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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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387 Mr. King. In the hot weather I use more water, in cool weather none at all. Milk set upon Sunday morning thus cooled, was good to skim Tuesday, and the butter as good as October butter, whilst that set without cooling soured by Sunday night. The interest in dairying will increase, and cheese to a certain extent will take the place of meat. CURTIS—I would impress the idea that butter must be kept away, when made, from all offensive smells. KING—A good butter maker once brought me some butter that was very offensive. I found on inquiry that he had shot a pole cat going into the cellar where the butter was kept. I put the butter in a dark corner of the cellar and kept it many months, and the odor disappeared. LAWRENCE—There is cause for complaint against our Chicago dealers. They sell our best cheese in the New York factory boxes. The second rate is all Illinois factory, and the third rate is Illinois dairy. SEARS—I think if gentlemen will make the best cheese it won't go into New York boxes. The locality has to take the general character of the product. KING—All good butter should be recognized as such, wherever produced. Adjourned. WEDNESDAY EVENING—7 o'clock. SAMUEL EDWARDS, of LaMoille, occupied a few minutes in a talk on HANDLING EVERGREENS. I have had a good many years' experience with evergreens. Growing them from seed in ordinary seasons on our prairies is rather difficult. A wet season, like the last, is better; but as a rule, those who are inexperienced had better buy their trees. To grow evergreens, soil that is about one-third sand, with some mold, should be used. The seeds should be covered once or twice their diameter. They should be sown early to prevent their "damping off." This arises from excess of moisture in hot weather. We sow on dry sand to check it. Sow the seeds in beds four feet wide ; about two pounds of the seeds of the European larch, or of the pines, to the square rod. Cover the young plants
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