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and their calves are not the kind that are given away at the pres- 

 ent time. Results of this kind are what make enthusiastic dairy- 

 men and turn drudgery into pleasure. 



Around the World in a Cow Stable. 



People do not stop to consider the amount of time that 

 might be saved if a little more intelligence were exercised in 

 tasks done two or three times each day. To illustrate this, take 

 the matter of having the milk room inconveniently located. If 

 the milker carries the milk of each cow fifty feet farther than 

 need be, that means three rods and back each milking, or twelve 

 rods per cow each day. If a man milks twelve cows it causes 

 the extra labor of carrying a pail of milk seventy-two rods and 

 carrying back the empty pail each day. In a herd of sixty cows, 

 the milkers would walk 360 rods and back, or a total distance 

 traveled of two and one- fourth miles per day. For a single milker 

 it would mean 164 miles extra walking per year. If a man com- 

 menced doing this when he was fifteen years old and kept it up 

 for fifty years, he would have walked 8,200 miles, or one-third 

 the distance around the world. Yet all of this labor might have 

 beqn saved by a little head work in planning the arrangement 

 of the building so as to make it unnecessary to carry the milk the 

 extra fifty feet. 



If this saving of time be true with simply the operation of 

 milking, what does it mean when all the numberless details of 

 feeding, cleaning out stables, bedding, etc., are considered for a 

 lifetime? It means the saving of several trips around the world 

 for the dairyman. The dairyman who uses his brain sufficiently 

 to fully appreciate and put into practice true dairy economy, can 

 and should make trips around the world, but doubtless he would 

 appreciate this traveling better if it were done in a Pullman car 

 and ocean liner, than in his own cow stable. 



Loss of One-Half in Making Poor Butter. 



Still another loss of no small amount to the dairyman re- 

 sults from the sale of much low grade butter to the grocery, and 

 ultimately to the renovating factories, for about one-half the 



