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to'drink instead of putting - the second milking - into the can 

 as some do when sending their milk to the creamery. In warm 

 weather milk frequently arrives at the creamery turned and 

 so'sour that it is not accepted and has to be carried home for 

 feeding. In this there is quite a loss. I had some come 

 back but once in the four months that I patronized the cream- 

 ery, but that was during the last four months of the year when 

 the weather was cool. I once heard the manager of Jersey 

 Hill creamery say, in speaking of the way some patrons kept 

 their cans on the outside, that he had to wear a glove or keep 

 some waste in his hand there was so much filth on the bottom. 

 If a creamery with the reputation of Jersey Hill has such pat- 

 rons what might be expected of the common run. 



I know but little of what my brother dairymen are doing 

 but would like to ask every one who has sent his cream or milk 

 to the creamery the past year and has averaged three hundred 

 pounds to the cow to rise. That the audience may have a bet- 

 ter idea how many have averaged 275 pounds per cow at the 

 creamery. 



From an average of thirty-four cows in my dairy the past 

 year, allowing one cow for the milk and cream used in the 

 family, eleven of them being two year old heifers, I have aver- 

 aged 31324 pounds of butter at an average price of twenty-one 

 cents a pound net. Had it all been sold and I had bought the 

 butter for the family use as the creamery patrons have to do it 

 would have brought in $65.88 per cow. Every heifer was count- 

 ed a cow as long as she gave milk and after if she was coming 

 in again. If I thought I could do as well I might be induced to 

 patronize the creamery, but there is one thing certain if I did 

 I should lose the interest in dairying that I now have. 



DISCUSSION. 



President Pierce. Is your dairy chiefly winter or summer? 



Mrs. Nelson. Mostly summer; I make about one-third as 

 much in the winter as I do in the summer. 



President Pierce. You consider that you can produce but- 

 ter cheaper in the summer than you can in the winter? 



Mrs. Nelson. Yes, because I do not feed much grain in the 

 summer. 



President Pierce. Do you feed much grain at any time? 



Mrs. Nelson. My grain bill for the past year was just $15 

 to the cow. 



A Member. I would like to ask the lady if she has ever 

 tried feeding clear gluten? 



Mrs. Nelson. I never have. 



Question — What objection have you to the use of gluten? 



