Litchfield enquirer., 1844-11-14
PURCHASING BUTTER.

els your butter good ~ said to the farmer.
"Good, my wife has made butter these twenty
years, and should think she ought to know how
to make good butter by this time"
He was evidently offended.
" Well let US examine it," The cover was ia.
ken off the tub, the clean white cloth (which had
been wet in brine rolled up, and the yellow tteas-
ure revealed. 1t certainly did look good.
q 1t tastes sweet but how very salt it.is."
"We always make our butter salt, to have it
keep this season."
"Let us see if the buttermilk is as well worked
out ais the salt is in" ....s
Some Of the Jumps were then pressed down with
the ladle. 'f. ....
Now, my friend. (said ~ il your wife has
made butter these twenty years, she does not know
how to make good butter; for NO butter can be
good until all the buttermilk is worked out. If this
is done, you need not salt il 90 bad to haven't keep
we'll in any place. very little more care and la
Dor would have made this excellent butter; but
lacking that little il 10 only second quallty-ss
you shall acknowledge when show you sample
Of good butter"
We went in and took up roll from firkin Of
first rate butter. 1t was smooth, clean and hancc
some the hand Of woman had not been on It from
the time it had left the churn until now, all the
work had been done with ladle.
+ "Ifyou will get one drop OF outterm'k from
that butter you may have the whole Free"
50 Now, taste this, and taste your own, and say
honestly, if you would not give higher price for
this than your own. Look at it.--see how clear
and transparent these minute gobulets, are and how
intimately they are blended with the whole mass
Until all those disappear, the butter will keep
sweet and no butter will keep long when they
are ever so lightly colored with the milk"
The farmer simply remarked that there was
difference in butter and left to find less critical or
more ready customer. .
butter, and is willing to pay for it, our farmers
wives and daughters do not take pains to make a
better article. It's the women's fault that we have
poor butter generally, and we must hold them re-
sponsible 1t is perfectly easy to make good put
ter. The only requisite is care: Good 6ntter Will
always command good price in the dullest mar
ket while poor butter 10 drug at any price.
When any Of my lady readers make butter again,
lust let them imagine that am to have nice
piece of bread and butter with them, and that /
shall detect the least particle Of milk, and am not
fond of too much salt.-.Ne,o Genesee Farmer.
Potatoes in Manufactures. persons are
probably aware Of the quantity OF potatoes used IN
our own country and elsewhere in the manufacture
of starch, arrow.root, tapicca, &c. The starch
mandatory in Mercer, Maine, is said to have man
ufactured one hundred and forty thousand pounds,
Of an excellent quality, grinding about sixteen
thousand bushels Of potatoes. The account rom
which this il taken says, further I'VE learn that
they have made arrangements to grind twenty -four
| thousand bushels of potatoes the coming WINTER
which produce more than two hundred ana an IoIy
| thousand pounds of starch. They sell the COM
modify in Boston for about four dollars per hun.
dred. The New England manufacturers prefer It
| to Poland starch. Another mandatory 10 men.
| toned in Hampden, which consumes two thousand
five hundred bushels per day.
Do,,,t 90 Wess.--People from the Western towns
and cities beg of your professional men, u they
| have any regard for themselves. not to think oil
emgrating to the Valley OF the mississippi, The
professions, except the clerical cae, are burtnene9
10 excess In st. Louis, there are 100 lawyers and
nearly as many physicians, and neither OF the pro-
sessions require the services Of more than twenty
or thirty Of each; consequently the balance are IN
wretched state Of suspense or starvation. IN th!s
new country professional business OF every SOFT
greatly oyer,ione. What 10 wanting at the West' is
| more farmers, mechanics, manufacturers wool
Growers and laborers. Millions Of acres, tecming
with luxuriant vegetation, only waits the husband
| man, to yield an enormous harvest.
| A Queer Objective once saw in Connecticut
one Of the queerest looking blackies imaginabie,-
His face was 80 black that he couldn't tell wher
twas roorning-his wool curled 90 tight that y
made him round shouldered--his nose was 20 ma
md Greasy he had to put tar on his fingers Whei
| he wanted 10 blow this shins were 20 sharp. n
| couldn't 20 through a corn-6eld without sphItnl
the stalks-and his heels were 90 long, " We: ~,
nossible for him to 60 down hill without Tying
Couple of stones on them fog ballast. He die
yonng. Of modification, which commenced in 81
iegs. In consequence Of their being too crooked 70
he blood to find ito way up and down them'-SsS''
day JMeycsgy.
EprTAPH IN AN ENGLISH CHURCH YAK AZ,
Here lies Thomas Huddlestons. ReadeE' u0n
smile!
But reject, az this tomb-stcne you we've In.
i That death. who kind him, in avery shost "nAl'
Will hss6dge-a-stone upon you
Il A Solev.,s Ts1.aA-The generality o. men a.
ploy he first part Of life in making the 'e'a'n''