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O. Use any condition powders to make the cows give more 

 milk? A. We bought some condition powders and fed our 

 cows some and I do not know as it did our cows any harm, 

 don't know as it did them any good but we did not buy any more 

 this year. 



Q. About how much do your cows average in a year? A. 

 That is a hard matter for us to telk In the summer time we 

 have summer boarders. There are at least four months when 

 there are from 35 to 40 boarders, say 50 in the family, and we use 

 a great deal of milk and cream. During that time it is pretty 

 hard to keep track of the amount of a cow's milk, but we have 

 al various times when our cows were not all giving milk and 

 most of them heifers, and all would average something a little 

 less than a pound and a quarter a day ; the cows would be nearly 

 dry and there would be 10 or 15 and sometimes 20 two-year-old 

 heifers in the crowd. That would be when we had only our own 

 family, which is quite large. 



O. Have you always kept Jersey cows? A. Ever since I 

 can recollect. Never kept anything else. We have had some 

 grades, but very few. 



O. Do you give the young heifers any grain? 



A. We do not. Our young heifers are given one feed of 

 ensilage a day, and one feed of hay a day. 



O. Are your cows thoroughbred? A. Our cows are not 

 registered. We had them in the herd book a good many years 

 and then got out of it. Our bull is a registered bull, but few 

 of the cows are registered, none of them in the book at present. 



O. Do you like the Jersey to raise stock from? A. We 

 like the Jerseys for our business to raise dairy cows ; if we raised 

 them for beef we would not like the Jerseys. 



Q. What do you do with your old Jersey cows ? A. Don't 

 intend to have many old Jersey cows. Our cows are sold when 

 they are thriving and at good age. 



O. How do the prices run for your cows? A. From $50 

 to $65 our cows would average. 



O. Do you siell them to drovers or private customers? 

 A. Very few drovers. We have sold to private customers 

 mostly. 



0. Did the man who bought them make any money out 

 of them ? A. T don't know. The same men come back year 

 after year and buy them, T do not know whether they make any 

 money or not, they come back year after year and it would 

 seem to indicate they were satisfactory. 



Q. They wont stop to look at a Jersey cow my way. 

 A. They come and look at ours and buy them too, but most of 

 our customers are private customers. 



