THE FAMILY DAIRY. 



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tion to a liberal supply of milk and cream for the fam- 

 ily during the whole summer. Four-fifths of this but- 

 ter was eagerly bought by neighbors at fifty cents and 

 upwards per pound, giving a very handsome interest 

 upon the value of the cows. 



The farm, a few miles distant, had half a mile of road 

 through it, which was kept in good order, without help 

 from the perfunctory road master and his able assistants, 

 in the same way, and excepting the road track was 

 plowed, manured, and seeded with grass and clover and 

 was mowed as regularly as the fields were. An envious 



Fig. 100. Fig. 101. 



neighbor, who wished to enforce his rights to do as he 

 pleased on the road and wiio drove maliciously through 

 the grass, breaking and tearing it down, was promptly 

 prosecuted and fined for trespass, and taught that the 

 road was owned by the owner of the land adjoining, and 

 the public had only a right of passage over it, and only 

 on the beaten track, and that the owner of the land 

 could use it for any purpose he wished provided it did 

 not interfere with this public easement. Thus one may 

 turn this valuable land to good purpose in growing grass 

 for the family cow and making it into hay or cutting 



