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deep setting and it was changed to a milk creamery. The cream- 

 ery today is doing good business. 



Mr. Eddy: — I know another in South Newbury. 



A Member: — I have had ten patrons who laid the separator 

 one side and went back to whole milk. 



The President: — We have with us today a professor from 

 Amherst college, and I am very glad to introduce to you Prof. 

 F. S. Cooley of Amherst, Mass. 



Prof. Cooley: — Gentlemen of the Vermont Dair3'mcn's as- 

 sociation and ladies: — I assure you it is an honor to be invited 

 to address you at this time which I doubly appreciate, but it 

 seems a pity to interrupt a discussion of this kind for what I 

 may have to say. I realize that these men who have been speak- 

 ing come from your own locality while I am a stranger whose 

 only connection with agriculture is that I am a professor in an 

 agricultural college, although I have owned a few cows, re- 

 tailed milk and separated some cream but it was only a side issue. 

 My work in the college has been in connection with animal hus- 

 bandry instruction, and especially with cattle and cows which 

 are most interesting objects to me and I have selected for my sub- 

 ject 



rut HUNDRED DOLLAR COW, 



This subject naturally suggests the question, what is a hun- 

 dred dollar cow? Are there cows for which farmers can afford 

 to pay $ioo for dairy purposes? Is the hundred dollar cow a 

 far off ideal or a living reality? 



In reply let me call attention to certain facts from which 

 von may make your own deductions : The average cow for the 

 entire country, according to figures obtained by the late Henry E. 

 Alvord, produces about 125 pounds of butter annually. My can- 

 vass of Mass. creameries leads to the conclusion by the fore- 

 mentioned authority that ^Massachusetts cows are somewhat bet- 

 ter than the average for the United States, and that the average 

 annual butter product is about 175 pounds per cow. Average 

 milk would require about 1,750 quarts or a little more than 

 3.500 pounds to produce 175 pounds of butter. The value of 

 the product would be about as follows: 



175 pounds butter at 25c $43 75 



1,500 quarts of skim milk at >4c 7 50 



$51 25 

 Or 1,750 quarts milk at 3c $52 50 



