American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . ation. In churning, a dog, sheep, or goat is sometimes em-ployed as a motive power in operating the churn. It is wellknown that either of the animals mentioned soon learns torun a churn and run it steadily,—the combination being acheap and durable power in the dairy. The Tartars are said to do their churning by putting/-/ \ - \ the milk in a sheep-skin bottle, which they tie to the sad- OPEN VIEW (IF SWING CHURN, die, and take a brisk gallop for an hour or two; on return-ing the
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . ation. In churning, a dog, sheep, or goat is sometimes em-ployed as a motive power in operating the churn. It is wellknown that either of the animals mentioned soon learns torun a churn and run it steadily,—the combination being acheap and durable power in the dairy. The Tartars are said to do their churning by putting/-/ \ - \ the milk in a sheep-skin bottle, which they tie to the sad- OPEN VIEW (IF SWING CHURN, die, and take a brisk gallop for an hour or two; on return-ing the butter is made. This principle is the same as that of our best modern churns, viz.: agitation of the milk in a vesselin which the contents are dash-ed from one side to another tobreak up the globules. It isthe principle of all the dash-less churns. The peculiaraction of these churns p r o-duces the butter in small glob-ules, as above mentioned, andin this condition the buttermilk can be drawn off andthe cold water or brine intro-duced into the churn, andthe butter thoroughly washedand made ready for
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