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so far as your cows are concerned, the residuum of that cider manu- 

 factured apple pomace. I am licit' reminded of a story of a judge in 

 one of the New York courts who was trying a negro woman for mis- 

 treating her son. lie had her on the stand, and was going over the 

 harrowing details, how she lambasted the youngster, and the judge 

 said, "Stop, madam, why did you treat this boy in such outrageous 

 fashion; 1 am shocked." She looked at him with fine scorn, and 

 said, "Look here, judge, were you ever the father of a worthless 

 mulatto boy." The judge naturally pretty nearly fell off the bench, 

 but he collected himself and said that whatever his sins might have 

 been that hadn't been one. "Well, then," she said, "if you wasn't, 

 you don't know nothing about the case." Now, there is many a 

 man when I first talked bout this matter of using the apple pomace, 

 who wouldn't take it. If you havent' tried it you don't know any- 

 thing about the case. Apple pomace silage is good and does not 

 hurt the milk or butter. 



Passing to the other side of this matter, in the matter of the 

 concentrates, the Secretary of Agriculture last night told you some- 

 thing of what the State was endeavoring to do in the line of pro- 

 tecting the dairyman in the purchase of concentrated feeds for their 

 cattle. He stated they have started some prosecutions along these 

 lines. There is to be a conference next spring in New York City, 

 1 presume among the stations of the northeastern part of this 

 country, as to what may be done in this matter of the feed shortage 

 in the protein contents of certain of the concentrates that are com- 

 monly sold through here. Our state laws in many of our states are 

 nothing in this matter. But now while legislation may be and is 

 of decided advantage ways in connection with this matter of stock 

 feeding, it will not and cannot take the place of intelligent judgment 

 of the individual. Legislation will throw about certain barriers, but 

 it won't do your thinking for you. The station work and station pub- 

 lications are not to lessen but to increase your labors. As I fre- 

 quently have said, investigation in agriculture is not a staff for 

 farmers to lean upon, but a rod to stir them with. It seems to me it 

 is worth while for ten minutes to discuss this matter of the relation- 

 ship of these concentrates to specific uses or that their part in stock 

 feeding. On every bag of concentrate sold in the State of Pennsyl- 

 nia, barring a few specific brands, there must be printed a statement 

 as to its composition in terms of protein and in terms of fat. Now, 

 to the man who buys that bag in this fashion, the printing thereon 

 will not amount to a row of beans. The man who buys with his eyes 

 open, and looks at it, and cogitates about it, and fixes in his mind the 

 man of greatest observation, who studies the relationship between 

 that statement and the price and the cow, will make far more and 

 better purchases than he who simply buys upon the statement of the 

 agent. I read two or three years ago in the "Rural New Yorker" a 

 most enlightening article, written by my friend Masters of Con- 

 necticut. It was entitled, "The Confessions of a Feed Dealer." He 

 told me nothing new, but I imagine it was new to a good many 

 people.- He said when he went into this feed business it was a side 

 issue to another line of work he was in. He was actuated largely by 

 altruistic motives. He thought he could do good to his fellow-man 

 and associates and friends by suggesting that this or that feed was 

 the better. He thought he could help his people along that way. 



