when stripping, and the udder and teats should• be cleaned with water and a cloth before milking. The dairy-house shoal be clean—the pig-sty distant—and no stench near it. Packages should be clean. Cleanliness is at the very root of dairy prosperity. But a fine article of but ter and cheese cannot be made where there is not soft water and fine grasses. Geo. Geddes, of Onondaga, thOught the idea of carrying a towel and water into the barn-yard, among the cows, was certainly a new one. Mr. Faxton, Oneida, believed that good butter and cheese could be made in the limestone regions. Had a favorable experi ence of twenty years in using butter made on limestone land. Mr. McGraw, Tompkins, thought the last speaker's taste for butter was educated to a false standard. The test for good bat ter is the market. The first question the dealer asks, is " where is your butter made?" If Mr. F. sent a lot of butter to market, part of it made in the soft and part in the hard water regions, he would find his re turns greatly favoring the soft water butter. Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock, said excel lent butter was made in limestone regions, but the difficulty is, it will not keep ; it be comes rancid in three months. ' Soft water regions make the best long-keeping butter. The older the pastures, too, the -better the dairy. The true dairy region of the United States is very limited. As good cheese cannot be made in the hard water regions as in the soft. In fifty years, good dairy lands will bear higher prices than any other whatsoever. Geo. Geddes, Onondaga, said that the question relative to the merits of the hard and soft water regions for dairy products, had been agitated a long time and never settled ; nor would it be now. Many good butter regions are limestone; on the. Mo hawk Flats—a limestone region—the best of butter is made. He did not believe such fine discrimination could be made in dairy products. The market is the best test. If the dealer wants to send butter once or twice round the globe, let him take the risk. Mr. Thomas, Herkimer, said that one cause of bad butter and cheese was the allowing of too long intervals between milk ing, and using impure or diseased milk. Farms that grow large crops of red clover cannot produce good butter. If milk will boil without curdling it is' good. If the cows eat red clover the butter wont keep; it is the fine, old grasses that produce sweet and aromatic butter. Mr. Hawley, Onondaga, thought that the qualities of butter depended a great deal on the packages. These should be soaked with salt water to prevent the wood from drawing salt from the butter. Cellars in which butter is kept should be free from all foul smells. Vegetables should not be stored in the cellar with butter. In taking it to market, care should be exercised not to expose it to a hot sun. For salting, Ashton and Onondaga Factory are the only kinds fit to use. Thought the representa tions of dirty milkers too strong ; it was wrong to publish such statements to the public. 14r. Burgess, Vt., stated that the water is hard in his section, yet good butter and cheese are made. The grass is mainly timo thy. Farmers are turning their attention from wool-growing to dairying. Fancy sheep may pay better, but not wool-growing proper. He could make, three pounds of butter to one of wool; sold the wool at 55 and the butter at 45 cents per, pound. Considered whey valuable for fattening hogs. lir. Thomas, Herkimer, said the bes way to prepare firkins for packing butter is to put buttermilk in them, let it remain two days, scald, and then fill with salt. He complained that some factories in Herkimer were managed dishonestly, thereby entail ing loss on the farmers. He thought cheese factories were bound to go down, for it could be made cheaper at home, and there is no cheating then. Besides, the de mand for large sizes had changed, those weighing from forty to sixty pounds being now called for. A cool temperature has much to do with the production of a good article; 60 deg. is the proper temperature. If too warm, cool by surrounding the churn with ice, but put nothing in the cream. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 186 G. Mr. Hawley thought that in sending butter to a distant market, it would be well to surround the packages with larger ones containing sawdust or salt. These sub stances are non-conductors, and the heat would not affect the butter. An ounce of salt to a pound of butter is the right quan tity for salting, but care should be taken not to work th butter when it becomes pasty or salvy. The hand should be kept out of the butter as much as possible; it should not be washed too much with water; work it as soon as churned, and again the next morning. Mr. McGraw, Tompkins, said that in making butter and cheese, three pounds of the latter can be made to one of the former. Nine and a-half pounds of milk make one pound of cheese. 