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Madam." "Have you references?" She hesitated a minute, and 

 then she said "Yes." "Oh, you have" — 1 had noticed the hesi- 

 tation — "Give mc your references." She said "I was dairymaid 

 on the Duke of Fife's place in Scotland." Oh, I thought, that 

 is quite aristocratic enough for me and my thought went back 

 to the three Jersey cows and a rather ordinary barn and so I 

 said "How long have you been in this country?" "Three years." 

 "Have you never tried for a position in this country?" "\^es, 

 I had one position." "You had one? And why didn't you stay?" 

 "I didn't like it, Madam ; I didn't like the way they treated their 

 cattle. They had a dog and they let him chase them up the lane 

 and down the lane, and their barns weren't nice, and they weren't 

 clean, and I didn't like it Madam." And then I thought of my 

 barn and I wondered if she would like my barn ; I didn't step in- 

 to it myself, and I am not sure it was very clean, and I said, — 

 "You didn't like it?" and then she said "But in Scotland, oh, in 

 Scotland we have beautiful cattle; they give so much milk!" 

 And I thought "Oh, you bragging old Scotchman, what are you 

 doing here?" I thought "Why haven't we the same cattle in this 

 country; we certainly import them, we pay big prices for them, 

 what is the difference between our cattle and Scotland's cattle?" 

 It wasn't the cattle; it was the people I found later on. So I 

 said "Why do your cattle give so much milk? Why are your 

 cattle better than our cattle?" "Because, madam, we love our 

 cattle." I knew her secret then. "Because, Madam, we love 

 our cattle; why, we milk our cattle always three times a day." 

 ".Three times a day, — why, I never heard of such a thing in 

 America. You milk three times a day?" "Yes, in Scotland, 

 there is an old adage, and it says 'The more you milk, the more 

 you may,' " and I know by my own experience that if you will 

 milk your cows three times a day you will raise the quantity 

 from two to four pounds, and you will raise the percent of butter 

 from a half to one percent ; that will pay you in dollars and 

 cents. So she says we love our cattle, and I have milked eight 

 times a day. Yes, Madam, my father was herdsman to the 

 Duke of Fife and when we had some of those beautiful cows 

 freshen, he would say 'Jean, take her', and I would get up. in 

 the night and relieve her udder, because we didn't want to see 

 her blemished in any way." I talked to that girl, and I had 

 my eyes opened to cattle breeding and dairying and I have 

 studied ever since. 



(Applause.) 



You will all want to know if I hired that girl and I will tell 

 you right here I didn't because I was ashamed to until I had 

 improved mv methods ; but T went home to the Cerman woman, 

 — she looked good enough to me at night, — and 1 said "You were 



