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BUTTER-MAKING. 



average sized dairy farms. If a man keeps at least twenty 

 good cows in milk at the time, and makes dairying a business, 

 not a side issue, and is willing and able to care for the machine 

 as it should be cared for, then the milking-machine can appar- 

 ently be economically and successfully operated. The milking- 

 machine question is still in a transitional period and shall not 

 be considered in detail at this writing. 



FIG. 21. De Schmidt milking-machine. 



All of the above machines are represented by their 

 respective inventors and manufacturers to do successful 

 work. Whether a milking-machine will ever be perfected 

 which can imitate nature's methods as closely as the human 

 hands, is a question which has yet to be solved. 



