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Category Archives: Dairy
Friday – Finding Space in Our Small Dairy – July 1903
Three of us sat round the dairy sconces discussing where would be the best place to put our cream. Our dairy is just about a third of the size it ought to be. It is a comparatively new building too … Continue reading
Tuesday – Maid and Silent Milking Machine – June 1903
The butter is beautifully stiff this morning; the cream in the pots stood at 52 1/2 deg., the dairy itself at 53 to 54 degrees. Customers are sending for pots to get filled for winter while the price is low. … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Diary, Farming, House
Tagged butter, early milking machine, Farming, maids, Scotch, scots, scottish farmer
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Wednesday – Butter Tasting – May 1902
We felt pleased with our butter when 121lbs were weighed out of one churn this morning. We are the more pleased with the quantity because the price has continued high all spring and is at present higher — 1s 2d … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Diary, Farming
Tagged butter, butter making, churning, journalism, The Scottish Farmer
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Thursday – Golden Butter Temptation – April 1905
On churning days the children are exceedingly busy helping — so they fancy — to carry pails of buttermilk, scrub dishes etc. The golden butter is a sore temptation. Many times have their fingers to be slapped before they learn … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cows, Cumbria, Dairy, Diary, Farming
Tagged butter, butter churning, churning
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Sunday – Despoliation of Primroses – April 1901
A cold wintry, wet morning. One of the hard things about farming is that one is always on duty. On a dairy farm, at any rate, if the women of the family take charge and assist through the week, they … Continue reading
Friday – Problems of Meditating Hen – April 1901
Cleaned the dairy to-day, and got on so well with it that, in a pleasant vision, one saw the whole place renovated in a few weeks without the need for troublesome extra help. Set a hen to-day, and she is … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Diary, Farming, Hens
Tagged Astrononmu, Farming, hens. dairy, Super Nova
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Thursday – Trivial, Frivolous but Interesting – April 1901
It is only the most trivial events of one’s life that can be chronicled in a diary. If what follows seems frivolous to some, my excuse is that others have said they like this sort of thing in print, and … Continue reading
March 1903 Monday: Calf Like a Petted Child
The sick calves are quite recovered which leads us to think that some hurtful microbe was making mischief. One of them at intervals throughout the morning kept up a loud, hungry bellowing. On inquiring what was the matter, I was … Continue reading
March 1903 Friday: Feed the Calves
Dreamt last night (the old diarists always chronicled their dreams) that I was one of the four hundred guests at the “little dance” given by the king and queen at Buckingham Palace and had a waltz with Mr Balfour. Why … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Cows, Dairy, Diary, Family, Farming, Hens
Tagged Balfour, Buckingham Palace, CAlvers, Keir Hardie, Lord Hugh Cecil
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