C HINTS ON DAIRYING. 



on the steppes of Central Asia, and that the ox and the 

 cow constituted their chief means of subsistence. They 

 lived in simple peace and innocence, their language hav- 

 ing no terms of war and strife. But there came a time 

 when separation began and migration followed. They 

 were scattered to the four corners of the Eastern Conti- 

 nent, and their descendants now constitute the progressive 

 nations of the earth. The parent nation appears to have 

 utterly perished in giving birth to the nations of the fu- 

 ture. No trace of it is left, save the remnants of its lan- 

 guage inherited by its children; but they furnish indis- 

 putable evidence of a common parentage. 



A MONO THE JEWS. 



Our earliest authentic records about the dairy are of 

 the use of milk and its products among the Jews. We 

 are told, in the 8th verse of the 18th chapter of Genesis, 

 that when Abraham entertained the three strangers, "he 

 took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, 

 and set it before them." Moses, in his song, as recorded 

 in the 23d chapter of Deuteronomy, 14th verse, says of 

 Jacob that the Lord, among other things, gave him to eat 

 "butter of kine and milk of sheep." Deborah, who de- 

 clares in her song that "the stars in their courses did 

 fight against Sisera," who was entertained and slain 

 by Jael, says of the murderess (Judges, 25th verse and 8th 

 chapter) "he asked water and she gave him milk, she 

 brought forth butter in a lordly dish." In the 17th 

 chapter and 5th verse of 2d Samuel, the writer tells us 

 that David and his people, after the battle in the wood of 

 Ephraim, were given ''honey and butter, and sheep and 



