There’s been a lot of killing and maiming and suffering the last six weeks in the various seats of war … and the price of butter is still too high at the Richmond market.
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 13, 1864:
Butter.
–The markets on Saturday were well supplied with fresh country butter. Prices were a shade lower, but buyers seemed still inclined to hold off, and the consequence was that very little was sold. People are willing to pay eight and ten dollars for a good article, but no more; so let the producers place it at those figures at once or stop bringing it to market. At this season of the year milch cows subsist altogether on grazing, and therefore, it costing nothing to feed them, all that is obtained for butter is clear gain.
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at the butter churn (ca.1900)
“Woman churning milk to butter” c1897
