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ventilated according to King system. Each cow has a good, airy, 

 light and comfortable stall. We try to keep cow clean, barn clean 

 and hands clean; milk into Gurler buckets, take direct to cream 

 house, which is detached from the barn, separate it and bring it 

 down to 40 degrees. 



Feed Silage — Our cows are fed from the farm, excepting bran. 

 We give them, from October 15 to June 15, 40 pounds green corn 

 ensilage, corn and cob meal, all the shredded fodder they will eat, 

 and bran, and keep up the grain while cows are on the grass, but 

 not in so great an amount. 



All the heifer calves which have good mothers are kept for 

 future cows. All the bulls from thoroughbred high-class cows are 

 sold for breeding purposes. The skim milk is fed to these young- 

 sters until they are six months old. The balance is fed to hogs. 

 The best way, I believe, is to give to the sow until pigs get large 

 enough to drink, after which give to pigs and add cornmeal, making 

 a mush. In this way, we think, with very little corn, we are en- 

 abled to bring the pigs to 150 to 160, when they can be turned off. 



Then, again, there is the manure of the herd. We get about 

 one spreader load of manure per day from our cow barn. Then 

 the horse barn, calf and pig pens furnish almost, if not quite, an- 

 other load a day, or 700 loads per year, valued at $1.00 per load, 

 which I think very reasonable, would make $700.00 per year. 



Expenses — Now, as to the expense of running such a place. 

 We pay hands about $100.00 per month, except during siloing and 

 harvesting, both of which is short. We buy bran, but sell wheat, 

 the only grain we sell from the farm. We have the natural increase 

 of 40 to 50 calves per year, as well as four to six colts and young 

 horses and mules. We have the sale of 140 to 160 head of hogs 

 each year, and all the time we are enriching our farms. 



So, taking everything into consideration, I think the one who 

 would not be satisfied with this kind of showing would be hard to 

 please. 



Start right — Now, a word of advice to those thinking of enter- 

 ing this field would be, begin on rather a small scale, try only milk 

 cows, and when you get one that is not a milk cow, sell her, no mat- 

 ter how pretty, how well bred, nor what she ought to do, the fact 

 is more money is lost in keeping the ones which are boarders than 

 any other way in the dairy business. 



