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COWS to milk, and wonder what would happen if you did speak 

 out and the man threw up his job you hesitate and keep on 

 with that sort of help because you cannot do otherwise. But 

 with the milking machine you are absolutely independent. If 

 you want to keep at it long enough, you can milk lOO cows 

 alone. 



The fifth thing is lower cost. We have just had it pointed 

 cut to us here that the way for a farmer to realize on his farm 

 is to sell his product in the most concentrated form and keep 

 animals to keep up the fertility rather than to sell off the hay. 

 The farmer says, 'T know this, but when I get more cows my 

 trouble begins." It is an expensive job to milk those cows. It 

 lasts seven days in the week. With the machine your trouble 

 is minimized. You are independent and can lower your cost of 

 milk production. You do not have to tie up all your profits 

 in extra wages for a man, especially when he cannot be useful 

 in other ways, at some times of year. 



We come finally to the question in everybody's mind, Are 

 milking machines really successful? If there was some way in 

 which I could convince every person here that milking machines 

 were successful, either I or somebody else representing some 

 other make of machine would get an order frum every dairy- 

 man who is able to finance it. But there is lurking in your mind 

 this question. The reason it is bothering you is that while 

 some men have milking machines and think very well of them, 

 another man has one and it is not successful in his hands. 

 What is the trouble? All I can say is, the milking machines 

 are the same at every man's place and the cows are the same, 

 so far as this matter is concerned, and the difference is in the 

 man. It has been said that ''Milking machines are just about as 

 successful as the man who runs them." The personal element 

 in the machine is a large one. Unless you are prepared to 

 handle it right you had better not have one. I do not mean 

 that it takes the dexterity and skill that it does to play the piano, 

 but there are a few things to be done and if those are not done 

 there is not a machine on the market that will be successful. 



I said a few moments ago that milking machines were always 

 successful in some men's hands but they have not been in all 

 men's hands. We have been making changes which will better 

 fit them for the ordinary help. The first three elements to con- 



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