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lers' grains and 100 pounds of gluten feed. This mixture fed in the 

 proportion mentioned above gives us excellent results. Bulletin 114 of 

 the Pennsylvania Station takes up this short method and every 

 farmer should have it. 



The question of out-door treatment came up yesterday, but I am 

 not fully prepared to state results. The last three winters we have 

 carried on an experiment with dairy cows, the same as Prof. Tom- 

 have describes with beef cattle. We do not feel that we have carried 

 it far enough to give the results as final; we expect to carry it on 

 for two years more, at least, and perhaps more. We find that these 

 cows kept out of doors consume more feed, particularly more rough- 

 age, have better appetites, consume more water (and we don't warm 

 the water) than the cows kept indoors. We find the outside treat- 

 ment requires a little more bedding. We find that the milk yield 

 of the cows kept outside does not keep up quite so well as that of 

 the cows kept inside. The decrease in milk yield for the winter 

 amounts to a little over a pound of milk for each cow of the outside 

 group more than the inside group. At the Maryland Experiment 

 Station they are conducting a similar experiment and they are 

 heartily in favor of it. In Maryland they are working it out on the 

 tuberculosis question, and there is no doubt that the outdoor cows 

 are very much benefited by their treatment. 



ADDRESS OF MR. BURNETT 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am glad to be here, and as a representa- 

 tive of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, I am glad to have an opportunity 

 to speak to you. We are doing quite a good work along the line 

 of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; it is not a philanthropic work, but 

 one entirely selfish. We are endeavoring to get the farmer to pro- 

 duce more stuff to ship over our line. All this year I have been en- 

 deavoring to establish storage houses along our line where the farmer 

 can bring his apples and potatoes, etc., and have a man in charge 

 who can market them better than the farmer himself can. I believe 

 this would put an end to the high cost of living. I think that this 

 high cost is justifiable to a certain extent. There has been a bill up 

 in the New York Legislature to establish a large market house in 

 New York City to which the farmer can bring his produce; it would 

 have to be done on a tremendous scale, and I do not see how it 

 would benefit the farmer except that it would leave no question as 

 to the payment, but I think if we could establish these store houses 

 along the line, it would be a success. We have been working along 

 that line in New York for the past year, and working with some suc- 

 cess. I think the Grange and some of the other organizations should 

 take up this question. The first thing is to raise more stuff; the sec- 

 ond is to market it. The State College and Experiment Station and 

 the Farmers' Institutes are doing all they can to help the first, and 

 the other end of it, I think should also be taken up. 



