Mr.
Howard has been for years improving his herd; he prefers short-horns, and he saves every year the calves from the best milkers in all his herd, using also bulls from good milking strains.

I was told that the average product of butter on the whole estate is now one hundred and seventy-five pounds to each cow; many cows give as high as two hundred, and even two hundred and fifty pounds per annum.
Men do the milking, and also the butter-making, though on one farm I found a pretty Swedish girl superintending all the indoor work, with such skill and order in all the departments, that she possessed, so far as I saw, the model dairy on the estate.
Here, said I to myself, is now an instance of the ability of women to compete with men which would delight Mrs.Stanton and all the Woman's Rights people; here is the neatest, the sweetest, the most complete dairy in the whole region; the best order, the most shining utensils, the nicest butter-room--and not only butter, but cheese also, made, which is not usual; and here is a rosy-faced, white-armed, smooth-haired, sensibly-dressed, altogether admirable, and, to my eyes, beautiful Swedish lass presiding over it all; commanding her men-servants, and keeping every part of the business in order.
Alas! Mrs.Stanton, she has discovered a better business than butter-making.

She is going to marry--sensible girl that she is--and she is not going to marry a dairy-farmer either.
I doubt if any body in California will ever make as nice butter as this pretty Swede; certainly, every other dairy I saw seemed to me commonplace and uninteresting, after I had seen hers.

I don't doubt that the young man who has had the art to persuade her to love him ought to be hanged, because butter-making is far more important than marrying.

Nevertheless, I wish him joy in advance, and, in humble defiance of Mrs.Stanton and her brilliant companions in arms, hereby give it as my belief that the pretty Swede is a sensible girl--that, to use a California vulgarism, "her head is level." The hogs are fed chiefly on skim-milk, and belong entirely to the tenant.
The calves, except those which are raised for the proprietor, are, by agreement, killed and fed to the pigs.