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Show ONE GREAT DAIRY DRAWBACK Monotony of Having to Milk Largo Number of Cows Daily Keeps Many Men Out of Business. The tedious task of hand milking has been one of the greatest drawbacks the dairying industry has had. The monotony of having to milk n large number of cows each day has kept many men from entering the business when they might have made a great success of it. Machine milking is not only feasible, but It Is practicable, there being thousands of cows machine-milked each day in the countr. 4 17 "$ ' 'r Prize Stock on Oklahoma Farm. They are milked faster and more gently gen-tly than most hand-milked cows. One man can milk 12 to 25 cows an hour with the proper equipment of machine. The speed made depends more on the operator than on the machine. ma-chine. However, if you hud to hire one man eight hours each day to do the milking, you would get more profit than you would by taking a half-dozen half-dozen farmhands from the fields an hour earlier than they should 'quit ! wrk. In the pst much trouble has been experienced in getting eificieut machines. ma-chines. Many of the earlier makes left much milk in the udders to be removed re-moved by hand.. Great improvements have been made in the last few years, however, and now machines can be had that will remove practically all the milk. |