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there were butter-makers in his day, perhaps long 

 before. In the Psalms we find this, "The words 

 of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war 

 was in his heart. ' ' And in the Book of Judges a 

 verse reads : ' ' She brought forth butter in a lordly 

 dish." 



BUTTER DATES FROM 'WAY BACK 



There is no doubt, therefore, as to the antiquity 

 of this form of food but one can only conjecture 

 and speculate regarding the manner of its produc- 

 tion. The wonderful advancement that has taken 

 place in recent years in matters pertaining to 

 dairjdng is almost marvellous. The application 

 of science to industry is not more marked in any 

 of the thousand and one activities of mankind. 

 Judge Haliburton in * ' Sam Slick, ' ' makes this re- 

 mark, ''All the metaphysics in the world would 

 not make a pound of butter." He meant, of 

 course, that somebody had to do some physical 

 work, including churning, before butter might be 

 produced. But the investigations of the scientists 

 have helped a whole lot to make the production of 

 butter and cheese a much easier job than it was 

 even a quarter of a century ago. 



Now what has all this to do with **01d Days 

 on the Farm," you ask. Well, to be candid, I am 

 just trying to lead up to the butter-making meth- 

 ods of the pioneer. In a former chapter I have 

 tried to show what an important animal Old Bossy 

 is in our civilisation. Next after his old ox-team, 