'ate is not much differ ence in the profit of cheese and butter making. The season makes a great differ ence in the quality of butter. Of course, that made in some months is better than in others. The food of cows has a great influence, as the milk is flavored by what they eat, hence the sweet grasses and soft water are the best. In reply to a question, the speaker said that hogs would thrive well on whey alone—without even grass— but they must be sold before cold weather comes. In cold weather they will not drink enough whey to keep them thriving. When cows are worth one hundred dollars, it pays to raise calves of the best milkers. Both parents of the calves should descend from a long line of good milkers; we cross our cows with Short-horn bulls; such do the best for us. Mr. Ralph, Oneida, believed that profit able feeding of whey depends much on its age. It should not be fed less than twelve, nor more than twenty-four hours after being made. The .sugar of milk is the article of value in whey for feeding pur poses ; if it gets too old, this turns to an acid, and hogs eating it sour, run down and die. THOROUGH ' CULTIVATION. The probabilityas, that if the exact truth could be ascertained, we should find. that quite one-sixth of the crop capacity of all our cultivated fields everywhere is annual ly thrown away in clods. Some surly old cynic, a great many years since, sneering ly applied to us delvers in the dirt the ill natured epithet of "clod-hoppers." Well, the old vinegar cruet, whoever he might have been, was not so wide of the truth after all. There are more " clod-hoppers " among farmers than gentlemen among cynics. A great many farmers, intelligent upon many points, make serious mistakes in preparing soils for crops. Something beyond deep ploughing and liberal manur ing is requisite to produce the best results. Something far short •of the extravagant range in either, ought always to give bet ter satisfaction. It is ploughing at the proper season—when the land is in the best condition, thus working its thorough pulverization. Many a fertile acre, after ploughing, re-ploughing and planting, car ries through the season, locked up in clods from the size of a grape-shot to that of a tennis ball, more fertility than,Jiberated in the spring by better disintegration, would have added one-sixth—often a fourth to the yield, and saved a useless expenditure for manure to an equal amount. The mis take begins usually in ploughing land when it is too wet, thereby packing it like a pressed brick, so that a large per cent. of its fertility is sealed up, requiring a waste ful supply of after labor in counter-plough ing, harrowing and rolling in order to pul verize it, and after all, in too frequent in stances, the work can be but imperfectly accomplished, and there is so much of the soil absolutely thrown away. grinttifit. IRON AND STEEL. From an interesting and valuable article, rather historical than scientific, on " Iron and Steel," in the July number of the London Quarterly Review, we make extend ed extracts. It is based upon a work on Metallurgy, by Dr. John Percy, from which our opening extract is taken : COMPOUNDS OF IRON AND CARBON "Of all the compounds of iron," says Dr. Percy, " none are to be compared with those of carbon in practical importance ; and, in' a scientific, point of view, none possess greater interest. The influence of this element in causing variation in .the physical properties of iron is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the whole range of metallurgy. Under the common name of iron are included virtually distinct metals, which in external characters differ far more from each other than many chemi cally distinct metals. Without carbon, the manifold uses of iron would be greatly restricted; and, so far as is yet known, no other metal or mixture of metals could be applied to these uses. When carbon is absent, or only present in 'very small quan, tity, we have wrought iron,- which is com paratively soft, malleable, ductile, weldible, easily forgeable, and very tenacious, but not so fusible, except at temperatures rare ly attainable in furnaces, and not suscepti ble of tempering like steel ; when present in certain proportions, the limits of which cannot be exactly prescribed, we have the Various