5S0 1I»».V1;D of ACJEnCULTUKE. 



Mrs. Laniont: This year our cows will make 300 pounds each, and 

 tlu-re are 4 heifers included in tlie 15 cows. 



Mrs. Freese: What do you get on an average per pound for your 

 butter? 



Mrs. Laniont:. "We get 25 cents six months in the year; the winter 

 six mouths we get 30. 



Mrs. Freese: Do you sliip your butter or sell it at retail? 



Mrs. Lament : We sell it at retail; we have a butter route and take it 

 to our customers every week. 



iieorge JSchlosser: What power do you use to run your separator? 



Mrs. L.niKiiit: Hand ;iower. Tlie men folks run the machine. I do 

 the churiiini:. .iiid make the liutter. The men do the milking. 



Mr. Reamer: How loug does it take you to run it through the sep- 

 arator each time? 



Mrs. Lamont: 1 think a little over a half hour. It depends on the 

 quantity of milk. Sometimes we get more milk than at other times. I 

 think a half hour, to perhaps 10 minutes more than that sometimes. 



President Schlosser: The No. 2 separator will separator 000 pounds 

 of milk an liour. You can figure up how long it-will take. 



Mrs. Freese: Yon have the butter contracted by the year? 



Mrs. Lamont: Yes, all of it; and Ave could supply a great deal mqre 

 if we had it. 



yiv. Doud: I Avould like to ask what time you do your milking? 



Mrs. Lamont: We begin about five o'clock in the morning, and then 

 between four and live in the evening, so we get done in a reasonable 

 time. 



Mv. Dond: Do you think il Avould be any better to divide up the 

 hours and milk at. say 7, in tli(> morning and at 5 in the evening? 



Mrs. Lamont: That is about what we do. I think we begin work a 

 little earlier at night. 



:Mr. Dond: If you did the milking regularly wouldn't it be l)etter? 



Mrs. I.,amont: Yes. 



