The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-11-18
R. l., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ls, 1862.
" Engaged Oh! For tie whole

"Yes. A man comes to the door
:. every week, and serves me at a uniform
price, no matter whether the market bt
high or low." ..
Mrs. Livewell sat down again, and the
expression of Ter face ch ngrd.
i " l don't like that plan," said she
" tried it once, but | don't likr it. Ii
does well enough when butter is high,
= but to be paying quarter for all your
butter when the market is gutted with
the very best quality for twenty AMI
twenty-five, aud even as low as sixteen,
is not so pleasant, as l have ex-
perenced."
) " But" said the lady, " take the sea-
son through, and l believe it comes
cheaper. Besides, it's great convrn-
ience to have good article served to
you regularly. This running thr ough
the market twice week, tasting butter
at every tub, is terrible annoyance
+" am sure" returned Mrs. Livewell,
1t wasn't cent ch .aper to us. In
deed, | know it cost US great deal
more than when We took the rise and
fall of the market. How much do you
use a week :"
! g Five pounds" replied the la ".
r" 1t takes eight for our table every
blessed week, besides three or four
pounds for oking. It's terrible tax
When 'he price is down as low as twen-
ty cents, | don't mind it; but to be
paying thirty or thirty-tbree is dreadful.
| really feel unhappy about it,"
A pound of butter," spoke up Mr..
Livewell, at this part of the conversa-
tion, " is never worth quarter, and to
charge more, is downright cheatery. If
| had anything to do with law making,
I'D fix that as the highest limit"
"And a barrel of -four at six dollars"
said the lady, who had joined in the con-
versation.
Well, yes-or seven dollars, if you
choose. But butter should never be
allowed to 60 above twenty five. cents
That is the very maximum price"
"By the way" said Mr.. Livewell, at
this part of the conversation, drawing,
as he spoke, slip of paper fom his
pocket, 81 met with something to-day
that is quite aprcpOs to the subject.
The fact is, the public mind is getting
awake to this great imposition, aud there
will be salutary reaction before long.
The time for reform is at no great dis
tance."
Mr. Livewell then read an account of
some experiments made in the produce
tion of butter from grass and hay by
direct chemical process.
There's a better time coming, you
see," remarked he, as he carefully re-
folded the slip of paper, light playing
over his face "or as the song has it
A good time coming, boys,
Wait a little longer
At no very distant period we shall dis
pense with the agency of the COW in this
important matter altogether. And think
what a saving that will be ! Men of iu-
telligence and enterprise will then come
into the business, and we shall have a
true competition-not such as exists
among plodding farmers and dairy-men,
who keep on in the beaten track from
generation to generation, as if there were
no such thing as improvement. BY this
new method, you see that large per
ccntage more of butter is obtained from
a ton of hay than when fed to cows.
And this is no more than might be rea-
sonably Inferred, for it is plain that the
animals must stract portion for their
own subsistence.
"How soon, inquired Mrs. Livewell, !,
seriously, evil this new method be
adopted"
-" Immediately, without doubt. The (
thing has been tried and proved.
wonder if in six months we had
a large establ sl,ment, capable of supply +;
ing the whole city with milk, butter aud
cream, at half the usual prices.''
"Delightful !" exclaimed Mrs. Live q
we'll. "Oh, wish it were tomorrow {
How much we are indebted to science :" !
The conversation was interrupted q
here by the entrance of refreshments iu G
the inviting shape of couple of pyra- S
mids of ice cream and basket of choice [
cakes. Instantly the price of butter G
was forgotten-at least by all except the a
Livewells- conversation, by nat
ural impulse, took new and more gen. 4
orally agreeable direction. \
Now, the Livewells are not penurious
people by any means. Five or six dol |
lars were spent for these refreshments r
without feeling Of regret for the cost. !