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of the calling is shown in the facility with which men prosper 

 in the business though the knowledge of these things is most 

 meagre or non-existent. Practical experience has made and 

 is making successful farmers, but "knowledge is power," and 

 memory and imagination, judgment and foresight, reason and 

 will, all schooled to a purpose, may find upon the farm all 

 needful room for movement and play. 



The modern method of farming by machinery has greatly 

 lightened the labors of the farmer's wife. They are too long 

 gone to mention in this connection candle-making, spinning 

 and weaving, but the whole method of taking care of milk 

 and manufacturing its products was changed but yesterday. 

 It was the women who formerly did the milking the men did 

 not have time. And when the milk was drawn, it was poured 

 into numerous shallow pans where, in a cool place, it was 

 allowed to stand for twelve to twenty-four hours. The cream, 

 by reason of its lighter weight, having risen to the surface 

 where it formed a thick coating, was carefully "skimmed" 

 off by means of a piece of perforated tin, and finally, when 

 churning day came, was placed in a churn and beaten into 

 butter by the tiresome and monotonous movement of a hand 

 dasher. Then came the "Creamery," with its centrifugal cream 

 separator, and for miles around the whole-milk was hauled 

 to the factory where the "skimming" was done in a moment, 

 the cream sold, thus eliminating the butter-making from the 

 household, the farmer hauling back the skimmed milk for his 

 hogs and calves. The cream soon came to be paid for by the 

 per cent, of butter-fat which it contained, and the farmer 

 could not feel sure that it was his own cream or that of some 

 other man for which he was paid, and so an individual sepa- 

 rator was put on the market, and is now immensely popular. 



