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Mr. Anderson : What percentage do that ? 



Mr. Gillette: A very small per cent. As T stated before, 

 if more of them did do it and became acquainted with their own 

 conditions, became acquainted with the cows that were actually 

 robbing them eveiy day, the dairy farmer of \Visconsin, as 

 well as other states in the Union, would be in better condition 

 in a very short time. 



Mr. Anderson : Did I understand you to say that if we 

 bought cotton seed meal we received in that $12.30 manure 

 fertilizer per ton? 



Mr. Gillette: Yes and no. My comparison would not 

 work out practically, but as compared with the price of com- 

 ercial fertilizer there is. 



Mr. Anderson : Compare it with our farm yard fertilizer. 

 In Iowa we do not buy commercial fertilizer. 



Mr. Gillette : Yours is not as old a state, perhaps, as 

 some others and those elements by continual cropping are bound 

 to be worn out in the soil in time. 



Mr. Anderson : Have you found out by actual experience 

 that by buying oil meal you get $12.30 value out of it? 



Mr. Gillette : Of course I would hate tO' buy a ton of 

 wheat bran for manuring purposes solely and pay $12.30 a ton 

 for it. 



Mr. Anderson : If you buy it for feeding purposes and in 

 addition to the 250 lbs., of protein you get in the ton, do you get 

 $12.30 worth of manure value out of it? 



Mr. Gillette: As compared with the price of commercial 

 fertilizers, you do. * 



Mk. Wentworth : That is if a man had to buy commercial 

 fertilizer. As a matter of fact, we do not buy much commercial 

 fertilizer. 



