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vocation that they are to follow. I was talking with a farmer 

 today who said that he wished that his boy was his girl and his 

 girl his boy. The boy is all machinery, while the girl likes 

 farming. He is wisely letting the boy follow his natural bent, 

 and is educating him in a technical way. If the farm-born child 

 can only have an opportunity to see what is going on ; if he can 

 only understand "why ;" if he can have the chance to study agri- 

 culture — and that does not necessarily mean the State College 

 or Station, it means the grange, agricultural books and news- 

 papers, any one or more of the multitude of ways which exist 

 today whereby one may get agricultural light ; if he has given 

 him every chance possible to broaden his horizon, there is a far 

 greater likelihood, in my judgment, that he will stay on the 

 farm, and aid in the renovation, the making new again of New 

 England agriculture. 



OuES. Will you tell us about pasteurization? 

 Ans. Pasteurization is a process whereby bacteria may be 

 killed by the means of heat. If milk be heated for varying 

 lengths of time and temperatures ranging from 140 to 155 degrees 

 and then rapidly cooled, from 99 to 99^ per cent of the bacteria 

 may be killed, including all of the disease producing germs. If 

 the process be properly carried out, the keeping quality of the 

 milk will be materially enhanced. This does not injure the milk 

 for butter making, and in most cases does not injure it for other 

 uses. It is a question whether pasteurized milk is good as a 

 regular diet for infants for a number of months continuously. 

 Ques. How do you proportion your grain feed? 

 Ans. My judgment is that bran should make up at least one- 

 half by weight of a cow's ration. I like it, not because it is par- 

 ticularly rich, but because of its light, flaky character and because 

 it helps lighten the ration. It is less digestible than the heavier 

 feeds, yet seems to aid digestion. The remainder may be made 

 up of cottonseed and linseed or cottonseed and gluten. One of 

 the best rations we have used contained five pounds of bran, one 

 and one-half pounds of cottonseed and one and one-half pounds 

 of linseed meals. 



Ques. Is milk made on a cottonseed ration injurious to 

 infants ? 



Ans. I do not know that it is. I have heard the notion 

 advanced, but I have never, myself, known of any bad effects. 



