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difficulty was, that the butter had absorbed all the odors of the 

 store, and there are those here who know that the odors of an 

 old-fashioned grocery store were somewhat rich. It is the diffi- 

 culty of transportation therefore. 



Mr. Hyde says he makes a portion of his own butter ; but 

 those of us who purchase our butter must take it for granted 

 that we must labor under the same difficulty as those who pur- 

 chase their fruit and vegetables. You cannot get anything 

 from the farm to market, and through the market into the 

 mouth of the consumer, precisely as good as it is when it is 

 used on the farm where it is grown. Everybody knows that 

 vegetables brought from a distance are no more the vegetables 

 they were when they started than chalk is like cheese. 



Mr. Hyde. Can't we have a better butter ? 



Dr. Loring. We have more good butter than you think. 

 The difficulty is in getting it from one place to another, and 

 in getting it through the hands of the middlemen. We must, 

 therefore, exercise our own ingenuity in selecting, or else re- 

 turn to the difficult and somewhat extravagant business, as 

 some of us know, of keeping our own cows and making our own 

 butter. 



Mr. Hyde. That I am going to do. 



Dr. Loring. I have made in different parts of Massachusetts, 

 arrangements for the delivery of butter in the most rapid man- 

 ner ; but I never could get it from a farm in Western Massa- 

 chusetts, for instance, into my own house in a perfectly good 

 condition. 



Now, in regard to feed. That is another thing we must sub- 

 mit to. We cannot have everything as we would have it. We 

 cannot make a new pasture out of an old one. We cannot 

 make all hay-mows alike, and meal gets heated going through 

 the markets. It is the same difficulty which attends the trans- 

 porting of butter from one place to another : the wonderful 

 faculty that the animal economy has of taking up the flavor of 

 different articles of food. It is so in the human system ; it is 

 eminently so in the domestic animals ; and it comes in nowhere 

 so readily and so rapidly as in those portions of the animal 

 economy known as the milk and butter producing organs. 



So we must expect to submit to these evils. We can, by 

 exercising a little ingenuity, get rid of them in part. Feeding 



