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don't you use that machine?" He said, "We do not have many 

 cows and we do not want to bother." I said, "Didn't you take 

 that machine off your cows ?" He said, "Don't tell it aloud, but I 

 do not want to ruin any company." A milking machine, so far 

 as I know, is not a success. I will say, for young heifers, if you 

 start it in, it is all right, but an old cow is Hke an old man — he 

 can't be taught new tricks. 



Mr. Mason : How much do you pay a man ? 



Mr. Julian : I do not keep a man to milk. My son and I 

 do the milking ; at least my son helps me when his mother thinks 

 it is time for him to get up, she calls him. Sometimes I have 

 eighteen milked before he starts in. I have no complaint to make 

 for it would do me no good. I commence to milk the same time 

 in the evening as I do in the morning. Out in that country I 

 know men who work until sundown ploughing corn and then 

 milk their cows after that ; that is, require their help to do that. 

 Do you blame a man for kicking? I believe I would kick the 

 boss. There is no reason why a man should work all day, then 

 expect him to work after dark. Some old m"fen say they want 

 to milk at night after the flies are gone. Some of my neighbors 

 kick because I quit early. I keep a hired man part of the time. 

 I do not milk as many in winter as I do in summer. I do not 

 ask the hired man to milk. He works until 6:00 o'clock and 

 then quits. All I expect him to do after supper is to go out and 

 take care of those cows. 



I take fifteen daily and weekly papers. Do you think those 

 hired men will read any of them? Not much! They go over 

 town and stay until 12:00 o'clock. H I say a word he is gone 

 and that is all there is to it. 



