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paid him over $ioo apiece for them. I have them in my barn 

 to-day. I think by this time they have paid for themselves. They 

 stand pretty nearly between the good and the choice class of 

 Prof. Cooley. I am milking 33 cows out of a herd of 41 ; the 

 income for last month of the 33 cows that is left will be over 

 $500. How have I been able to pay $100 for cows and make any 

 money out of them? I have been able to do it because I felt 

 that the yield of those cows would bring me sufficient income 

 to justify that expenditure; and second their off-spring could be 

 raised and sold for enough more to make up the difference. I 

 think on th^e first proposition I worked the proper ground, On 

 the second I reckoned without knowing just what I was doing. 

 We have no pasture and have got to give up the raising of stock 

 or keeping thorough-bred stock, unless we can find a market 

 for young stock, and I want to see in my trip here if I cannot 

 find in Vermont a market for young stock from cows which 

 will come into the class which Prof. Cooley has just talked of. 

 Given this, how long will it take a Vermont farmer, from his 

 herd to-day to raise good and choice cows ; how much will it 

 cost him to go into Massachusetts and buy heifers out of good 

 cows, by good sires, and in twO' or three years have herds which 



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ill stand far ahead of the average herd in this state? 



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I heard a herdsman in Vermont a year ago say he thought 

 I was foolish to pay such prices. He suggested that I could 

 go into the finest dairy county of Vermont and buy nice cows 

 for $50. 



I went to one of the best breeders and he told me I had 

 better give up my trip and go to Brighton market and get them. 

 I went there and the proprietor said : "It is only occasionally 

 that I get that type of cow." H,e said the demand on the 

 Brighton market has been 'so great that that class of cows has 

 been taken up. 



Prof. Hills : — I was asked to-day what to do with a big 

 back pasture and I suggested in my judgment the best thing 

 was to turn it into a cow kindergarten. The farmers in this 

 state who have good pastures, in my judgment, cannot make 

 them serve them better than for the purpose of building up young 

 cows of the good and choice type that sell in Massachusetts as 

 two and three-year-olds. It has been my privilege several times 

 to talk to conventions in Massachusetts — my native state. The 

 first time I went down there I used to urge them to breed their 

 cattle over and over again. They told me they lacked opportunity 

 and lacked pasture. The trade is all for the city. We have not 

 got the time nor the money to give that must go to the exten- 

 sion of our herds. Seems to me such counties as Orange and 



