Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-02-12
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Deacon Dasher's Clicked Cow !!

1t is sage Y calculated that one.ffh of the
infants born in large cities. like Paris, Lon
don and New York, perish upon the pernic-
ious food administered them-prncipaIIy
milk, or the "preparatioM" SO called All
pens, no less than those of Dickens, &c,
have written homllies upon, and caDJSeS of
the awful stuff sold in British metropolis as
muLge0 p"rO, but with no more abatement
OF The wretched traffic than has followed
the nnumerabIe crusades of the New York
press on the same subject
If you use this almost indispensable Mn.
arg, as served out in Giles, YOU must 80 it
bi d : if taken caU mutt graai sails, YOU
had better abstain from il for the good of
your 'wholesome.' Competition in the
milk trade, aud the prevailing desire Of
those therein engaged t. make IA little 90
great ways, renders it altogether ont of
the question, a general thing, to get the
pure article p"pnous places. Buller and
milk are certain christian delcacies much
III vogue, and nothing served upon our ia.
bles is susceptible Of greater cleanliness in
did the iact once present llSeIf To our eager
apneIleS, how s1dy all line rqNjttte and
purity of the dairy are daily and nightly
outraged. butter and mlIk would, as a zen.
eral rule, snom become-n drug indeed
The anecdotes cpnnected with the his
tory Of the dairy, would fill est book Of
many pages, and 90 far To prove, that COM
mon h"neSly, as Common cleanliness, are
not Il plrl aud parcel of the virtues of pnr-
veyors in the milk market 1t would not
d. t'r the milk merchant to lose ten gallons
oflas nights milk simply because an adyen-
der very 81 plClnuS circumstances, this
morning, drowned III the milk cln We
remember hearing ad old lady-wilh whom
we once domclIed, relate very striking
tlct that made MS very suspicious about the
article bntt0r, Tor several weeks afterwards
The oId lady was a great cUnA0tSScnr in the
COMMODITY ct butter, aud would spend
more eIoqnence and line in purchasing a
lev pounds oI The article, THIN would elect
STATE Governor, or pass the Main Liquor
Law III the State Of Arkansas II was the
fashion, III that city Phila9elphia-E,
country folks hI 90 around with boxes of
butter, and "hank" il of To the citizens.
An overgrown lad called on our landlady
one morning. with ten pound invoice OF
butter, that Iouked so nice, tasted So sweet
and So red"ent of the clover patch. that
the old lady bought the verd mi look,ur
youth clean ont in a.jfy Handing over
a tw" dollar bill 10 the agricultural youth.
says our landiady-
"Sly son, how often do you come inn"
"Not oflen," said he, pockelmg the
change.
"WelI," continued the old lady, when
ever You have such butter as that, call on
me and I'll buy all You have"
"Humph - says the youth-and he was
youth !-"dout caI'hte to have butter
like that often we don't sell butter don't
make MORN we can eat at home, ony the
kitten fell in the churn, and got drowned tc
death in the cream, so mother churued the
butter, and said | might GO TO town and sell
the darned stuff to somebody, if could p
While the poor old habhergusted landdd,
stood on the stoop, holding the pyramid d
butter on her big DISH and queer feeIlns
coming over her, the yOutA aud empty but
ter box doubled near corner, and were
out Of sight in twinklng Of a bed post
The old lady declared to us, she was "raiI,
beat out about it p aud we shouldn't won
der at it a bit
In neighboring town to this great liter,
airy aud christian emporium, ( BOSTON, there
used 10 live one Deacon ID Isher-wether he
was in reality a regular deacon, or merely
called so Tor short, or out Of compliment
to his Qelt-handrd) plety, the records in
forms us nOt-buI he was milk man at
sill evenls, kept fine spacious cow yard.
aud wcIl-arranged dairy. The deacon
had small stream Of water runnnr near
his house during the summer, and in Tins
cool stream he was accu,tumpdto set his
mllk,cans, into which the dairy maids and
boys would pour The milk, fresh from the
cows. 1ll'ng the cans up To within six niche.
OF The top, while the water was 81 orr,,,
ged rs 10 reach Il maximum heluhr ON II,
outside Of these cans This du,v IN mar,
OF The help, beng perInmed, they wouIc
retire, ere It was yet daylight, To the house