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cows you keep the less work there will be for the women, because 

 the men will do more of it. 



Mr. IIakkis. That is so. 1 have a neiglibor who does the wh<^le 

 of the business — takes care of all the milk and butter. The women 

 don't touch it. 



Mr. Silas Hawes of Union. "We have used a creamery four 

 3'ears. This summer we have milked six cows. My boy has done 

 all the milking, and I have taken care of all the milk, with the 

 exception of an occasional day when I have been away. All the 

 women have done towards making the butter is that about once in 

 four days they scald the cans, and work over the butter after it is 

 churned. I think, with the creamery and butter worker, there is 

 less work for the women with ten cows than with two where the ■ 

 butter is made in the old way. I am satisfied of that, by the use 

 of the system for four years. And I am satisfied that a creamer}' 

 will pay for itself in one season. Mine cost me twenty-five dollars. 

 There is very little labor about it. I know I have spent but Uttle 

 time with it. 



Mr. Starrett. It seems to me, if we are going to calculate the 

 profits in any branch of business, we must reckon the labor. If I 

 am going to raise a crop of corn, to find the pi-ofit I have got to cal- 

 culate the amount of labor I put into it; and I think it is the same 

 with the dairy business. I have reduced the amount of work for 

 the women, in taking care of the milk the past summer, so that 

 about all they have done has been to wash the milk pails, strainer 

 and churn. Heretofore, when we have used pans, the women have 

 had a great deal of work to do to keep the pans in proper condition. 

 I have used a creamery the past season, and they find their work 

 very much reduced. My ci-eamery is a Mosely. 



Mr. Harris. In corroboration of what has just been said, I will 

 say that the labor on my farm is hired labor. The woman in the 

 house, when I was selling milk, of course, had the cans to take care 

 oi. When I commenced talking of making butter she investigated 

 the matter, and told me she would rather make butter tlian take care 

 of the milk cans. She has never taken that back. 



Mr. HoLBKOOK. If the gentlemen who complain that the item 

 of labor is never reckoned in. in tliese statements, will look in the 

 last Repoit of the Board of Agriculture, they will see a statement 

 there by j\Ir. C. H. Cobb, in which he gives due credit to labor. 

 Mr. Cobb is one of the most careful dairymen in the State — a man 

 who weighs, and measures, and gives due credit for everything. 



