THE STORY OF A POUND OF BUTTER. 





Professor H. H. Dean. 



Mrs. Boss and her neighbors agreed to hold meethigs throughout 

 the winter, when not busy. " They also decided to discuss buttermaking 

 at the first meeting, and this is what a man who understands cow talk 

 heard them saving : 



Meeting No. i. The first to speak was Mrs. Brindle. She said 

 that it was her candid opinion that all his talk about " pedigrees " and 

 " butter-blood" did not amount to very much. She thought that if her 



owner would look around he 

 could find, among her friends 

 plenty of good cows for mak- 

 intr butter, which had not anv 

 papers to show their breeding. 

 For her part, she considered 

 that blood was of no account. 

 What she wanted was a cow 

 that could do something. 



Mrs. Black - and - White, 

 known in higher cow circles by 

 the name of Mrs. Holstein- 

 Friesian, or Mrs. Holstein for 

 short, said she considered that 

 it was better to give a large 

 How of milk, so as to have 

 plentv of skim-milk for the 

 calves and pigs, as well as what 

 is used for buttermaking. 

 Some of the other cows 

 thought that there was too much to handle to get a pound of butter from 

 suchmilk. Mrs. Canadian said that some poor farmers could not raise 

 enough feed to satisfy the ap- 

 petite of the Drevious speaker, 

 and she believed that a small cow. 

 which is a sm^ll eater, is best for 

 a poor man. 



Mrs. Shorthorn, who also be- 

 louiJ-.s to the high class in cow 

 societv, argued in favor oi the 

 cow that gives milk to drink, and 

 butter to eat ; and if not satisfied 

 with that, her owner could turn 

 her into beef. Some of the mem- 

 bers remarked that combined ma- 

 chines never work so well as 

 special ones. 



Mrs. Ayrshire said that, as the discussion was on butter-making, she 

 had little to say, though some of her relations were just as good for 

 butter as any cows. 



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Fi^-. 34. Holstein. 



Fi"'. 85. Shorthorn. 



