OLD HOMESTEAD 



with her hands," and whose ''own works praise her in the 

 gates;" but times have changed, and if the wise old king should 

 come back now looking for the model woman he so highly 

 praised and admired, he would probably find her down town on 

 a bicycle instead of at home making the ''fine linen" which 

 was so popular in his time. Instead of ''laying her hands to 

 the spindle and distaff," she now handles the "driver" and the 

 "putter" at the golf links. 



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THE DAIRY 



After the farm was cleared up, or partially cleared up, and the 

 potash and mill industries had waned, and the farm, which was 

 once paid for, through the vicissitudes of too much outside busi- 

 ness was again mortgaged, more attention was given to the legit- 

 imate business of farming. 



Lorraine was better adapted to dairying than anything else. 

 About the time of my first recollection our people had a dairy of 

 twenty-five or thirty cows. Dairying could be carried on with- 

 out the employment of much outside help, and the profit that 

 came from it and all other farming was practically the simple 

 earnings of the family. In this farming has not changed; if the 

 farmer does his own work he will make something. It requires 

 one dollar and fifty cents worth of work to get a dollar. If the 

 labor is hired, it is easy to see how the farmer comes out. 



The care of the cows and rearing of calves and management 

 of a dairy requires good judgment, close attention and hard work. 

 The product, however, is always salable for cash, and the es- 

 tablishment of dairies was the thing which first brought money 

 to the town and began to make the farmers independent. In 



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