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280 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Our Farm Of Four Jlcres, And The Js£Oney...
both declared in the tliat famil they could -was not born do and so , and bred the in elder London one , and who detested had "been the
many country years and every thing y connected , with it , gave her opinion , in the most dewithout would cided ma onl making nner be , fit that more for there the work was i with when quite butter it enoug was -making made h " muck ; which Here " , in was she the a pretty house d conf alread iden state tly y of , ,
y pg . butter things ! and what regard were we the to money do ? must as lo we st which give up we all had hope just of expended eating our for own the
churn , etc . ? After a few minutes' bewilderment , the idea occurred to both of dent us of , at these the same household moment rebels : ' Cannot ?' we make the butter , and be
indepen" " ' But What in / books said of that I relative , dolefull ? ' rep to lie y , d ' country we H . : do w ' life t in re the w as least the did use know before of how exp we endi to left set ng about town so muc it if . h '
money a , you , is they certain are not we to cannot enlight make en our butter ignorance till we on country have learnt matters how ? ; But so let one us thing
endeavor to , obtain the requisite knowledge to do so to-morrow , ' " But tlie more they readthe less distinct ideas could they
enter-, tain upon butter-making , and wlien tliey asked the farmers' wives how long * butter ought to be in coining ' , they received the mystical
answer , " Why , you see , ma ' am , that depends . " " Well , " we asked , " wliat does it depend on ? " "Oh , on lots of things . " Further
they could not attain ; it was a state secret ; and our ladies had to try , and try again , till at length , by dint of Iiot -water and cold
¦ water , they arrived at the due certainty , and became good buttermakers , except , indeed , on one occasion , when the cream " went to
sleep , " and could not be roused by nine hours' churning ! " A friend of the writer , a lad when y of large fortune of her , and mistress nei of hbour a very
handsome hood has the establishment character of , sai making d , very speaking bad butter ; mine dairy is , invariabl ' My g y good - ; If and I I have always occasion get a penny to change a pound the more dairymaid for it at and the ' the shop new ' than one my sends neighbours me .
bad butterI tell her of it . If it occurs the , second time , I make no more up having complaints her , ; at I go down side the the next whole butter time -day I , never and make find I it have entirel to y myself lain ,
my . comp I again believe . She that sees a how servant it is who made is , worth and rather she keep than is ing compelled will missus follow to own any second it directions is good time , .
enter and take the kitchen any amount or dairy of trouble to do her , work . ' " see * ' a
What the ladies made by their two cows , namely £ 15 18 s . 4 d ., in the first six months ; what they gained by their pigs and lost by
their rabbits ; how they kept pigeons and fowls , cured their own hamsand baked their own bread , grew a wonderful number of
bring grains , them and vegetables in health and on their plenty four , may acres here , and be made read their in detail little . farm The
moral is , that if you wish your small farm to answer , you nmst mind every item yourself , and leave nothing to servants ; and that , on the wholeit is better to be practical and merry in the country
than poor and , genteel in London , in spite of friends who think that butter library -making , and th at th ose no who connection are left wi with th a a small subscri incom ption to had M bette udie ' r s
take a " sinall house near a square . "
280 Notices Of Books.
280 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/64/
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