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NEW ENGLAND FARTilER. 



Sept. 



The term grain as applied to butter implies 

 a waxy appearance. Butter which has a good 

 grain can be drawn out. When the grain has 

 been injured the butter will indicate a greasy 

 appearance. In working butter, it should not 

 be ground against the tray, as the grain will 

 thus be destroyed. The buttermilk should 

 not all be worked out at once. In salting, 

 one important point is to get good salt. The 

 salt i-hould be kept in a dry atmosphei'e. The 

 flavor of salt is very much affected by the 

 manner in which it is kept. The best of but- 

 ter will invariably be injured by poor packing. 

 In factories where gilt edged butter is made, 

 especial care is taken in packing the butter. 

 A cellar used for storing butter should be 

 used for nothing else. 



These things may seem small but they in- 

 vaxiably influence the quality and consequent- 

 ly the price of butter. A good article com- 

 mands a good price, and it will pay to regard 

 all the minor details of butter-making as 

 worthy of attention, as on them depends the 

 value of the product. 



CASH VALUE 02" A LABOHINQ MAN. 



We 6nd the following article in the South 



Home, credited to a "Northern Exchange :" — 



It is often remarked of persons who do not 

 possess any property, and who depend upon 

 their daily labor for support of themselves 

 and families, that they are "worth nothing" 

 financially speaking. This language is gen- 

 erally indulged in by men in the community 

 who st\le themselves business men, and who 

 get rich off the necessities of other men. 

 Let us examine the question financially, and 

 see if their assertions are correct. 



Last year the price of common labor aver- 

 aged $1.50 per day. Admitting that the la- 

 borer received $1.50 per day. and it required 

 the whole of that sum to support his family, 

 nevertheless we contend that the laborer was 

 worth in cash to his family the sum of $7989. 



The amount he would receive for one year''s 

 labor, at $1.50 per day would be $475,60, 

 which amount would be the interest at six per 

 cent, on $7989, which latter sum would be the 

 cash value of the laboring man to his family. 



The cash value of the laboring man to the 

 community is nuich more than the above-named 

 gum, as labor is the only true wealth to any 

 country. Without labor our forges, furnaces, 

 woolen mills, and indeed manufactories of all 

 kinds, would cease to be. The music of the 

 loom and shuttle would be silenced forever. 

 Our national and other banks would close 

 their doors, and our most enterprising mer- 

 chants take in their signs. Without labor 

 civilization would recede, and the bat and owl 

 would soon occupy the crimson chambers of 

 our would-be business men. 



Let the laboring men of the United States 

 realize their true position. Let them reflect 



that labor is honorable — that labor is wealth. 

 Let them remember that they are a power in 

 the State — that to them this great Government 

 is indebted for all it possesses of liberty, glory, 

 grandeur. 



"Let them not only reflect" that labor is 

 honorable, but let those who look down on 

 the humble laborer and mechanic reflect for 

 one moment before they speak in terms of dis- 

 paragement of the "hewers of wood and 

 drawers of water." The custom is too prev- 

 alent in the community of making remarks in 

 a sneering manner of the great industrial class 

 of our people, leading youths among us to 

 think that honest industry is not honorable, be 

 it what it may. That time has passed, and 

 the South is too poor to indulge in such sickly 

 nonsense; she needs labor of all kinds. Hon- 

 est, industrious mechanics and laborers are 

 the wealth of States, and until they are en- 

 couraged and fostered, our people cannot be 

 prosperous. It is not the cash value alone by 

 which he enriches the place of his residence 

 but he adds by his labor to its material wealth ; 

 no country or nation that commands the re- 

 spect of the world, but what that respect was 

 gained through the skill of her mechanical 

 population. Then let all classes, more espe- 

 cially the rich, respect and inculcate their chil- 

 dren with the true theory of life, that labor is 

 honorable, and if in after life misfortune 

 should overtake them, willing hands will be 

 put forth to earn their support. 



Bees and Fruit Blossoms. — E. Gallup, 

 in Western Pomologist says that "the facts of 

 the case are, that instead of the bees injuring 

 the fruit blossom or crop in any case whatever, 

 they are an absolute assistance. So much so, 

 that in the immediate vicinity of an apiary in 

 some seasons, there will be an abundance of 

 fruit, whereas in localities where no bees were 

 kept, there was comparatively little. Bees 

 are a great assistance in fertilizing blossoms 

 that otherwise (or left to nature) would not 

 become fertilized, and the clover or buck- 

 wheat patch that produces the most honey, 

 produces the most seed, invariably. The 

 honey in the blossom, if not taken out by the 

 bees and other insects, would be dried up by 

 the sun or warhed away with rain, conse- 

 quently would be a dead loss ; but if we have 

 be^s to gather it, it is so much gain, not only 

 to the owner of the bees, but to the fruit 

 grower and the farmer." 



Early Calves. — A correspondent of the 

 Country Oentleman says : — There is a good 

 deal more depending on an early start than is 

 generally supposed; yet every farmer who 

 has raised stock must be aware of the advan- 

 tages attached to a calf or a colt born in 

 March or April, over one not coming into ex- 

 istence till June. The early young animals 

 become strong against their first winter, and 



