Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-10-27

~ i1iNH' WV E> AND Ei[>.
There Is great deal OF excellent good
sense in the following passage, which we
take from an address delivered short time
since before the Essex County Agricultu-
raj Society, by Allen Putnam, ESQ. Of Dan
vers, one of the Representatives of that
town.
Il have few words for the farmers
wlvcs.-However skilful, Industrious. and
prudent, your husbands may be, their sue
cess IN money making depends as much
upon you rs upon them. Economy and
skill on your part in turning every thing
TO The best account, are essential to profit
able husbandry. Perhaps there is scope
Tor study, experiments, and Improvement
IN your department. All arc not equally
successful in the management Of dairy.
Foor pastures, poor COWS, poor cellars, are
the alleged reasons 70: the difference in
results. These things undoubtedly are Of
ten causes of failure to obtain butter in large
quantities and of good quality. But may
not the fault sometimes lie with the dairy
woman ?-lS her business so simple as to
be always understood !-You begin TO sus-
pect that doubt whether some Of YOU per-
tectly mastered the art Of butter making.
1t may be an ungaIlant doHbt, bat listen 10
the particulars OF one case in the point, and
then Judge whether | can help doubling.
As stated TO me, the facts re these. One
oil our farmers, the summer before last
employed successfully, and for short terms
each, three 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
Ofbutter per week, the second tWcnty-thrcc,
and the third twcnty-seven. Such acts
should induce many Of you 70 vary your
processes and note the results.
Philanthropy, looking forward. signs ut
consequences which must follow from chan
gcs that are taking place in the habits and
empIoymcnts ofyour daughters. Circum-
stances beyond your control have thrown
the healthful spinning wheel upon the pile
of rubbish in the garnet. HouScwolk and
the dairy do not furnish sufficient employ
ment for the females. Ether mothers or
daughters must resort TO something else bv
which to contribute a share in the support
OF a family. II is too commonly the case
that the daughters resort 10 some occupa-
ton that is not sufficiently active and in.
MIGRATING. The needle is taking the bloom
from many oftheir checks, and yigor from
their frames. The evil is augmented by
that mode of dress ought to use harsh
er term which obstructs the natural and
healthy development Of the lungs and
chest; also by avoiding exposure 10 the
weather; and a too cGGminato reliance up
on the horse for services which heaven in
tended should be rendered by their own
limbs The lamentable consequences will
not be confined TO them; children will in
herit the fecbIcncSs of their mothers, and
a sickly race will come after us.
Useful as the needle is, and beautiful as
are its contributions to our show, appeal
to the mothers to forbid its excessive. its
constant use by their daughters lcntrcat
them, as they value the well being Of their
children, TO give TO their daughters daily
and thorough training in the care and la
Dor Of the dairy and Of all household az
fairs.-lt We're welI-wcll for them and a
future race, that they should revive the
acquaintance which their mothers had with
the milking stool, the garden, and to some
extent the field: for then bloom would flow
in fuller tides through all their veins; they
would acquire yigor of body and soundncss
Of mind, that will contribute to their use
Tulncss and cnjOymcnts, when time shall
bring them 10 the places which YOU now
hold-shall make them the wives Of far
mers, and mothers Of the rising genera
ton"