Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
Domestic News
January 12, 1802
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Article advises farmers on the importance of proper butter production to avoid rancidity, which can harm health, especially infants. Highlights massive butter consumption in London, benefits of good cow breeds for higher profits, and how dairying encourages farm improvement.
Clipping
OCR Quality
98%
Excellent
Full Text
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS, AND FARMERS WIVES.
FEW persons are aware of the vastness of the consumption of Butter. In its perfect state, it is a sweet, wholesome oil. By sluttishness in making, want of skill in curing, by hot weather and by time, the acid gets disengaged from the oil, it becomes rancid, and is a sort of poison to the stomach. While it feeds a great many, there is no doubt it kills some, especially infant children, whose want of exercise and of strength of digestive power exposes them to fits, colics and consumptions, in consequence of the taking for food a sustenance as acid as aqua fortis; and such is rank butter.
It is computed, that the consumption of the city of London alone is not less than fifty thousand tons of butter yearly. This is supplied from the country forty miles round the city. How prodigious the encouragement to dairies!
It is calculated in the Bath Society's Memoirs, that an ordinary cow will not bring in more than from three to six pounds sterling a year (from 13 to 26 dollars) while a good cow, that will cost no more to keep than a bad one, will produce nearly as much again. Attention to the breed of cows is hence obviously of the first importance.
It may be added that the profit of the dairy is not inferior to any branch of the farmer's business: But there is this peculiar advantage in it, that a good dairy requires a good farm. Slovenly lazy farming will not answer for the dairy. It is of course highly important to the public to encourage a business that of itself enforces improvement.
A cow should fill a pail, and by attention to the breed, every cow within ten years might do it. This would double the profits of the dairy. Nothing would be more easy—their breed is far more certain, and ten times more important, than that of horses.
It is impossible to produce a general spirit to improve dairies without making absolutely certain two good consequences: 1st, the pernicious and silly expense of horses would be lessened, and 2dly, the farmers daughters would be brought up in the best manner.
FEW persons are aware of the vastness of the consumption of Butter. In its perfect state, it is a sweet, wholesome oil. By sluttishness in making, want of skill in curing, by hot weather and by time, the acid gets disengaged from the oil, it becomes rancid, and is a sort of poison to the stomach. While it feeds a great many, there is no doubt it kills some, especially infant children, whose want of exercise and of strength of digestive power exposes them to fits, colics and consumptions, in consequence of the taking for food a sustenance as acid as aqua fortis; and such is rank butter.
It is computed, that the consumption of the city of London alone is not less than fifty thousand tons of butter yearly. This is supplied from the country forty miles round the city. How prodigious the encouragement to dairies!
It is calculated in the Bath Society's Memoirs, that an ordinary cow will not bring in more than from three to six pounds sterling a year (from 13 to 26 dollars) while a good cow, that will cost no more to keep than a bad one, will produce nearly as much again. Attention to the breed of cows is hence obviously of the first importance.
It may be added that the profit of the dairy is not inferior to any branch of the farmer's business: But there is this peculiar advantage in it, that a good dairy requires a good farm. Slovenly lazy farming will not answer for the dairy. It is of course highly important to the public to encourage a business that of itself enforces improvement.
A cow should fill a pail, and by attention to the breed, every cow within ten years might do it. This would double the profits of the dairy. Nothing would be more easy—their breed is far more certain, and ten times more important, than that of horses.
It is impossible to produce a general spirit to improve dairies without making absolutely certain two good consequences: 1st, the pernicious and silly expense of horses would be lessened, and 2dly, the farmers daughters would be brought up in the best manner.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Butter Consumption
Dairy Farming
Cow Breeding
Rancid Butter
Farm Profits
Domestic News Details
Outcome
rancid butter kills some, especially infants; improved dairy practices could double profits and reduce horse expenses.
Event Details
Advises on butter production to prevent rancidity and health risks; notes high London consumption encouraging dairies; promotes better cow breeds for higher yields; emphasizes dairy's role in farm improvement and public benefits.