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would bring it back to our own country, and we would put on a 

 few Yankee quirks and we woukl be up on the ladck'r as now 

 we are beginning- down where they left off a hundred years ago. 

 I have brought a model of a cow stall and anyone can ex- 

 amine who wishes. It is a very simple thing and it will save you 

 a great deal of work. There is no patent on it. It is something 

 we have in our barn and I hope everybody who looks at it will 

 put it in their barn ; it will cost you nothing to do so. 



A Member: — When the calf is with the cow, is il able to 

 take care of all the milk? 



Mrs. Howie : — Very seldom, I am obliged to milk the co 



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even when the calf is with her ; but the calf gets enough to 

 regulate the digestive organs. We try to get it to take as much 

 of the first milk as possible. 



A Member: — How many times do you milk her? 



Mrs. Howie : — That depends upon the amount of milk she 

 gives. We never milk her perfectly dry until after the third or 

 fourth day. If we think the calf is getting too much — and you 

 see you have to be pretty familiar with cow knowledge, — we 

 may milk the cow before and let the calf take the milk as it comes 

 in later. 



A Member : — How many pounds of milk do your cows 



average ? 



Mrs. Howie : — Now, I couldn't tell you exactly at the pres- 

 ent time, because I have about twenty heifers among them, and 

 they vary. We have one little heifer with her first calf and 

 she gives from i6 to i8 pounds of five per cent milk a day. 

 Those heifers are like a great many men and women. They 

 don't crop out every day in the year, but when you do get one, 

 you feel you have been well rewarded for a lot of time and work 

 spent with the rest of the herd. We have over 60 head. We 

 keep a record of every cow in the herd. The milk is weighed 

 night and morning, and we gage strictly by the milk pail and 

 the Babcock test. I have a few cows that I am very proud of ; 

 some that will give me 10,000 pounds of milk a year and it 

 isn't water either. 



A Member: — (Referring to the model stall). How near 

 to the floor do you bring the partitions in these stalls? 



Mrs. Howie : — About a foot above the floor so that when 

 the cow wants to lie down she may stretch her legs. 



A Member: — Why is the cow not milked perfectlv clean at 

 first? 



