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of this calibre any more than from the veriest scrub without feed. 

 Her advantage is most apparent when under high pressure. 

 PJundred dollar cows are not adapted to working on half time 

 or half feed; and it takes a hundred dollar man to do the 

 situation justice. Any fool can feed cows at low pressure; but 

 it takes an artist to feed the limit. Very few people can hold a 

 great cow to the limit and keep her there, one who does it proves 

 his claim to the title of master. 



Mr. Chapin: — Is not the rate per cent, of interest higher 

 than common, 6 per cent. 



A.: — I think a cow is just as good as a Government bond. 



A Member: — Government bonds pay but 2^ per cent, and 

 savings banks 3. 



I'rof. Cooley:— Does anybody think I have got the per cent. 

 too low, ought it to be seven or eight? My point is to make 

 tliose things ample to cover everything. If a cow pays six per 

 cent., I suppose that is all right. 



A Member : — Seems to me you ought to start out with a 

 herd of heifers. 



J^rof. Cooley : — Can't do that in Massachusetts, we sell herds 

 as they run. 



A Member : — Why does it cost $75 to feed a choice cow and 

 $25 I0 feed a poor one? 



Prof. Cooley :■ — -It does not. In my figuring I was in every 

 instance giving the poor cow the advantage. It does not cost 

 $40 more to feed a choice cow than it does the poor cow, I give 

 the poor cow the benefit of the doubt. 



A Member : — Do I understand you to say you have got to 

 sell cows at the end of four years for the price you paid for 

 them to come out even? 



Prof. Cooley : — No, give them away at the end of four years 

 and you would come out even. 



A Member: — Do you think $65 will feed the 30,000 pound 

 of milk cow and make her produce the amount of milk the dif- 

 ference between the poor cow and the good one? 



Prof. Cooley : — I certainly do. 



George Aitkin : — May I say a few words along this line ? I 

 sm very much pleased to have Prof. Cooley make his explana- 

 tion so plain ; that is, the difference between the good and poor 

 cow. It is a fact that Vermont dairymen keep too many poor 

 cows. The Professor did not go half far enough, in my estima- 

 tion in regard to the good cow. 



The value of a Pieterje calf is a great deal more than calves 

 usually bring. For the past twenty years we have kept a 

 strict account with all our cows, we weigh the milk, test the 

 milk four times a year, and this last month I was making up the 



