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| “The dairy room and butter-making. This
department of the farmhouse, as well as the kitchen
and the flower garden, should be the pride and joy of
the country woman’s heart.” |
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—E.H. LELAND, FARM HOMES, 1881 |
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“An Excellent Butter-worker”
(above)
From American Agriculturist, December 1870
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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BUTTER-MAKING
The story of butter-making
illustrates changes in men’s and
women’s dairy work from the
1860s to the 1950s. In nineteenthcentury
New England, much of
the milk, which spoiled easily,was
made into longer-lasting butter
and sold by farm women. |
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Churning Day, Cape Neddick,Maine
Photograph by Fred Quimby
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Typically butter-making took place indoors, and women
did the churning, but this apparently staged outdoor photograph
with barrel churn gave the photographer more
light. The woman standing at the table is “working” the
clump of butter with paddles. |
“How To Churn”
From American Agriculturist, April 1872
The women considered butter-making hard and tiring. |
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Dairy-related advertisements,
From American Agriculturist, November 1886
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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