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Milk Strikes and the Dairywoman 
If one were disposed to speak frivo¬ 
lously of anything so really serious as 
the' late “unpleasantness,” I should be 
inclined to head these words “Striking 
Thoughts of a Dairywoman,” but inas¬ 
much as we all know that farm women 
never strike, however great the provoca¬ 
tion, the latter title on the whole would 
be “strikingly” without point. 
The New Year’s milk strike is a thing 
of the past for a few more months, I 
hope, and if President Wilson and his co¬ 
statesmen could only abolish such local 
wars along with world wars, the poor, 
peacefully inclined milk-producers could 
pursue their inoffensive ways in quiet 
and harmony. But evidently such peace 
is not to be ours. Someone is unable to 
stand the thought that dairymen are 
making a lean profit for the first few 
years in history, and these anti-dairy 
conspirators seem to be lying awake 
nights to cook up trouble and slanders 
against the farmers. I for one wish the 
President would come to the rescue with 
14 points in the defense of milk and 
milkers—only no really smart and fair- 
minded man could hope to crowd the 
why and wherefores of our cause into 14 
points! 
But I started out to reminisce on the 
very recent strike as it affected the 
On the Way for Free Milk 
woman-partner. In most houses, it af¬ 
fected her for the time being far more 
than the man, because “setting" milk is 
our job in average home-dairy plants. 
But it did seem like declaring war out 
of a blue sky this time, for few farmers 
had received the slightest intimation of 
trouble brewing in the New York head¬ 
quarters. We got the news at nine P. M. 
the evening before New Year’s—that 
dealers were refusing to recognize the 
League, and to keep the milk at home 
until they came to terras. 
Now in many homes, in the great Em¬ 
pire State, I trust that this message 
wrought no special havoc or inconven¬ 
ience—all of us having experienced the 
delights from unpreparedness at the other 
strike, and having gone on record then 
that it would be a wise and strategic 
plan to buy a separator, or build a little 
creamery for emergencies—and so forth. 
But it is so easy to let such good reso¬ 
lutions “slide” when things straighten 
out once more—or at least the writer’s 
family found it so. Therefore the strike 
descended upon us unprepared as usual 
to care for our milk in a business-like 
and money-saving way—and confusion 
and inefficiency reigned. 
But the milk was kept at home—make 
no mistake about that—and every dish 
and kettle and pan in the pantries were 
washed up by the midnight lamp for bus¬ 
iness next morning. We were getting 
around five cans of milk, and while you 
may consider yourself amply supplied 
with utensils of sorts, they seem to 
dwindle way to half enough when called 
upon to enter the fray. I had to laugh 
to myself during our short siege in spite 
of my own troubles, as the tables seemed 
to be completely turned, and the man of 
the house found himself taking a sem¬ 
blance of a vacation, while the women¬ 
folk were never busier in their lives as 
the vessels of milk and cream standing 
everywhere bore evidence. 
Many farmers had some kind of live¬ 
stock to w hich the skim-milk was manna, 
but mi our farm, I am ashamed to admit 
Used in the Best Dairies — 
on the Finest Pedigreed Cows 
'IXT’HEN many of the country’s best known 
’ * dairies, whose owners keep the highest 
class and most valuable stock, thoroughly in¬ 
vestigate the mechanical milker question and 
then put their O. K. on the Hinman by install¬ 
ing it, it means that the Hinman must he correct 
in principle, a profit to the owner and a comfort 
to the cows. 
A man with a herd of high priced cows 
wouldn’t take a chance on a milker about 
which there was any question. The fact that 
the Hinman is used on so many fine, pedigreed 
and registered cows is a guide to you in the 
purchase of a milking machine. You are doing 
the safe and sure thing when you buy the milker 
that is the most favored of all by dairymen in 
general, as proved by the number of machines 
sold and in use. 
Big and little dairies install the Hinman to save a 
lot of time and to solve the help problem. Later they 
find that there are many other advantages. For in¬ 
stance, they find that cows that were hard milkers 
and others that were restless and nervous when 
milked by hand, were milked more easily and were 
more contented and comfortable after the use for a 
week or two of the Hinman! 
They found that the help liked the Hinman method 
far better than the hand method. Naturally, it was a 
great deal easier—did away with all the drudgery. 
Help prefer to work in a dairy that is Hinman 
equipped! 
They found in many cases that the milk flow im¬ 
proved, increased with the use of Hinman Milkers. 
And the milk was cleaner—showed a better bac¬ 
terial test. 
They found that their simple Hinman 
equipment paid in actual extra profits 
enough to cover its entire cost within 
a year! 
You are offered all these advantages. The cost is 
low compared to all that you get. Merely to be re¬ 
lieved of that back-breaking work of hand milking is 
enough to justify installing the Hinman! Think of it 
—no more sitting on a hard stool, crowding up under 
a cow, perspiring, chasing away the flies! 
The machine does all the milking for you 
—and does it better, more uniformly. 
Don’t be without Hinman Milkers. It isn’t like 
tying up more money for mere pleasure. You get 
back all you spend in a very short time and then 
it’s that much extra profit 
right along! 
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enlightening and is full of impressive 
illustrations. A postal will bring a 
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Oneida, N. Y. 
In stock at many convenient shipping points 
Lowest Cost 
Because the 
Hinman is simple 
has no station¬ 
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tank, vacuum 
gauge, relief valve, 
pipe line and pul- 
sator—its cost is 
about half that of 
other milkers. 
