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to twenty-four cows are considered a "string", and by the time a man 

 feeds, grooms, milks, and cleans stables for this number of cows 

 he is considered as having done a fair day's work. In summer 

 when the cows go to pasture, the work of feeding and cleaning stables 

 is considerably reduced and a man will have time for some other 

 work. On some dairy farms, it is the practice to pay hired help 

 higher wages during the summer months and require more hours 

 work per day than during the winter season. In some cases, as 

 high as $50.00 per month is paid during part of the summer, with 

 the winter wage at $30.00 per month. These wages as well as the 

 averages given in the foregoing table, include board and lodging. 



Quite a number of the larger dairymen, and particularly the 

 breeders of pure bred stock, employ men with families, furnishing 

 them with house and certain privileges in the line of garden, poultry, 

 and dairy products. Where men are employed under this sort of 

 arrangement, the wages range from $50.00 to $75.00 per month. 

 In case the help is given a large measure of responsibility his com- 

 pensation will be still higher. In still other cases a man and wife 

 both are employed, the wife helping with the house work, and both 

 having their board furnished by the management. Under such an 

 arrangement, man and wife jointly receive $60.00 to $90.00 per 

 month. 



BREEDS OF CATTLE. 



*P. B. means pure bred. 



In several cases two or more bulls were reported on one farm. 



