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Show COST OF NOT DOING. By E. L. Vincent. Quite often we arc kept from, doing do-ing things on the farm because, as. we say to ourselves, "It costs too n nch." It is a fact that there is" a cost connected with almost everything we do. It costs to milk cows clean a bit of time and strength more? it costs to keep the stable neat and clean, it .costs to wash everything as well as we can; and the cost is increasing in-creasing if we arc compelled to pay , high-priced help. But have we ever thought of the cost of not doing our work the very ibest we can? It will pay us to stop a moment just now and think of that side of it. Take the matter of milking, milk-ing, just referred to. We all know that the strippings ate the richest part of all we get from the cow Over Ov-er and over again this has been proven prov-en iby men who have tested the matter. mat-ter. Suppose we get in a hurry milking is always done in a hurry anyyay and1 leave some of this richest of milk in the cow's udder. What then? Well, then we are robbed by ourselves. our-selves. Just so much less profit from a cow. If we have a big dairy, just a little of this kind of carelessness or negligence, as you may look at it, and the loss is really great. If we could know just how great, I am sure that we would be startled into turning turn-ing over a new leaf. Last summer I had a bit of experience ex-perience in this line, although the re-, suit was more serious than might be thought at first blush. An old man was milking two cows. His hands were stiff and clumsy. He did not draw all the milk from the udders. The consequence was that the udders ud-ders of both the cows got in a terrible terri-ble condition. They were hard in the wind quarters and little milk came from them. I milked these cows myself the next eight weeks. Every time I took the greatest pains to get the last drop ' of milk. I stroked thdir bags and did my best to soften them up. Before Be-fore the eight weeks were gone I had their udders in' pretty good shape. It was all in the milking. Since then ' during the writer's absence for a time, th'c old man again milked these same cows and as result their bags arc ruined, so the cows will have to go for beef. Ruined, all on account of poor milking. Docs neglect cost anything? Answer Ans-wer that 'for yourself. |