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keep these few lines in frout of liini, coniniit to memory and report 

 to bis neighbor, they will sonnd like this and he will try again. 



"If yon strike a thorn or rose, 



Keep a goin'! 

 If it hails or if it snows, 



Keep a goin' ! 

 'Tain't no nse to sit and whine 

 When the fish ain't on you line, 

 Bait your book and keep on trying, 



Keep a goin' !" 



I have seen horses leave No. 1 Western clipped oats to eat second 

 crop alfalfa. The animal can tell us which is best. I have seen 

 dairy cows leave No. 1 Buffalo Gluten to partake of green alfalfa. 

 In fact, it is feed for the soil, for the animal, and for the owner's 

 bank account. 



In conclusion, I would encourage any man who owns ground 

 that will grow common red clover to begin with alfalfa at once, 

 and after he has harvested his first crops and burned the following 

 winter's fire wood, it will not take an uncultured farmer like myself 

 to explain the advantage derived therefrom. 



COST OF MILK PKODUCTION 



By A. B. HUEY, Lenape, Pa. 



Being asked to say something to you on Cost of Milk Production, 

 I will first quote from the Thirtieth Annual Report of the New 

 Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, 

 New Jersey, for the year 1909. Their cost for maintenance would 

 be 'practically the same as ours, their cost of milk in cans at the 

 farm is .0416 cents per quart. This is for actual cost of feed con- 

 sumed and labor expended. It does not include anything for super- 

 vision, investment in the farm itself, dairy buildings, neither ap- 

 paratus, milk utensils, incidental ex]>enses, or insurance, and with 

 cows averaging 8,5()1 ]»ounds of milk per year. I will consider 

 this cost of milk ]>roduction as that of the average farmer who 

 raises the greater part of his own feed, and markets it through the 

 cow. What can he do to cheapen the cost? In many instances 

 where he has made a competency, he had done it either through 

 more than ordinary judgment, or the strictest economy and hard 

 work, often drudgery. 



This reminds me of an instance Avhere a farmer had bought a few 

 cords of wood from a neighbor. When the farmer came to settle 

 he mentioned the fact that in coming out with the last load two 

 or three sticks had fallen off, and as he had on a heavy load he did 

 not get off' to recover them. He would therefore just take five cents 

 off the bill. This man did not make that five cents he only save^ 



