126 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Butter dallying, conducted -with intelligence and zeal in all its 

 details, made a business and science of, will furnish an income suffi- 

 cient to satisf}' the reasonable demands of any one, and afford the 

 means to hire additional help upon the heavier work of the farm and 

 in the farm-house. Thus the daiiTman will feel that his time is not 

 lost, but that he is in his proper place when he devotes the time re- 

 quired in the dairv-room to the assistance of his wife in extracting 

 from the cans of ripened ci'eam the lumps of golden butter. 



ludeed, there is no reason wh}' the dair}' farmer should not con- 

 duct his business with less labor and have more leisure time than he 

 who pursues crop or mixed farming, for in his case the land is nearly 

 all in grass and forage crops, which require comparatively little 

 work. And thus the means and opportunities are ajfforded for higher 

 mental culture, for more neighborly intercourse, and greater benefits 

 of social life. 



The enthusiastic 3'oung Kentuckian, when boasting of his native 

 State,' claims for it, — the richest bluegrass pastures, the finest 

 thoroughbred cattle, the fastest horses, and the most beautiful 

 women in the world. While we cannot allow his claim in full ; 

 while we deu}- that our sisters have superiors in point of beauty in 

 any part of the land, j-et the question presents itself, in what can 

 we pi'oudl^' claim that we excel? We have gained a national noto- 

 riety in producing some of the finest horses. Our herds of blooded 

 cattle have no superiors. We have flocks of sheep with which no 

 critic can find fault. Of all these we are justly- proud. Let us labor 

 to elevate all our flocks and herds to equalit}' with these samples, 

 and by our works refute the charge, that the agriculture of our 

 State is of low standard, — that she exports only crude materials. 

 Let us induce our sons and daughters to remain at home and apply 

 their intelligence and skill to the transfer of their raw material to 

 finer forms. Instead of sending hay from the farm to market, let it 

 be used to grow herds of Jerseys, A^Tshires, and vShorthorns. And 

 then our brothers and sons, that do go out from us to business and 

 homes in distant lands, may turn their thoughts to their native 

 State with the pride and satisfaction that upon her green hills and 

 in her fertile valley's, beside her cool springs and babbling meadow 

 brooks, are a people of culture and refinement, who are devoting 

 their physical and mental energies to the production of the nicest 

 luxury that ever graced the table of civilized man, — Golden Butter. 



