Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-05-29

others operations, and think themselves
excessively abused if they are not allowed
to do everything in company.
A glance at the southern kitchens at
once shows that they were made for this
barbarous, uhsystematie, noisy, dirty way
of getting OH. A neat. tidy kitchen in
house with hot and cold water, set tubs,
sinks, and other arrangements for cleanli.
ness and order, is thing quite undream-
cd of by these poor souls The kitchen
of our establishment is a log hut, about
twenty PAGES from the house. with great
open fireplace. The windows are un-
glazed, and can be only closed from wind
and rain by wood,n shutters which shut
out light as WELL and in windy weather
the great chimney smokes to that degree
that the Stusrt's cooking stove. which
has lately been introduced there. seems
utterly confused in its mind, and to ask
itself the question. IAN | really Stu
arts stove, or hin | leaky old chimney
fue ?" There is no sink or drain Of any
kind the only resource for getting rid of
house slops is to pour them out of the
window aforesaid Luckily, this fine,
dry white Floridian soil swallows any
amount. and yet looks clean as if nothing
had HAPPENED. Finally, there is no re-
source for bringing water into this kitch.
cn except the we'll, which is situated quite
distance from the house. One cannot
but admire the composure with which our
cook, who, by thc.by, asks twelve dollars
u month for her services, will sit at about
ten o'clock finishing her everlasting break
fast, which is taken by easy stages from
eight o'clock onward, while her fire goes
cut in the stove, and there is not a drop
of water in her water pail, nor thought
of heating any dish. water. Then when
the idea of washing dishes actually is
brought to her mind by rlessoge or ex-
postulation from her mistress, she contenl.
plates it wholly as new and unexpected
emergency, aud probably discovers ter
the first time that she is out of wood,
aud must send Lizzie down in the lot 10
call up Joe to cut some, or else that she
has rheumatism in her shoulder. aud
must get Aunt Wipnah to draw her water,
and sends Sophy down to the COW pen to
look for her. Pending these operations
she will seat herself quietly, with all her
unwashed dishes around her. fold her
arms. aud appear lost in contemplation
10 do her Justice, she often, in the most
hidden, unprecedented and unexpected
ways, gets up something that is very
good to eat. makes excellent coffee aud
corn mullins, aud stews some of this
tough Florida beef so that it is really q
most presentable dish, and has odd inter-
walls of cleaning up her kitchen and
washing her dishes, which take one en-
tirely by surprise, because the most phi.
losophic mind can never predict when they
are likely to occur-they are the secret
counsels Of her own inscrutable will.
Speaking of beef leads US to treat of
the dairy matters of Florida farm,
which to a Northerper have truly an orig.
inal air.
Our dairy woman is an ancient, strong
minded, strong limbed sy bil from South
Carolina, who is generally called Aunt
Winnah. The whole care of milking
butter making and the dispensing Of milk
and cream. is lodged in her hands. We
were astopishcd to hear that the planta-
tiou numbered forty cows, and that Aunt
Winnah, with one assistant, did all the
milking
But ou inquiry We found that this ope-
ration consisted only in milking so many
of the forty cows as Joe felt disposed to
bring up from the woods, or that came up
of their own accord to visit their calves,
Of whom there are about l5 10 pen near
the house.
In Florida cows run wild in the woods,
every calf is allowed to grow up to matu-
rity. and every body's calves run together
in the woods. being first branded with
the owners name. Many stock owners
never see their cattle all together from
one years end to another. Enough
calves are kept near the house to attract
up some Of the cows. and It is considered
the proper, orthodox way to let the calf
suck while the COW is being MIXED, in
order to make her give down her milk.
The consequence is, that the forty cows
together do not yield in actual milk more
than we have seen given by two good
COWS treated in the northern way.
Wiunah churps every day-unless Joe
forgeis to bring up the cows, or something
else happens. in which case they 20 with
out being MIXED for morning or an eve
uipp-wbieh fact generally dawns on vi