kinds of steel, which are highly elastic, malleable, ductile, forgeable, weld able, and capable of receiving very differ ent degrees of hardness by tempering, even so as to cut wrought iron with facility, and fusible in furnaces; and lastly, when pre sent in greater proportion than in steel, we have cast iron, which is hard, comparative ly brittle, and readily fusible, but not forgeable or weldable. The differences be .tiveen these three well-known sorts of iron essentially depend upon differences in the proportion of carbon, though, as we shall learn hereafter, other elements may and often do occur in modifying, in a striking degree, the qualities of this wonderful metal. Ours is emphatically the-iron age; aild it may be confidently asserted that no other element has contributed so, largely to the civilization and happiness, and, may we not also add, paradoxical as it may seem, to the miseryof mankind. But let us not for get that carbon has done s its share in this :cod and evil work." PRIMITIVE MODES OF PREPARING IRON. It is probable that the first iron ever made was in the form of malleable iron, highly carbonized in consequence of the manner of its, production. The methods of smelting iron ore to this day practised by the natives of Central Africa, are probably in most respects the same as those adopted by the ancient iron workers. Mungo Park thus desceibes the process employed at Ka-• malia on the Niger :—A circular hollow tower of clay, about 10 feet high and 3 in diameter, was erected to serve as a furnace, being bound round with withes to prevent the clay cracking and falling to pieces through the heat. Numerous tubes of clay were placed near the hollow bottom of this tower, through which air was admitted into the lower part of the furnace. A bundle of dry sticks was first put in, then a quantity of charcoal, over that a stratum of iron -stone, then more charcoal, and so on until the furnace was full. Fire was then applied through one of the tubes at the bottom, and kept up by blowing with bel lows made of goats' skins, until the flame appeared above the furnace. The people who attended kept filling in more charcoal. This went on for three days, when the fire was allowed to go down ; and some days after, when the whole was cool, part of t the furnace was taken down, and the iron ap peared in the form of a large irregular mass at the bottom, with pieces of charcoal ad- i hering to it. The mass was sonorous, and when any portion was broken off the frac ture exhibited a granulated appearance, like broken steel. " This iron, or rather steel," says Park, " is formed into various instru ments by being repeatedly heated in aforge, the heat of which is urged by a pair of double bellows of a very simple construc tion, being made of two goat skins, the tubes from which unite before they enter the forge, and supply a constant and very regular blast." Dr. Livingstone also found the African tribes on the Zambesi well acquainted with the use of iron, and making it after a like simple process. Speaking of the neighbor. hood of Kilimane, he says : " The only other metal, beside gold, we have in abundance in this region, is iron, and that is of excellent quality. In some places it is obtained from what is called the spicular iron ore, and also from black oxide. The latter has been well roasted in the ope rations of nature, and contains a large pro portion of the metal. It occurs generally in tears or rounded lumps, and is but slight ly magnetic. When found in the beds . of rivers, the natives know of its existence by the quantity of oxide on the surface, and they find no difficulty in digging it with pointed sticks. They consider English iron " rotten ;" and I have seen, when a javelin of their own iron lighted on the cranium of a hipPopotamus, it curled up like the proboscis of a butterfly, and the owner would prepare it for future use by straightening it cold with two stones. I brought home some of the hoes which Skeletu gave me to purchase a canoe, also some others obtained in Kilimane, and they have been found of such good quality that a friend of mine in Birmingham has made an Enfield rifle of them."' Dr. Livingstone adds, that on sending specimens of this iron to a practical Bir mingham blacksmith, he pronounced it to be highly carbonized, strongly resembling Sweedish or Russian, and added, that when chilled, it had the properties of steel. Du Chaillu gives a similar account of the native methods of producing , iron among the Fans, who are said to be among the cleverest blacksmiths in Africa. They will not use European or American iron in mak