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beds are concerned, and open up a way that will ena- 

 ble every dairyman to make more profit on one cow 

 than formerly made on two, thereby lessening his 

 labor, increasing his prosperity and giving him time to 

 attend to the other duties of life, then the great work 

 of the dairy department of the World's Fair shall have 

 proved to have been " a pearl of great price" to the 

 dairymen of Illinois. 



Music: Singing by High School. 



ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE IN DAIRYING. 



MRS. CHAS. BEEDE, Chadwick, Henry Co., III. 

 Living on a farm all my life, I do not recall a time 

 that I was not interested in dairying. My father kept 

 a good many cows, and as it was the fashion in my 

 youthful days, the dairying was done in the summer 

 season. Strange, how happy, free-from-care childhood' 

 has a way of throwing a glamour around the common- 

 place things of life ! Surely there is a charm about 

 that butter-making of my childhood days that time and 

 maturer judgment may have rudely changed, but not 

 destroyed. The dairyman knows only too well that we 

 have a great deal of what the world calls drudgery 

 about the business now. In my early recollections 

 there was nothing of that. There was u the bringing 

 home the cows from the pasture." This pasture was 

 a tract of unfenced woodland that pastured the neigh- 

 borhood cattle and, I may well say, the neighborhood 

 children; for no sooner were the children home from 

 school than they were scurrying off to the woods, bread 

 and butter lunch in hand, after the cattle. 



