Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — Utilising Frogs. [ARTICLE]

Utilising Frogs.

We have a story from Middletown, Conn., that eclipses the marvels of oleomargarine. The people of .that plaoe have accidentally discovered how to utilize bullfrogs by converting them into churners of butter. The discovery was thus reached: A farmer in the neighborhood, having placed a pail of milk in a spring of water to cool over night, went there the next morning, and found, it is solemnly asserted, instead of the pail of milk, a large bullfrog sitting in contemplative mood upon a roll of fresh butter. The sole explanation is that the frog had jumped from the water into the pail, and, in trying to extricate himself, had, by diligent and continuous strokes of his long legs, churned the milk into butter. Such a thing might happen in rustio Connecticut, but we will venture to assert that no bullfrog, however energetic and trained, or however agricultural in instinct, could in any given time convert the aqueous kind of milk we get here into butter, or even into tolerable buttermilk. Therefore, as we can reoeive no benefit from the discovery, we shall not attempt to put it in practice. We shall continue, in our usual barbarous fashion, to eat the hind legs of frogs, and leave it to Middletown to employ them as natural, spontaneous, self-acting churners. — New York Times.