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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[August, 
These are make upon the same plan, are 30 inches 
long, 18 inches wide, and 14 inches deep. Instead 
of trays, plain shelves are used for the butter to 
rest upon. No coloring, whatever, is used in this 
dairy, and the butter is of a true, and, not a ficti¬ 
tious, Jersey color. It 
is pertinent here to re¬ 
mark that, while Mr. 
Starr’s arrangements 
are very excellent, yet 
they are in no way cost¬ 
ly. So far as expendi¬ 
ture is concerned, the 
dairy-room and dairy 
implements could be 
had upon every dairy 
farm. Cleanliness is not costly, any more than virtue 
and honesty are ; it is only the effort to acquire and 
practice these, which costs; and the cost is simply 
determination and some trouble. To imitate the 
practice of the Echo Farm Dairy, and to produce 
was grossly adulterated with hairs. This is in¬ 
excusable, but it is a very prevalent fault in much 
of the butter which comes to market. Under the 
arrangements at Echo Farm Dairy, such an occur¬ 
rence is impossible. The systematic care, by which 
the admission of impurities into the milk is entirely 
prevented, need not cost one dollar a year in money. 
The expense of the necessary strainers, is the only 
outlay, and the time taken to use them is the only 
added expense. It is the same with all the other 
arrangements about the dairy. It is an encourage¬ 
ment for those who will practice these dairy virtues, 
that these will be their own reward, in bringing a 
better price for the product; for, unfortunately, 
notwithstanding all the efforts and examples that 
may be put forth for the reform of the dairy, it is 
only here and there that a genuine convert from 
the too common practices can be made, and it is 
very certain that choice butter will always readily 
sell at very profitable prices, and never exceed, if 
it reaches the demand. There is a plenty of room 
in the markets for dairy goods of the highest class. 
Fashions in Bouquets—The Fan. 
To those who have a real love for flowers, the j 
idea that they come under the rale of fickle fash¬ 
ion, will seem improbable if not repulsive. Yet 
many a florist knows to his cost that fashion, in i 
cities at least, rules as rigidly in bouquets as it does 
in bonnets. Many a grower has, at much trouble [ 
and expense, provided a stock of camellias, only to 
find, just as his plants are coming on finely, that 
camellias were out of and roses were in demand, 
or that had his frames, or houses, been filled with 
Lily of the Yalley instead of violets, he would 
have hit the fashion of the winter. Not only do 
fashions in flowers vary, but the form and finish of 
the bouquet differs. A New York bouquet is strik¬ 
ingly different in its style from one made in Boston, 
while that in Philadelphia will differ from both. 
Sometimes the border is of paper cut to represent 
lace, sometimes it is of satin, again of swan’s-down, 
of button-hole bouquets, which are there considered 
essential to a gentleman in full dress, and numer¬ 
ous designs for making these, giving the desirable 
combinations of flowers and green, are frequently 
presented in their horticultural journals. Just now 
the London sensation in the way of bouquets, are 
Fig. 4.— LARGE BUTTER BOX. 
those made in the shape of a fan. If we mistake 
not, bouquets of the fan style have been made by 
our florists, at any rate the idea appears to have 
struck the Londoners as a new revelation, and a 
contributor in a recent “ Gardener’s Chronicle,” 
fairly “spreads himself” on the subject, and writes 
a great deal without telling much. We borrow the 
engraving to show the style of the bouquet, fig. 1 
giving the front, and fig. 2 the reverse side. 
Though an enumeration of all the flowers and sprigs 
Fig. 3.— TRAY. 
Yig. 1.— FAN-BOUQUET, FRONT. 
Fig. 2.— FAN-BOUQUET, REVERSE SIDE. 
butter of similar character, is possible for every 
dairyman, and in describing this dairy, we wish em¬ 
phatically to note this point, that what is done 
here may be done anywhere, if the determination is 
made, and the skill i-s acquired. For instance, we 
recently inspected some well-flavored butter that 
and of various other materials as fashion may dic¬ 
tate. Not only in the more pretentious hand-bou¬ 
quets, but in the little clusters for the button-hole, 
does fashion declare that this or that flower is the 
thing that one must wear to be in style. Especial¬ 
ly in London is great attention given to the matter 
is given, we are not told how the bouquet is made, 
but it would be very easy to make a frame work of 
broom-corn splints, or something stiffer, for the 
foundation. In this case the trimming along 
the upper edge at the back is of plaits of stiff 
white satin ribbon, with swan’s-down to finish off.. 
