ILLUSTRATIONS 



A splen4id specimen in ipilking Shorthorn 

 Inoquette, a French Canadian cow 

 Butter and cheese tryer .... 

 Styles of milking stools .... 

 The Rose Twins: for the dear children's sake, 



milk should be pure .... 

 Perpendicular Curd Knife .... 

 Horizontal Curd Knife .... 

 Curd from milk cooled but not aerated, and curd 



from milk aerated and cooled 

 Device employed by the author and her sister for 



pressing first-prize home-made cheese 

 Soft cheeses, finished and in process of making 

 The power of pioneer days 

 Profitable consumers of the by-products of the 



dairy ....... 



Glassware for the Babcock fat test 

 Handy weighing and sampling apparatus for test- 

 ing cows 



Lactometer 



The common house fly, the most dangerous animal 



on earth ....... 



Combined milk-stand and ice-house, with truck on 



rails from stable 



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