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Ques, Do you think that the making of cheese is more eco- 

 nomical than selling the milk at Borden's Condensed Milk Fac- 

 tory, if you are within easy distance of the factory? 



Ans. We belonged to a testing association for something 

 like two years and I can give you somewhere near the records 

 of 13 of my cows that finished a year's record at about the same 

 time, and perhaps you can judge from that. They netted me 

 aside from the feed something over $1,500, in making cheese 

 about 7 months and selling the milk in the winter to Whiting. 

 We reckoned nothing for the whey and said nothing of the 

 work. Whiting paid up to $1.90. We lived within three miles 

 and the team took it for nothing. In figuring on selling the 

 milk it would have been considerably less than $100 apiece 

 for the cows to pay; and I am of the opinion of a great many 

 people, that it is not a good idea to carry everything ofif from 

 the farm. Of course some of us have to do it but I think quite 

 a good deal of having even the whey. We carry about ten 

 hogs on a small pasture and what whey comes from 20 cows 

 with very little grain. 



Ques. Have you ever tried raising calves on the whey? 



Ans. Some of the finest cows in our herd were raised on 

 nothing but whey for drink. Of course we used grain to sub- 

 stitute for the fat. 



Ques. How long do you give the calves milk before put- 

 ting them on the whey? 



Ans. We carry them on milk two or three weeks and then 

 change them carefully to whey and use a mixture of grain. 



Ques. What do you use for greasing the cheese ? 



Ans. At present we are using compound lard mostly. We 

 use sometimes the suet from a beef cow, but in winter it is too 

 hard. 



Ques. How heavy are the weights you put on the curd? 



Ans. I believe they weigh 20 pounds each. The tin drainers 

 are all in two long sinks connected together. My wife found it 

 very hard to lift those weights, so I arranged some pulleys and 

 they are both lifted at once with a crank. 



