Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it

perform the duties of dairy-women, we might as well have the full benefit of our labor. We, therefore, purchased another

t did she prove more valuable than the black one, for which we had given but $50. For a small dairy, we think the black Welsh cow answers as well, or better, than any other. The price is ve

ery bad. We went into the meadow, and saw the poor creature looking certainly as we had been told, "very bad." We asked our factotum

him a friend, likewise learned in cattle. He went to se

Sheridan's Lord Burleigh. "A sad job, indeed! and you o

ails her

why, she's got t

it is th

in two or three days. You must sell her for what she'll fetch

the 'lung disease' you talk

ll die, su

a cow that is sure to be d

n of yours! You get r

her death into "country sausages," for the benefit of London consumers of those dainties. Our friendly counsellor was very indignant at our perversity in

with the churn for two or three hours, and then the butter was invariably bad. We tried to procure information on the subject, a

e, ma'am, th

ed, "what does

lots of

e of the things on

longer coming in cold weather; and it depends on how long

the reason why we were half an hour in getting it

we put in hot we put in salt, we talked of adding vinegar, but did not; we churned as fast as we could turn the handle, and then as slowl

t was guess-work for two or three churnings, but the discovery was made at last, that we were always sure of our butter in half an hour, provided the cream was, when put into the churn, at a temperature of from 50' to 60'.* [We kept a small thermometer for the purpose of plunging into the cream-pot. If it was lower than 55' we waited till it reached that degree: if th

ather was very cold, placing it on a chair a moderate distance from the fire for about a quarter of an

rselves, find they know nothing whatever of the duties required of them. To those who have several acres of pasture land, of course this little book is all "bosh." They employ servants who know their work and perform it properly; but most "suburbans" require the cook to undertake the duties of the dairy, and unless they are regular country servants they neither do their work well nor willingly. If any lady

concisely as we can, the whole proces