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April, one cow from the 9th and two more from tha 16th gave 51 

 gauges of cream, part of the time at 20 cents and part of the 



time at 15 cents per gauge $9.50 



May, three cows part of the time and four cows part of the time.. 19 50 



June, four cows, 145^ gauges at 12 cents 17.47 



July, " " no " " 12 " - 13.19 



August,^' " lOSf " "12 " 13.05 



Sept., " " 108.1 " " \b " IG 22 



Oct., " " " " 16 to 18 cents 16.00 



:Nov., " " 13days" " 18 cents 10.00 



Total at an average of 14^ cents per gauge $114.93 



Mr. Hollenbeck : I got five gauges per day at 18 cents per gauge from the 

 creamery, when by making my own butter I only got 65 cents per day. 



Mr. Shipman: I tested the matter for a week and thought I could do bet- 

 ter than selling to the creamery. 



J:;^Mr. Stahl: For one season I collected the cream for a creamery from 300 

 patrons. Two-thirds of the patrons were pleased and thought the system 

 profitable. There were 7(10 calves raised by the patrons on the skim milk 

 left after sending the cream. 



Dr. M. Miles: There is a great difference in breeds in the quality of milk 

 and size of cream globules. Even individual cows vary greatly in the qual- 

 ity of milk, and the treatment that will produce the best results from one 

 •cow's milk may not produce the best from another. You need to keep con- 

 stant watch, constantly testing and selecting. 



Mr. Bradley: As I have dealt some three years in cows and milk, I have 

 tested milk somewhat. I don't know the breed of my cows unless they are 

 the same as the dung hill fowl. Last spring I tried selling to a creamery. On 

 the last five days of April I set 711 pounds of milk, which gave twenty-one 

 and five-eighths gauges at fourteen cents=43 cents per hundred pounds of 

 milk, which was a poor return compared with cheese factory profits. My 

 milk only gave one gauge to thirty-three pounds of milk. I set 150 pounds 

 of milk in pans and got six and three-quarters pounds of butter which, at 16 

 cents per pound, for butter, would be 70 cents per cwt. for milk. I then 

 set 154 pounds of milk in cans and got four and a half gauges of cream, 

 which made six and a quarter pounds of butter. I found no particular dif- 

 ference between cans and pans. I patronized a creamery twenty-one days 

 in April and May, and after that sent my milk to a cheese factory and got 

 eighty cents per cwt. in May and June, and $1.00 per cwt. in October. I 

 consider that 25 per cent better than making butter or selling to a creamery. 



THRESHING CORN". 



Dr. Beal : I would like to ask Prof. Johnson about threshing corn. 



Prof. Johnson: To thresh corn it is necessary to be very careful to thor- 

 oughly cure the corn in the field to prevent heating. 



Mr. Hilton: I saw the process. The cylinder of the thresher was raised 

 and half the teeth removed from the concave and cylinder. A friend said 

 that it was worth threshing if only for the effect on the fodder, as it made 

 better bedding, better for feeding, and better, (because more easily handled) 

 manure. The machine threshed 135 bushels in half a day. 



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