Official history of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board . rted down the road. He knows what milking a large number of cowsbefore and after field work each day means. Nearly every dairyman who has used a milking machine for six months ormore and knows how to handle it properly declares that there is nothing like it;if he had to go back to the old method of milking by hand, he would go out of busi-ness at once. With two good machines, one can milk at least 20 cows in half anhour, which means that at least an hour and a halfs time is saved. To most farmersan hour and a half is worth a good deal
Official history of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board . rted down the road. He knows what milking a large number of cowsbefore and after field work each day means. Nearly every dairyman who has used a milking machine for six months ormore and knows how to handle it properly declares that there is nothing like it;if he had to go back to the old method of milking by hand, he would go out of busi-ness at once. With two good machines, one can milk at least 20 cows in half anhour, which means that at least an hour and a halfs time is saved. To most farmersan hour and a half is worth a good deal in these times of help scarcity. It is such labor-saving appliances as the milking machine that keep our boyson the farm. It is drudgery that sends boys to the city, and to most boys milkingcows after coming in from the fields is the worst kind of drudgery. The milking machine is one of the forces which are making the farm a betterplace to live, the farmers life more pleasant, less slavish. 295 HISTORY OF THE CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD W. E. AITKEN. w. •^y^i^m^mmmm^^: t k t e. aitken is of Scotch descent. He is the son ofMr. and Mrs. James Ait-ken, and hy his wife, Emma Carey,he has two sons and four is a l^iberal ui pohtics. His farmof loo acres, located West 14 Lot 22,First Concession, CharlottenburgTownship, carries a stock of 26cattle—graded Ayrshires and Hol-steins—6 horses, 10 swine and 30 fowl,and the annual yield is 400 bushelsgram, 70 tons hay, and an assortmentof fruit, and vegetables for own Aitkens herd of cattle show adaily average of 300 pounds milk fora period of seven months, which he delivers at the River Bank Factory. Oursubject has spent his life at farming, and for twenty-one years has been a patronof the Cheese Board. PETER B. BAKER PETER B. BAKER was born sixty-eight years ago at Summerstown, Glen-garry Countv. He is the son of Stephen Baker. His wife was KatherineMurchison. He has four sons and one daughter. He is a Presby
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