RURAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 2

RURAL NOTES.

One English method of packing butter is to put it m cylindrical lugs of inushn, which are placed into a mould for the purpose. These bags hold about 21b, and when failed are tied tightly and p.ickcd away in tubs, pails, or wks containing bi me. It is s»id that the buttei will absorb no additional salt, is free from atmospheric exposure, and entirely safe from change save so far as it may occur internally from ripening. This ripening is due to the change of lactean, or milk sugat, to lactic acid, and this into buturic acid. Butter packed thrs is eaid, by » con e>pondent of the "Convention Breeder," to keep ]>erfectly sweet for almost any length of tune. Such butter is supplied to the students at Oxford and Cambridge, the bdgd being long and about 2in. in diameter when tilled. The former is con- \ enient for cutting off in slices for home or restaurant use. The New York Experiment Station has made extensive expenments with brewers' grams as food for milch cows. Two Jersey cows weie fed on all the brewers' grams they would eat and then given hay. Tho g rain-, were conducive to the flow of milk. When fed to excess or with grains badly decayod, bo that a, full lation was not eaten, tho weight of the animals decreased ; but fed judiciously the cow» kept in good condition with an increased flow of milk. Hrnco it i» concluded that grain-, aiea valuable feeding material for maintenance of both flesh and milk when fed v\ith a small quantity of hay. The average results do not indicate that brewers' grains are detrimental to the quality of milk. But so far as the experiment went, it appealed that brewers' grains made the milk harder to churn. In respect to the taste, flavoui, and appearance of tho milk, and also as ieg*rds keeping quality, no difference betw een the hay fed or the breweis' giains fed milk vvas noticeable, no" as between tho milk fioin the experimental cows and th.it yielded by the remaining cows of the herd. Tha conclusion must, therefoie, be that, so for as trial indicates brevyer's grains ma healthful, valuable for milch cows, but that allowing them to become putrid is a mi&t.tke, as preventing the full feeding «4f« 4 f tho animal, and thus being counter to economy. The trial also indicates very .strongly tint the putuditv of the food was neither mjuiious to the cows, otherwise than as stated, nor injurious to the quantity of the milk for human consumption.

A number ot additions have been made to tbe lists oi entries at Mr J. i>. Buckland's saks at C.imbiidgc, to-d.ij, .indat Ohaupo in fuesday. Mr A.O. Hughes, Cambridge, makes an uuuouncement in our special column. lhe Rev. H. Dcwsbury is announced to deliver a lecture on " Torn Hood " in th<" schoolroom, Ohaupo, on Wednesday next. The proceeds towards lining Presbjtenan Cburch. Mr J. S.Buckla.,d offers a reward for tbe recover} of a collia dog. lenders are invited for cleaning the Cambridge district public school up to the 9tt) M,utu.