THE NEW EARTH 



any report of their use as far as could be 

 found. It is very likely that if ever the cities 

 of the country control the handling of the 

 milk sold within their limits, the sand filter 

 will be used as it is in Europe, providing some 

 better means has not by that time been found 

 for purifying milk." 



In some ways, the most important change 

 wrought in dairying during this period of the 

 New Earth has been in the freeing of women. 

 If there ever was a distressing white slavery 

 it was that which bound the farmer's wife and 

 daughter to the -churn. Before this period, 

 many farmers' wives were expected, in addi- 

 tion to all their other duties, to care for the 

 milk, attend to the skimming of the cream, 

 churn the cream into butter, and laboriously 

 "work" the butter until it was ready for mar- 

 ket. Not infrequently the milking of the cows 

 fell to their lot also. The work was heavy and 

 hard. It aggravated ailments to which over- 

 worked and underfed women were liable. It 

 made life a burden. It shortened many a 

 woman's life. And, sad fact that it was, the 

 product which she turned out, after the most 

 faithful labor, was often, through lack of 



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