HINTS ON DAIRYING

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Using poor Salt to season good Butter is like using poor Thread in sewing Good Cloth.

HIGGIN'S "EUREKA"

ENGLISH HIGH GRADE

DAIRY * AND * TABLE * SALT

GOLD MEDALS

AND

HIGHEST AWARDS

AT THE

Great Fairs of the World.

		1st Prize	Centennial Ex., Phila.	1876
		"	Ex. Universelle, Paris	1878
		"	Dairy Show, London	1879
		"	Dairy Show, Dublin	1879
		"	International Exposition,Melbourne	1881
		"	International Exhibition, Adelaide	1881
		"	Dairy Show, London	1882
		"	International Exhibition, New Zealand	1882
		"	Dairy Show, London	1883
		"	Dairy Show, London	1884
		"	World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ex. New Orleans	1885

Over $15,000 in Premiums were awarded to parties using HIGGIN'S "EUREKA" SALT in their Prize Butter and Cheese at the principal Dairy Fairs in the U.S., carrying sweepstakes and highest awards wherever put in competition.

"EUREKA" SALT has no equal in Purity, Strength, Flavor, Uniform Grain of Crystal, Keeping Quality, Perfect Dryness and cheapness. Give it a trial and be convinced of its merits.

THE HIGGIN "EUREKA" SALT CO.,

(OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND)

Office, 116 Reade Street,—NEW YORK.

JERSEYS—One Ton 2,000, Marpetro 3,352, Boma 4,834. Property of Beech Grove Farm, Beech Grove, Ind.

Copyrighted in the year 1885
BY T.D. CURTIS.

PREFACE.

It was intended by the Author to publish an exhaustive practical work on Dairying. But his time was so occupied by other matters that he was compelled to abandon the idea. Much of the following pages was written while traveling, the intervals of waiting at hotels and railroad stations being devoted to this work. But on reperusing the chapters as they appeared in the columns of the Farmer and Dairyman, and making slight additions, he has concluded to give them to the Dairy Public in their present form, believing that they may be of some assistance to the tyro, and perhaps afford a hint, here and there, to the dairyman of more experience who wishes to keep abreast of his fellows in the march of progress. This little book is not intended to supersede any other work on the subject, but to play the part of an auxiliary and present in a condensed form the pith which the reader might not have time to get from a more elaborate volume. The favor with which his "Hints on Cheesmaking"—now out of date—was received, gives the author confidence that his later effort may serve to fill a place that now remains unoccupied. Providence seems to have selected him as one of the laborers in this field of education, and he conscientiously devotes a portion of his energies to the service with envy toward none, but entertaining the hope that his mite may not be unacceptable among so many larger contributions.

HINTS ON DAIRYING.

HISTORICAL.

Dairying runs back to a period in the development of the human race of which we have no record. Man early learned to not only slay animals and eat their flesh, but to appropriate to himself the food belonging to their young—a trait of selfishness which he has not yet overcome, and even manifests by preying in various ways upon his fellows. We have in the world large classes who add nothing to its real wealth, but live and luxuriate on the fat of the earth by drawing the results of labor from the toilers through cunningly devised schemes of finance, business and government.

IN ASIA.

Away back in the dimness of antiquity, of which even tradition gives no hint, comparative philology shows us that a civilized race, now known as the Aryan race, dwelt on the steppes of Central Asia, and that the ox and the cow constituted their chief means of subsistence. They lived in simple peace and innocence, their language having no terms of war and strife. But there came a time when separation began and migration followed. They were scattered to the four corners of the Eastern Continent, and their descendants now constitute the progressive nations of the earth. The parent nation appears to have utterly perished in giving birth to the nations of the future. No trace of it is left, save the remnants of its language inherited by its children; but they furnish indisputable evidence of a common parentage.

AMONG THE JEWS.

Our earliest authentic records