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bor for money. My cows are tied, each cow by herself. I 

 would not use a stanchion for two reasons; one is the discom- 

 fort of the cow, and the other is, when cows are lying - down, 

 other cows step on their udders. My cows wear a leather hal- 

 ter fastened with a snap and ring. In front of them is a horse 

 rack and it slants toward the cow. It is about thirty-eight 

 inches from the floor. It is eight inches wide at the bottom 

 and at the top it is two and one-half feet wide Now the use 

 of the rack is to force the cow back when she stands. I nail 

 a strip of two by three across the stall just forward of her 

 hind toes. I fill the place with bedding, so when the cow lies 

 down she comes up on to the dry bedding, when she gets up 

 the rack forces her back. I have cows with white flanks, just 

 as white in winter as they would be if turned out to pasture, 

 and I can make the cleanest, purest milk I ever saw. My 

 wife don't complain that the hired man has peppered the milk 

 with manure before it came to the house. 



A Member- — They can't lay on the whole business? 



Mr. Hoard. You don't understand me. The rack stands 

 thirty-six inches from the floor. The cow comes right under 

 it, she eats out of the rack. I can't explain it to you so you 

 can see it. Write me when I get home and ask me to send 

 you a good engraving of it and I will do so. 



Mr. Sm^th. Gov. Hoard has been an old friend of mine and 

 an old correspondent. I have received something like fifty- 

 two letters a year from him for the last fifteen years in the shape 

 of Hoard's Dairyman, the instruction which I have received 

 from these letters has enabled me to achieve some of the 

 success that I have gained in the years that have passed. It 

 is by studying along these lines, following out the examples 

 which have been laid down for me in these fifty-two letters, 

 that has enabled me to branch out in the lines that he has 

 suggested. It is for this reason that I own today the grandson 

 of the cow he has spoken of here. I would like for the benefit 

 of this audience a description of the special purpose dairy an- 

 imal. 



Gov. Hoard. I will speak just a few minutes along the 

 line of such a cow, tomorrow, if I may be permitted. 



President Pierce. Unless it interferes with the speakers 

 tomorrow morning, we will consider it so ordered. We will 

 now take a recess until tomorrow morning. The members 

 will remain for the election of officers. 



