"With joy she views her plenteous reeking store, 

 And bears a brimmer to the dairy door. 

 Her cows dismiss' d the luscious mead to roam, 

 Till eve again recall them loaded home. 

 And now the DAIRY claims her choicest care, 

 And half her household find employment there ; 

 Slow rolls the churn, its load of clogging cream 

 At once foregoes its quality and name ; 

 From knotty particles first floating wide 

 Congealing butter's dash'd from side to side : 

 Streams of new milk through flowing coolers stray, 

 And snow-white curds abound, and wholesome whey." 



BLOOMFIELD. 



OP all the industrious employments in which women are 

 able to take part, there is nothing to be compared to 

 the management of a dairy for promoting health and 

 long life. Even in large towns the milk-women are the 



