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send a mouthful of tobacco juice to the four winds, 

 there is always a suspicion that some of it found its 

 way into the pail. It is certainly one of the bad 

 habits that the dairyman can afford to dispense with. 

 What a blessing it would be if our farmer boys and all 

 the other boys too could be persuaded to let tobacco 

 alone. Boys, just ask your mother's advice about the 

 use of tobacco; then ask your father what he thinks of 

 mother's advice, and I know, even if he uses it himself, 

 he'll tell vou " mother is all right, don't touch it my 

 boy." 



Well, I think the girls do not like to have the boys 

 use tobacco either. Again, the girls do not hurry 

 through their work to visit the saloon or the pool room 

 to spend far more than their time and money; and 

 howl do wish they would mitten all the boys that do. 

 In our short experience the girls have been on hand 

 Sunday evening and all according to agreement; one 

 girl missed two milkings in nine months, another not 

 any. A young man tells me " they have the advan- 

 tage. They don't have to go to see the boys ; the 

 boys have to come to see them." 



The only bad feature that I see of the girls helping 

 milk is that it has a tendency to develop selfishness in 

 man. Almost invariably the hired men milk the 

 easiest cows. 



We have another industry on our farm where we 

 hire girls to assist with the work. We find them more 

 careful and conscientious about their work than boys 

 are apt to be at the same age. Things do not always 

 move smoothly, oh, no; there are ups and downs — 

 tempests as well as sunshine with the girls, and so 

 closely is woman's heart connected with her hands that 

 if there is any trouble in love affairs it is quite likely 



