THE DAIRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1440, 24 September 1881, Page 4

THE DAIRY.

Seven Points in Milk Setting. 1 —To make the Guest flavoured and longest keeping butter, the cream must undergo a ripening pioee^s by exposure to the o.xj»on of tho snr while it is sweet. This is best done while it is using. The ripening js very tiudy when tho temporatuie ib lov. r . 2. Alter cicam becomes soui, the moie iipenmg, tho moie it depi eu.itc-,. The sooner it is then skimmed ,uid chui nod the better, but it should not bp chinned while too new. Tho best tune toi 1 skimming and churning is just V'foic acidity becomes apparent. 3. Cieuu makes better butter to rise in cold air than in fold water, but it "will rise soonei in cold w.itei, and the milk will keep .sweet longoi. 4. Tho deeper milk is set, the less an ing the cream gets while rising. o. The depth of .setting should vaiy with the tempeiature ; the lower it i--, the deeper milk may be set ; the higher, the shallower it should be. Milk should never bo set shallow in low tempeiaxtue, nor deep in a high one. Setting deep iv cold water economises time, labour, :uid space. 6. While milk is .standing for cieam to lise the puiity ot tho cream, aud consequently the fine flavour and keeping of the butter, will be injuicd if the surface of tho cieara is exposed fieely to air much warmer than cie.im. 7. When the cream is colder than tho buiunmdinsr air, it takes up moisture and impurities from the air. When the air is colder than the cream, it takes up moistuic and whatever escapes iioni the Ptcam. In the former case the cieam puiifie^ the surrounding air; in the Litter, the air helps to puiify the cream. The selection of a cicamer should hinge on what is most desired — highest quality, or giedtest convenience and economy in time, space, and labour. — iY. /. Country Join nul.

1 If \kdly :i provincial town at Home of ■ any &i/o nowadays lacks a small colony of "• " colonials.' 1 The aio acquiring a, dis1 tinctivo character at Oxfoid and Oanibiidgc, but seems to be a glowing centre for'them. I Thirty-one years ago, Curtis Barrett, of Strait ord, Veunont, thrust into the ground , a balm or gilead &prout which he hud been . using for a cattle-whip. It took root and [ giew, and now measures eighty-two feet , m height, and three feet in diameter. Ay action for divorce has been brought in Ameiica by Mrs Agnes Robertson Bouoicault, against her hnisband, Mr Dion Boueicault. The judge has awarded the 1 petitioner alimony at the rate of £600 a yenr jj< iiffmtc ht<\ Silk firhb came from China, and the Chinese .still have many important secrets connected with it unknown to Europeans. Iv a good year they send as much as i!;, 000,000 worth of law silk to England .ilono. The " hanks," or hooks, as they mo pilled, anivo with c.ips made of a Miiylu cocoon. This is dune by a process unknown in Kuiopc. At a icfif>nt Sunday-School anniversary meeting m EnglaLd the superintendent tf.ivo c.uh m holiir a. picket of 10 vmities of (lower sued-, and offered a pmo dt a hoiticultmal c\hibitiou, to be held m the following summer, for the best flowers giow n fiom setd ptcbented. Tin 1 Sathfilh n< mi says that there was lately on exhibition in Boston a fish caught about twelve miles fiom the Isles ot Shoal-, by Wallace Wiight, of the iislnng schooner Jennie P. Phillips, iron) Sw ,un|i"?cott. At the time of its capture it m.\s i; sft long, and weighed 2,4301u3. In lt-i .stomach wcie found a codfish weighing .->0ll)., two smallei cods and two coots. It had a larcje mouth, containing seven low --of sliaip teeth, and in general apjx'aiance Mas somewhat like a shark, but what is most singular is the fact of its being uncommonly well supplied with lespimtoiy oigans. It had not only a mouth, but gills, nostrils, and blowholes. While on exhibition at Lynn the fish was examined by several scientific gentlemen, but no one has been able to classify it. As on indication of the rapid strides with which sui^ar growing: progresses in the northpin districts of Queensland, the Biisbane font tir mentions that 'a gentleman representing the Courier Sugar llcfiuing Company of Sydney recently started from Brisbane for the Herbert Eivcr for the purpose of forming n largo plantation and factory in that , district. The gontlemen referred to has been longa resident on the Herbert, and it is expected that under his direction his company will invest about £500,000 in that district within the next two years. The company are also contemplating another investment of a similar character in the disfciict, as we loijrn that Mr Forrest, of Messrs Parbury, Lamb and Co., is now on a visit to that ' place with' the view to neenre 10,000 acres of land there for sugar growing purposes. 'There is quite , a ( rush, of .capitalist? into the sugar industry.' ,' ' , '