Rural School Leaflet 



871 



better to churn at least every two days; even though the quantity is 

 small, if mild, fine flavor is desired in the butter. 



There is a great opportunity for the farmer of New York State to 

 obtain high prices for his butter if the quality is right. In order to have it 

 right, everything- surrounding the manufacturing process must be abso- 

 lutely clean. The cream must be well cared for, and the butter must be 

 put up neatly and be attractive, '^'^''hen this is done, the consumer will 

 have less difficulty in securing good, reliable butter for table use, and the 

 producer will find a more ready sale. 



In the pasture 



" I wonder that Wilson Flagg did not include the cow among his 'Picturesque Animals' 

 for that is where she belongs. She has not the classic beauty of the horse, but in picture- 

 making qualities she is far ahead of him. Her shaggy, loose-jointed body; her irregular, 

 sketchy outlines, like those of the landscape, — the hollows and ridges, the slopes and promi- 

 nences; her tossing horns, her bushy tail, her swinging gait, her tranquil, ruminating habits, — 

 all tend to make her an object upojt which the artist eye loves to dwell. The artists are for- 

 ever putting her into pictures, too. In rural landscape scenes she is an important feature. 

 Behold her grazing in the pastures and on the hillsides, or along banks of streams, or ruminat- 

 ing under wide-spreading trees, or standing belly-deep in the creek or pond, or lying upon 

 the smooth places in the quiet summer afternoon, the day's grazing done, and waiting to be 

 summoned home to be milked; and again in tlie twilight lying upon the level summit of the 

 hill or where the sward is thickest and softest; or in winter a herd of them filing along toward 

 the spring to drink, or being 'foddered ' from the stack in the field upon the new snow, — 

 surely the cow is a picturesque animal, and all lier goings and comings are pleasant to behold." 



JOHN BURROUGHS 



