butter-washing

Updated: May 6, 2025

It was like the bonds of a corporation, the first claim, but a comparatively small one. The hens came next; they held preferred stock, and always received a five-pound, semi-daily dividend to each pen of forty. The growing pigs came last; they held the common stock, which was often watered by the swill and dish-water from both houses and the buttermilk and butter-washing from the dairy.

John Williams Streeter - The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm