Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

by WILBUR D. NESBIT

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(A Michigan farmer claims to have lncreased the output of his dairy by having musical selections rendered during the milking hour.> “Where are you going, my pretty maid?" “I’m going milking, sir,* she said. "Where is your bucket, my pretty maid?" “I carry a music roll,' she said, "The bucket is hung on the dairy wall Just back of the crabbed old short horn’s stall.” "I’ll carry your stool for you, my pretty maid.” / "I sit on a music stool,” she said, “I sit on a music stool and play While gaily the milkers milk away. - J . ’ v . ' i “I open the hour with a fugue by Lizt, Then play an etude if the cows insist. But nothing from Wagner nor all hla ilk— Their thunderous music would sour the milk. - “ "When Molly, the Jersey, is milked with pride I always play ‘Down by the Jerseyside,! When common old farm cows are milked.* you see, <■ I play them a rube song—all-dufn-ee. ; - j “Don’t faint, and don't flee, for I’ll teO so more v Of the tunes that I play on the dairy floor. Save that when the cows to the pasture stray I try ‘Over theßlUs and Far Awsy.* " 1 " -—-v ■ - - ■ " “And what do you play when the milk is shipped?" - “ ’Rippling Waters!. ” Then off sho tripped. | • f Vi* . - } ,