TlIIKTY-SIXTH AnJS^UAL CONVENTION 1001 



Prof. Van Pelt : I j^racticallj covered that a while ago in 

 speaking of feeding the cut straw with grain. I consider that a 

 very valuable process of feeding. It always seems to nie there is 

 more value in corn stover and straw than we can determine by 

 the chemical analysis. It would be a very foolish idea for us to 

 expect our cows to get along from the standpoint of roughage 

 with just corn stover and straw and timothy hay. But when 

 we are feeding our cows a sufficient amount of protein feeds, 

 sweet clover hay, etc., then an occasional feed once a day of straw 

 or stover or timothy hay, by way of variety and for furnishing 

 dry matter and bulk, is very valuable. 



Voice : Does the extra weighing and extra feeding require 

 more help ? 



Pkof. Van Pelt : Very likely a system of that kind would 

 require more help and I recognize the fact that help is scarce. 

 1 do not recognize the fact that there is any particular reason 

 why helji should be scarce unless it is because there is something 

 wrong with our system. I know that farmers around my town 

 complain that it is impossible to get help and they excuse them- 

 selves for not doing a great many things they ought to do because 

 help is scarce. I really am inclined to think that this is more of 

 an excuse than a reality, because in my town we have one factory 

 that works 700 men. They get smaller wages than the farmers 

 are willing to pay. They work all day in dirt and grime, but 

 for some reason or other tliev come in from the farms and work 

 in factories. I have talked with those fellows, because I have 

 wondered, and have had them say to me that they would rather 

 go out and work on a farm if conditions were different. They 

 want work the year around, and I presume that you men who 

 are in the dairy business do not have the trouble with labor that 

 many of our fanners do who have a great lot of work during the 

 summer and nothing in the winter. The labor problem is one 

 that every man must solve for himself on his own farm. Men 

 have solved it and are solving it. I think it is not a question 

 so much as to whether you can get the help as to whether you 

 can make the helji earn money for you. If they will make money 

 for you and for themselves too there ought not to be much troul)le. 



Mr. Barrett : How can a persistent milker be turned dry ? 



