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promotion to a professorship in the science of bread-making We 

 trust, that no mother in Hamphire and Franklin will ever allow a 

 daughter to escape initiation into all its mysteries, or to go forth to 

 the duties of a new home, Avithout a thorough training and practical 

 acquaintance with this science. We fear that many mothers are in 

 this respect verily guilty. If not guilty of moral wrong, they are by 

 no means irresponsible for some little social disturbances, that some* 

 times ensue. Heavy, hard, sour bread, as the rule and not merely a 

 rare exception, tends to produce sourness and heaviness where it 

 were desirable, that they should never be. For bread, there should 

 be no family jars. 



KEPORT ON RYE BREAD AND FLOUR. 



BY KEY. DAVID EASTMAN. 



The committee on Rye Bread and Flour, found many good speci- 

 mens offered for premiums. There were fourteen loaves of bread, 

 most of which were very white and pleasant to the taste ; exhibiting 

 care and skill in combining the mateiials entering into their compo- 

 sition. Some of the bread would have been supposed to have been 

 wheat, had we not seen it labelled "Rye Bread." 



From the specimens presented, we were satisfied, that some of the 

 housekeepers in this vicinity " are workmen who need not be ashamed," 

 and can suit the most fastidious lovers of Rye Bread. With their 

 tables supplied with such' an article, there would be no occasion for 

 apologies for the absence of wheat. Rye Bread among our fanning 

 population, enters largely into the food of familie- ; and. when 

 properly made of the best materials, contributes to good nature, health 

 and happiness. We recommend, therefore, to all matrons to carry 

 the art of manufacturing good Rye Bread to as high a degree of per- 

 fection as possible ; and to educate their daughters practically, in 

 this most honorable and useful duty. If this branch of domestic labor 

 is thoroughly understood, it is a guarantee, that all others will be 

 attended to in their place. 



