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Butter Factories

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Butter faetones havo provrd A grput succoss, and are destinad to multiply un til overy farminp; district shall boast of ane nr moro of these desirable oö-opera tivo concerns. It is a rare thing to obtain good assistance in dairy matten, and when wives aro fofced to Du tlicir own dairymaids nnd housokeepers also, it isno wonder t.hat so many farmers are now living with thcir second or third -.vivos. Twelve cows havo boen tho death of many a woman, and winu she is dead the husband will si'.y : " Well, woll, I snpposi it's Proridoncu .' Hotsey always did work hard. Holp'a scaree, and coste a poworof money ; but I nevel thought sho'd go off so quick after sho gavo up. Now, what I'in to do vith all these cows on my hands is too big a sum for me to ciphor." Perhnps a butter or cheese factory comes to bis reBOTie. If not, he does ïïöt remaiu a widowor long ; ore the weed on his hat is rusty, ho luis porsuaded some girl or widow to take Betaey'a place in his Jieart and kitohen. ïhe triio verdict over many a woniun's coffin should be, " Done to death b3" buttor and checse " Did the labor of a dairy fel] upon men - woro they compellod to slum inilk and wash a hundred pans or more overj' nioriiing and night; to work and sult tho butterj and put it down - butter factories voüld havo been built fyy tho hundreds long oro this. Kor men usually avail thomselvcs of all labor-suving machinery. They know tho toil of inowing, reaping, threshing, otc, and when they eau buy or hiro tho machines, they do it ; but they do not comprehend the daily work of the dairy. Many of them imagine it is mere play to stand and skim milk and niake butter in a cool, shady, ploaaant room, never thinking of the endless routine of work demanded of the honsekeeper - the maid of all work - and how her overtaxed muscles and nérvea swell, throb, and

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus