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BOAED OF AGKICDLTUEE. 



But to return to the cows, we aiui to keep nothing but fine Jerseys 

 as soon as we can get to that. We have bought and sold and bought and 

 sold, until at present we have only nine cows and just seven of them are 

 giving milk. Six of them are full blood Jerseys, not registered, but 

 descendants of registered stock. We are using a good but plain old 

 fashioned barn, and do not use stanchions, but use the box stall. Each 

 stall is about twelve by twelve feet. We place two cows in each stall, 

 thus giving the whole size of the stall to each cow for exercise. We keep 

 them well bedded, so it is something like Terry's barn lot. 



We believe the comfort of the cow counts for something, and it does 

 seem there would be a good deal of monotony about standing in a 

 stanchion all day long. Men and women were formerly placed in similar 

 devices as a punishment for small crimes. I am not arguing against 

 stanchions, and when we build a new barn we shall probably put them 

 in just to be up with the times. Yet we will do it Avith a feeling that 

 they are not altogether free from objections. 



We have not yet built a silo. You see it is only a year since we 

 decided to go into the butter business. We intended to build one last 

 summer but we were tiying to get the summer work done first, and 

 by the time that was done our crop of corn was too far advanced for 

 silage. We are fully aware of the merits of the silo, and would not 

 think of continuing our business without one. We shall have silage to 

 feed next winter. We use shredded fodder, clover and timothy hay for 

 roughage, using timothy when we can not get the clover. In the way of 

 mill feeds we use wheat bran, hominy meal and oat meal. I sometimes 

 use a mixture of one measure of hominy meal to two of bran. Some- 

 times, but not often, we use wheat bran alone, and often we put a 

 pint cupful of oatmeal in the b^-au. We give each cow a two-gallon 

 bucketful at each feed except when hominy meal is part of the mixture, 

 then we give a little less, because the meal is much heavier than the 

 bran. The hominy meal we use is from a local mill and has not had ihe 

 oil extracted from it. We usually add about one ounce of salt to each 

 feed. In summer our cows run on pasture that is a mixture of clover 

 and gi-ass, and have a small amount of bran twice a day, varyiug the 

 amount from a half gallon cupful up, according to the condition of the 

 pasture. 



We have purchased a registered Jersey sire and will try to build our 

 herd up by saving calves from our best cows. The others Ave sell to the 

 butcher as soon as we can get him to take them. All calves are taken 

 from cows immediately and fed on mothers' milk until about nine days 

 old, then a mixture of whole milk and a little oat meal, bran, shelled 

 corn, or whatever is most convenient. 



We do not keep our accounts in pounds but in dollars and cents. 

 We sell a good deal of milk to the milkman Avho passes our house. He 

 phones ahead and we have it ready for him when he comes past. He 



