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to be raised to 15 cents a quart, and the farm has paid all 

 expenses, besides increasing its stock and equipment from its 

 earnings. 



The man who can manipulate his fingers so as to rapidly 

 extract the milk from a cow's udder can certainly learn to 

 wipe a lead joint or wield a mason's trowel. The man who 

 can successfully manage a pair of horses, can develop execu- 

 tive ability enough to build a railroad. The man who has 

 patience enough to drive an ox team or milk an Ayrshire 

 heifer, could learn to spend a day in building a staging in 

 preparation for driving one hundred nails ten feet from the 

 ground, and so be a carpenter; and has staying qualities 

 enough to become a life insurance agent, who talks and waits 

 for business. The man who can fix a broken mower so that it 

 will cut grass, with the horses hitched to it, in fly time, out in 

 the blistering sun, or can repair a manure spreader in the 

 field, while lying under it in the snow in zero weather, could 

 probably, after four years of apprenticeship, become a ma- 

 chinist. And he who is willing to double himself up under 

 the battering end of ten to fifteen cows, by the light of a lan- 

 tern, twice a day, and endure with patience the possible bat- 

 tering from hoofs in front and hoofs behind, and the certainty 

 of having his face lashed with not less than two tails, dry or 

 wet, and is supposed to have no thought but that of keeping 

 the visible and the invisible dust from his pail, and giving no 

 vent to his pain except an occasional " So, boss, so," or " Care- 

 ful, now," is certainly courageous enough to be a soldier, and 

 has grit and insensibility of feeling enough to become a gi'eat 

 lawyer. 



And the licensed druggist problems are simple compared 

 with the complex ]iroblem of feeding and preserving the health 

 of the dairy animal ; extracting the milk which is created near 

 the floor of a cow stable and near the dirty end of the animal, 

 without letting it come in contact with the human hand or 

 become contaminated with dust, laden with the harmful bac- 

 teria with which the stable is filled ; putting it into a sterilized 

 pail, and immediately cooling it where the air is pure ; placing 

 it in clean bottles or cans ; and delivering it to the precious 

 baby, Avhose very life sometimes depends on the cow and the 



