Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1914 — Bitterness to Milk. [ARTICLE]

Bitterness to Milk.

Bitterness of milk may be due to a peculiarity that sometimes occurs toward the close of the milking period, particularly so In the winter time on dry feed. oows under such conditions give milk of a peculiarly bitter flavor, for which no cause or remedy can be assigned. In regard to the trouble In churning, the difficulty probably comee from the small size and hardness of the fat globules, together with an Increased viscosity of the milk. Greater care should be taken In ripening the cream, and pains should be taken to secure a sharp, development of lactic add in a reasonable time. The cream should be (kept at a uniform temperature as near fifty degrees as possible until enough Is secured for a churning. It should then be warmed up to about seven-ty-five, or In extreme cases eighty degrees and kept as nearly as possible at that temperature until it is sharply add which should be in about twenty-four hours. Field and Farm.

Half a million grouse and nearly half a nrißlnn partridges ase killed