92 Old Bays on the Farm 



BUTTER LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE 



You needn't tell me, you modern up-to-the-min- 

 ute creamery men, with all your tubes and testers 

 and scientific equipment, that you can produce 

 more tasteful and appetising butter than the dairy- 

 maid of olden days, even if she did lick her finger 

 and use it as a thermometer. I 've eaten her butter 

 and yours, hers first, and I just will not go back 

 on my first love. 



Time was when it was the laudable ambition of 

 most every woman on the farm to be the champion 

 butter-maker of the community. And what rivalry 

 developed along about Fall Fair time in the good 

 old days. There used to be dozens of contestants 

 in the home-made butter section at exhibitions of 

 farm products. And those fine pioneer women 

 housekeepers made cheese as well as butter, and 

 good cheese, too. I've eaten it and, when one eats 

 a thing and likes it, and lives long and happily 

 afterwards, he'd be an ingrate, indeed, if he did 

 not cherish such a recollection in memory's store- 

 house. 



A WORD ON SKIM-MILK CHEESE 



I am referring, however, to new-milk cheese. 

 Why, is there any other kind, you ask. Well, 

 there used to be such a thing as skim-milk cheese, 

 but I feel that I am right in stating that it is now 

 entirely off the market. 



