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figured the product of butter fat at the price we are paying the 

 patrons of the college creamery. 



Prof. Smith: Where is the wedge shape. Professor? 



Prof. Curtiss: She has not it there in that form. There 

 are varying degrees of wedge shape. This cow during the 

 period of which I give you her record produced butter at a cost 

 of five cents a pound for feeding. The feed consumed by this 

 cow cost five cents a pound for butter produced in that period 

 on a record of 445 lbs. 



Mr. Anderson : Does that include the calf and interest on 

 money invested ? 



Prof. Curtiss : We do not credit the value of manure, skim 

 milk neither do we charge up labor, but the skim milk and 

 manure would more than offset these other items, so you may 

 say those things are taken into consideration. 



Mr. Henderson : I would like to ask Professor Curtiss 

 if he raised that unprofitable cow or bought her? 



Prof. Curtiss: She was raised for beef on the college farm. 



]\Ir. Henderson : I would like the professor to tell us as 

 near as he can how to eliminate those unprofitable cows. The 

 farmers of the state want to know. It is easy to say that we 

 must get rid of them, but we want information as to how to 

 get rid of them, because if we get rid of them this year in two 

 or three years we will have some more. 



Prof. Curtiss : I will answer that in a moment. This is 

 a cow that made the high record of 513 lbs., that produced butter 

 every year at a cost of 4.7c per pound for feed consumed. Of 

 course these prices are not comparative in all cases because the 

 tests were conducted at different periods at different prices 

 of feed and different prices of product, so those prices are not 

 directly comparable. 



With reference to ^Ir. Henderson's question, I will say that 

 there is no recipe or formula by which we may breed all good 



