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I was proud wlieu I heard Secretary Hamilton's speecli, and I felt 

 prouder than ever I felt before because 1 was a farmer. I felt that 

 way when they asked Brother Seeds whether he was a farmer or 

 a gentleman when he came here to tell about those great springs 

 and those great roots of alfalfa and I am glad I belong to this or- 

 ganization. 



MR. BLYHOLDER: The next question is: 



"What degree of success have you had with fly repellant in the 

 dairy?" 



MR. McDonald : I win say I never had any particular success. 

 During the season of flies, when we are bothered the most, Ave 

 go through the dairy twice a day wath kerosene and that will relieve 

 them some for the present. I have never had anything that is any 

 better remedy. 



A Member: I am not afraid to say that I used it with great suc- 

 cess. Our cows were tied in the barn and we sprayed them at milk- 

 ing time and when they came in. It would take but a small sprayer, 

 and it only takes but a minute for each one. 



MR. BOND: We pasture our cattle along the foot of the 

 mountain and it is almost impossible for them to live up along there 

 on account of the flies, and we use this preparation on the market. 

 We spray our cows every morning with it and turn them off and 

 they are just as contented as they can be until four o'clock in the 

 afternoon. It is a success. I would not be without it if it cost 

 flO a gallon. A gallon will spray ten cows for two months every 

 day. There are exceptions. We have a stream of water running 

 through our pasture. If the cows stand in there sometimes it 

 will lose its effect sooner, but under ordinary circumstances it will 

 last during the day. We do not take our horses out of the stable 

 without spraying them around the neck and ears, and w^e have 

 no trouble with it. It costs seventy-five cents a gallon or |1.50 

 a gallon and the sprayer with it. It is a success, but it won't last 

 two or three days. Put it on every morning and thoroughly. 



MR. THOMPSON: If you have a pair of scales in your barn and 

 some "shoo-fly" you will soon discover the value of "shoo-fly." 



DR. CONARD: It is my mission to travel a good little bit through 

 some parts of New Jersey, and there it seems to me the flies are 

 worse than anywhere I know of, and the raoscpiitoes too. T do not 

 know why it is so without it is that in the hot weather the drain- 

 age is imperfect, and every barn has more or less of a pool around 

 it, where the mosquitoes and flies originate. They almost to a man 

 use the fly repellant and they think they cannot do without it. It 

 is a success and pays for itself many times over, --J 



