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the mowing machine. I know of a farm of which I happen 

 to have photographs of three generations of mowing ma- 

 chines, — a 4-foot, 5-foot and an 8-foot, — and the 8-foot 

 draws easier than anj of the others, tires the horses less, 

 also, because the 4-foot machine was built when the horses 

 had to draw a mowing machine that went northeast when 

 you went northwest. That is economy, — a straight im- 

 provement in machinery. So, all the way through farmers 

 are getting to use more horsepower; and a horse, properly 

 directed, is equal to ten men. 



Question. Are you willing to admit that on a good many 

 farms it would require three horses tO' plow what two would 

 do on another farm ? 



Professor Wakren. Certainly, certainly; but per man it 

 holds just the same. If the driver is driving two on that 

 farm, or three, and somebody else is driving one, he will 

 plow more acres' per man, but not any more per horse, ordi- 

 narily. 



Question. Can you compare the records of one man keep- 

 ing 20 cows and selling cream, and another keeping 20 cows 

 and selling milk ? 



Professor Warken. I had those slides, but I left them in 

 the hotel because I didn't want to mix this subject up. Mar- 

 ket milk pays considerably better than any other dairy 

 product. You have the same cost for dairying with market 

 milk that you do with the other. 



Question. At what rate per quart ? 



Professor Warren. At the rate we get in 'New York 

 State in any county, and in Massachusetts it will be more 

 emphatic, because you don't get for your butter proportion- 

 ately more than you do for your milk. I am more in favor 

 of market milk in this State than with us, because you make 

 more on your milk than you do on your butter. You don't 

 get any more than they do in Illinois for butter, unless you 

 retail it. 



Mr. R. H. Race. I would like to know what is the prac- 

 tical application of this morning's address. Are we going to 

 stay on the farm, or hire out for $60 a month ? 



Professor Warren. You are not going to get into the $60 