ing their knives or arrowheads, but prefer their own, which has greater tenacity, and in many respects possesses the properties of steel. The Fans have plenty of iron-stone and wood feel; and when they want Ihn, their process is very simple. They build a pile of wood over a hearth in the open air, heap on a quantity of the ore broken into bits, then more wood, and when the pile is complete, it is set on fire. Wood continues to be thrown on for several days, until there are signs that the iron has been smelted, when the whole is allowed to cool, after which they find the iron in a lump on the hearth at the bottom. This is subjected to a tedious process of repeated heatings and hammerings, until at last, by patience and labor, a very excellent piece of metal is ob tained. The process adopted by the natives of Hindostan, of Madagascar, and Borneo, is of like simplicity and rudeness. They all ob tain the malleable iron direct from the ore, instead of by the indirect modern process in which cast iron is first produced. It is probable that a like primitive method of producing iron was adopted in the infancy of most nations. 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It has cured Scrofula in all its manifold forms, Ulcers, Cancers, Salt Rheum, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Consumption, Heart, Liver, and Kidney Diseases, &c., &c. Circulars will be sent free to any address. Price $1 00 a bottle, or 6 for $5 00. Prepared by Dr. H. ANDERS, Physician and Chem ist. For sale by J. P. DINSMORE, 36 Dey St., New York, WILD CHERRY HALF A CENTURY. With the most Aetoniehing Success in curing Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, In fluenza, Whooping Cough, Croup, Liver Complaint, Bronchitis, _Difficulty in Breathing, Asthma, and every affection of the THROAT, LUNGS. iSr. CONSUMPTION, which carries off more victims than any other disease, andwhich baffles the skill of the Physician to a greater extent than any other malady, often YIELDS TO THIS REMEDY. when all others prove ineffectual. Rapid in Relief, Soothing in Effect, Safe in its Ope- IT IS UNSURIASSEDI while as a preparation, free from noxious ingredients, poisons, or minerals ; uniting skill, science, and med ical knowledge : combining all that is valuable in the vegetable kingdom for this class of disease, it is INCOMPARABLE! and is entitled, merits, and receives the general con fience of the public. SEYMOUR THATCHER, M. D., of Herman, N. 7r.. writes as follows : " Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry gives universal satisfaction. It seems to cure a Cough by loosening and cleansing the lungs, and allaying irritation, thus removing the cause instead of drying. up the cough and leaving the cause behind. I consider the Balsam as good as any, if not the best, Cough medicine with which I am acquainted." The Rev. JACOB SECHLER, of Hanover, Pa., well known and much respected among the German popu lad ln of this country, makes the following statement for the benefit of the afflicted : Dear Sirs :—Having realised in my family impor tant benefits from the use of your valuable prepara tion—Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry—it affords me pleasure to recommend it to the public. Some eight years ago one of my daughters seemed to be in a de cline, and little hopes of her recovery were enter tained. I thenprocured a bottle of your excellent Balsam, and before she had taken the whole of the contents of the bottle there was a great improvement in her health. I have, in my individual case, made frequent use of your valuable medicine, and have ak ways been benefitted by it. JACOB SECHLER. g .. 5461.1;63 45 0 147,309 89 169,981 95 217,504 58 52,969 18 20,000 00 65,824 14 10,229 00 Price One Dollar a Bottle. For sale by J. P. DINSMORE, 36 Dey Street, New York. SETH W. FOWLE & SON. Proprietors. Boston. And by all Druggists. GRACE'S CELEBRATED SALVE Cures Cuts, Burns, Scalds. Grace's Celebrated Salve Cures Wounds, Braises, Sprains. Grace's Celebrated Salve Cures Cluspped Elands, Clailb Grace's Celebrated Salve Meals Old Sores, Flesh Wounds, &e. It is prompt in action. removes pain at once, reduces the most angry-looking swellings and inft mations, as if by magic—thus affording relief a complete cure. Only 25 cents a box. (Sent by mail for 35 cents. For sale by J. P. DINSMORE. 36 Dey St., New York. S.W. Fovpis & SON, Proprietors, Boston. and bi all Druggists, Woos and Country Stores. BellitinaL SYRUP IDE OF IRON, And by all Druggists WISTAR'S BALSAM HAS BERN USED FOR NEARLY AS A MEDICINE.
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