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Now labor is much higher than it was then, and I am putting the 

 cost up to $16.00 for labor. Here we have $51.00. We have $1.00 

 on the right side — ^just $1.00. 



Now, I think you might as well work for $25.00 per month, 

 or for the going wages, which would be $28.00 per month now, as 

 to keep that kind of cows. 



Now we will take the four hundred pound cow. We have 400 

 pounds butter at 22 cents, or $88.00. We have 8,000 pounds of 

 skimmed milk at 20 cents, or $16.00; making a total of $104.00. 

 The cost of feed in this case was $45.00 and the labor $16.00 ; mak- 

 ing a total of $61.00. 



We have $43.00 profit, or $42.00 more than we got out of the 

 other cow. Now that $43.00 will pay ten per cent interest on 

 $400.00; almost twice what we can get for our money any other 

 place. Some of you will raise the question that there is more risk. 

 Your loss would be greater if anything happens to that $400.00 

 cow than that $40.00 cow. Now we go on the other side of that. 

 We have the heifer calves from that cow. We may have three or 

 four that may be her equal, and this certainly more than pays for 

 the risk. 



I am now through with the items I had noted here, and it is 

 about time for me to close, anyhow. 



Q. I want to ask as to breeding a bull to his own get. 



A. I would not do that. Though I have had no occasion for 

 that, because I have had a herd of a size to support two or three 

 males. I do not like to discuss that question. That is a field in 

 itself. I am not well enough informed upon it to go into it. 



Here is one point I want to tell you. I have rented my farm 

 now to two men that have been superintendents on the farm, one 

 for three years and the other five years, and one has a son eighteen 

 years old, just out of the township high school, and we are applying 

 this test now. Do you know that young man is so interested he is 

 watching all this work. He is just as interested as he can be. He 

 is going into the subject in earnest, and is to be one of two men, 

 who with six milking machines, will milk the sixty-four cows which 

 we are keeping. I know those men will follow my lead and are 

 going to weed out those cows that are not doing what they ought, 

 and hold the standard up where there will be some money in it for 

 them and for me. 



Q. Does it do to mix the dairy breeds? 



A. Do not do it. I did that once and I had to pay for It. T 

 bred a Holstein bull to grade Jerseys and grade Guernseys and 



