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all of their milk, prepared to furnish their respective places with milk 

 for family use, and the consequences — Train loads of good, pure, unadul- 

 terated milk may be seen going into the larger cities, and car loads and 

 wagon loads into the smaller places every morning. 



The pure quality of this milk increased the consumption, and with 

 the increased demand the price got better and the dairyman felt com- 

 pensated for early rising and for the work necessary to prepare his 

 product for market. 



The man who lived farther from market, and the man who wanted 

 iiis milk to raise calves and pigs, the man that used to be entirely left 

 'bec^.use of his location, was not forgotten. In the new order of things 

 he was well taken care of. He was provided with a good market, and 



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JERSEY cow "OONAN OF RIVERSIDE," 69773. 



Official record for seven days Is 3.15.4 pounds of milk, which produced 34 pounds 

 3 ounces of butter. This photograph takou in lii-r nfieonth year. Owned by Dr. C. E. 

 Still Kirlvsville, Mo. 



every day the roads were lined with light wagons that glistened with 

 milk cans full of good, rich cream on its way to the nearest railroad 

 station, to be shipped to some large centralized creamery in Kansas City, 

 St. Joseph, Hannibal, or some other enterprising Missouri city. 



Thousands of hand separators were sold. The cream was taken 

 .out of the milk while fresh, and the clean, warm skim milk was used 



