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him to currying the cows. He said, "Is this the way you do." 



I answered, yes. He said : "I will be if I will do it." I said : 



"You will or you will get out." So he went, so you see the kind 

 of help we get there. These young men are going to Dakota 

 and getting homesteads. I don't blame them. We have to pay 

 $2.00 to $2.50 a day and board them besides. 



Two years ago I had a considerable amount of clover hay. I 

 had never used a hay loader. I was unable to get help without 

 paying large money, but I finally was successful in hiring a good 

 strong man and we went out to put up the hay, and he said he 

 would have to do the pitching. I was fifty-three and a slender 

 man, and he was young and weighed 240 pounds. I was to pay 

 him $2.00 a day. I decided to let him go and I put in a hay 

 loader, and I finally put up the clover hay with the help of a boy. 

 Boys will do a lot of work and work cheap. I could get the boy 

 •to ride on the wagon and drive the team, and with the help of 

 that boy I put in forty acres of clover hay. 



When it comes to dairying and a herd of dairy cows, how 

 ever, there is trouble ahead, or many would be successful dairy- 

 men. 



There are three essentials in successful dairying: good cows, 

 plenty of good feed and good care and management. Without 

 these three in combination, successful dairying cannot be main- 

 tained. Who are the men who are successful dairymen of our 

 country ? Are they not the men who read the best literature per- 

 taining to dairying, who think and study on the best methods to 

 be followed and that will fit their particular case, for what might 

 be sound practice in one section of the country might be very un- 

 sound in another part. Good cows, good feed and good care 

 with an intelligent, reading, thinking man behind the whole busi- 

 ness will make dairying the most profitable line of business on 

 the farm, while poor cows, poor feed and poor care will bankrupt 

 a banker. 



Now I want to say a word in regard to dairy literature. We 

 have at our co-operative creamery 125 patrons. Do you believe 

 out of those 125 patrons, even in Iowa, we could get twelve to 

 read Hoard's Dairyman, or papers devoted to dairying interests ? 



