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care and skill of the dairymen more than on its own mother. 

 Thousands have gone to untimely infant graves, and have 

 been mourned by relatives and by mothers who would not be 

 comforted, for their babes were not, leaving parents bereft 

 forever and their days saddened and shortened, and perhaps 

 the family name extinguished, — because of milk improperly 

 cared for, through ignorance or negligence. Is this responsible 

 work to be intrusted to the cheap laborer ? 



Is it a wonder that there is a scarcity of farm labor on dairy 

 farms, — where eleven or twelve hours of careful work are 

 required daily, and at least one-half that amount Sundays, for 

 $20 or $25 a month and board, less than 15 cents an hour, 

 while the crudest kind of foreign labor gets that or more, and 

 artisans, with no more intelligence or skill than we need in 

 our dairy business, command 30 to -10 cents an hour. Very 

 true, the projirietor pays all that he can aiford, and perhaps 

 more than he himself receives, after allowing for interest on 

 his investment, and figm-ing pay by the hour for himself and 

 family. 



Oh, no, I am not a pessimist ; I love farm life, and I love 

 the dairy cow; and I believe that there is abundant opportu- 

 nity for thousands of New England farmers to make a success 

 that will entitle them to as good a living and all the comforts 

 enjoyed by city residents by furnishing our prosperous and 

 growing manufacturing cities with a pure, wholesome milk, 

 produced and handled under sanitary conditions, at a fair 

 price. 



The dairyman is not avaricious ; he is satisfied to work 

 hard, attend faithfully to his business, and give clean, honest 

 goods every day in the year, if he can receive enough to pay 

 his help proper wages, pay for grain, tools, etc., and receive 

 5 per cent on his investment and 25 cents an hour for his 

 labor, — and what other business man of equal capacity asks 

 less? This we should get, and must get, to be fair to our- 

 selves and to our families. But. mind you. this is not for the 

 investor, who leaves the management of his dairy to hired 

 help, — God never intended the dairy business to make the 

 rich lover of ease richer ; nor for the slothful man, who gives 

 his herd little care and study ; nor for the keeper of cows giv- 



