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obtain butter in large quantities and of good quality. 

 But may not the fault sometimes lie with the dairy 

 woman ? Is her business so simple as to be always 

 well understood ? You begin to suspect that I doubt 

 that some of you have perfectly mastered the art of 

 butter making. It may be an ungallant doubt ; but 

 listen to the particulars of one case in point and then 

 judge whether I can help doubting. As stated to 

 me, the facts are these. One of our famers, the 

 summer before the last, employed successively and 

 for short terms each, three different dairy women, 

 Here the cows, the pasture, the cellar, and all the 

 dairy apparatus were the same ; and how was the 

 result ? One obtained seventeen pounds of butter 

 per week, the second twenty-three, and the third 

 twenty-seven. Such facts should induce many of 

 you to vary your processes and note results. 



Philanthropy, looking forward, sighs at consequen- 

 ces which must follow from changes that are taking 

 place in the employments and habits of your daugh- 

 ters. Circumstances beyond your control have thrown 

 the healthful spinning wheel and loom upon the pile 

 of rubbish in the garret. Housework and the dairy 

 do not furnish sufficient employment for all the fe- 

 males. Either mothers or daughters must resort to 

 something else by which to contribute a share in the 

 support of the family. It is too commonly the case 

 that the daughters resort to some occupation that is 

 not sufficiently active and invigorating. The needle 

 is taking the bloom from many of their cheeks and 

 vigor from their frames. The evil is augmented by 

 that mode of dress, (1 ought to use a harsher term,) 



