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Received from the sale of butter, |1U3 OU 



Received from the sale of cream, cottage cheese, skim milk 



and buttermilk 81) 02 



Received from the sale of veal, 24 U'J 



or a total of 1216 11 



When we see that the home consumption is equal to the cost 

 of the keeping of these two cows, we consider this a very creditable 

 showing and feel that we are amply repaid for the labor expended. 



We are sometimes asked if it is not a considerable task to market 

 this small product every week. In answer we say, "No," for while 

 we are marketing the products of the dairy we try to have other 

 things to market at the same time, all of which we retail to our 

 customers. We very rarely go to market with dairy products 

 alone. 



GROWING BEEF. 



BT S. E. Bradpute, Xenia, Ohio. 



Gentlemen of the State of Pennsylvania: Perhaps some of you 

 may have heard me discuss this subject somewhat along the same 

 lines before the Livestock Association at Pittsburg, when the meet- 

 ing was held in that city. I shall perhaps treat the subject a little 

 difterentl}', as we are constantly ti*ying to improve along these lines. 



In the splendid address to which we listened this afternoon, we 

 learned that the American farmer is not succeeding in getting the 

 yield per acre of grain that the farmers of other countries are doing. 

 I think we are all satisfied that this is due to the fact that the 

 American farmer has been doing entirely too much skimming in 

 his process of farming. He has skimmed lightly over the soil, draw- 

 ing out its fertility and then gone farther west and repeated the 

 process, and then going west and going west. That is not only true 

 of the grain growing districts of America; it is also true of the beef 

 and cattle industries of America. Well do I remember of often 

 hearing my grandfather — you see my family have been interested 

 in the growing of beef in the same territory for nearly a hundred 

 years — often have I heard my grandfather talk of feeding his steers 

 and driving them over the mountains to Philadelphia and Baltimore. 

 Of course, that part of the business has long since gone. The steers 

 that was grown then was, of necessity a strong, vigorous, bony fel- 

 low, that could stand the strain of traveling for days without losing 

 too much flesh, rather than the one we want to-day of less bone and 

 more meat. The larger part of the cattle men have drifted west, 

 because it was easier to grow cattle, the same as it was to grow 

 wheat. As the grass disappeared in one place he drifted further 

 west, and still further west, until to-day the cattle grower has pi-ar- 

 tically come to a stand still in that direction, It has, in my judg- 



