898 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



for absorbing milk from tlieir patrons cans into their own can by the 

 time they reached the creamery. And this didn't pay the farmer either, 

 but it surely did add to the haulers income. 



Now the farmer had his choice of doing the impossible thing of haul- 

 ing his own milk or paying twentj'-five dollars for a twenty-five dollar 

 hand separator. 



The farmer chose the lesser of the two evils and bought the separator 

 and now nine out of every ten has his herd of from eight to twentj^ ,or 

 even more cows; his cow barn, his sprayer to kill the flies, so that he can 

 milk in peace, and the hand separator, and has gone into the money mak- 

 ing business for himself. 



It only takes about one half hour to separate the milk, feed the 

 valves and carry what is left to the hogs, (which converts all the waste of 

 dairying into golden eagles, and the milk has never been down cellar once. 

 Of course the separator will have to be washed, and during the summer 

 the separator house will have to be scrubbed once a day but this is not 

 one-half so hard on the farmer's wife as the old way. I know, for I have 

 tried both. By the old way I had plenty of hard work and no pay; and now 

 I have some work and plenty of money in my pocket book — and so have all 

 the farmer's wives who have separators. Some of my neighbors have 

 made as high as eight dollars a month per cow, and from the Adair 

 creamery too. This is an exceptional case, but true, never the less. 



Under the present system a good cow will bring $50.00 profit each 

 year. This includes the calf, the cream, and the milk for hogs, to 

 say nothing of milk and butter for house use. 



It is possible to keep four or five cows for every member of the 

 farmers family over twelve years of age, and run fewer risks of being 

 maimed for life as their city cousins will in one game of foot-ball. 



Twenty cows well-milked and well taken care of means an income 

 of $1000.00 to the farmer each year. One half this number will clothe and 

 buy all the !j;roceries needed by any one family and kctp them from ruuuing 

 a store bill. 



Before the day of the hand separator it took all that hundreds of 

 farmers raised to pay their store bill. Now the cows keep the family, 

 leaving what the farmer raises to pay the mortgage, make improvements 

 and add to his farm. 



It requires no more brains to milk cows than to farm for grains. 

 Brains are not needed one-half as much as a closer use of the ones we 

 already possess. 



The cows will make you more money in less time and let you work 

 in the cooler part of the day, than simply farming for grain, but to make 

 a successful farmer and keep the land enriched you will have to do both. 

 True, milking must be dene when the time comes. It is work that is 

 binding and keeps one at close at home but in the end it pays. 



