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and five under 1,000 pounds each. The average of the four, 1,158 pounds, 

 and of the five 855 pounds. The average net profit of the four was $67.96, 

 and of the five $00.90. The difference, as will be seen, was about $7.00 

 each, or nearly 11% per cent, in favor of the larger cows. 



The President: Any questions to be asked in connection with this 

 subject? 



I will take this opportunity to thank the Superintendent of the Reform 

 School for this beautiful gavel for maintaining order in this Association. I 

 assure you that if we have any tendency to be stormy in the future, I will 

 pound peace and quiet into the Association. We will accept this with the 

 thanks of the Association, and it will be passed from generation to genera- 

 tion to maintain order with. 



We will now have a selection by the Glee Club. 



Selection by Reform School Glee Club. 



The President: Professor Decker finds it necessary to get away on 

 the noon train, and so I have taken the liberty of changing his subject to 

 this morning and placed Professor Erf's for this afternoon. We will 

 bear Professor Decker next on the subject of 



HOW rO GET A BETTER PRICE FOR BUTTER. 



PROFESSOR J. W. DECKER, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



I want to say that I am glad that I came to your State Dairy meeting, 

 and that I have enjoyed it every minute of the time I have been here, and 

 not least among the things that I have enjoyed has been the singing of 

 the boys. I wish when I was a boy, I could have had training equal to 

 these boys. 



The subject, "How to Get a Better Price for Butter," is one that is very 

 easily answered— make better butter. I don't mean this for a joke at all. 

 I rememlier one of the farmers' institutes, when George McKerrow, who 

 is now Superintendent of Institutes in Wisconsin, was present at Mani- 

 towoc. They had a three days' session. He was to close the institute with 

 a talk on sheep husbandry, and he said he hoped they would all ask ques- 

 tions when he got through, because that was the way to have a good insti- 

 tute. In the audience there was an old Dutchman on the front seat, and 

 the speaker cracked jokes, but he would not smile at all. After Mr. 

 McKerrow got through, he asked if there were any questions, and the 

 Dutchman raised his hand. "What is it?" he says. "May I ask a ques- 

 tion?" Mr. McKerrow says: "Yes, we would be glad for you to ask a 

 question." He says: "Why isn't there so much black wool as white 



