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The faults and failings of the worthless cow have cancelled or 

 concealed the profits of the good cow, just as human idlers are a 

 tax upon their fellows. The good cow has to do the work for both. 

 Not knowing the production of either, the dairyman has over-esti- 

 mated the poor and under-estimated the good. One cow of the good 

 kind, producing 300 pounds of butter fat per year, is actually worth 

 to the dairyman more than forty cows of the other kind. When 

 the dairyman knows the good cows in his herd — knows how good 

 they are — he will be just as anxious to tie to them as they are 

 willing and faithful to serve him. 



When will the dairyman start the rebellion (and the test), 

 throw off his fetters, and fill his barn with the kind of cows that 

 are glad to earn him big money and make possible a better way 

 of living for his whole family? 



A GOOD PRICE FOR GOOD MILK, AND HOW WE PRO- 

 DUCE IT. 



(By J. A. Miles, Gray's Summit, Mo. ) 



Spring Hill Dairy Farm is situated 42 miles west of St. Louis, 

 on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and consists of 280 acres. The 

 main spring on the farm is at the dairy barn, and furnishes about 

 30,000 gallons of fine water per day, that stands at a temperature 

 of 56 degrees. 



My mother moved on the farm with her parents from Vir- 

 ginia in 1832, and the family has lived here continuously since. 

 I was born here in 1850. The system of farming, if I may call 

 it such, consisted in raising grain crops, and hauling them off the 

 farm. The principle crop recently has been wheat. Where we 

 formerly raised 20 or 25 bushels per acre, the yield came down 

 to 10 or 12 bushels. 



About five years ago I saw that there would have to be a 

 reformation or a separation, so about three years ago I bought 

 nine cows, and milked them in an open lot. I made butter and 

 hauled it six miles, and sold it for 18 cents — one-half in trade and 

 the balance in cash. The next season I sold my product as a 32 

 per cent, cream, and received 60 cents per gallon for it from the 

 St. Louis Dairy Co. I then built my dairy barn and increased my 

 herd to 50 cows of mixed breeds, Jerseys predominating. My herd 

 bull is a royally bred Jersey, a grandson of Old Pedro, and came 

 from J. Q. Emery & Son, Albion, Wis. I have about twenty head 



