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see by this chart where two different men have paid the same amount 

 of cash. One pays $38.50 to keep his cow in feed and lost $4.71 per 

 cow, and the other paid the same amount, $38.50, and made a gain of 

 $7.45, and you might compare other figures where the cost of keeping 

 was exactly the same but the results are altogether different, and you 

 see they have the same amount of blood back of them. They are all 

 Jerseys, but you have not the same man with the same brains. One man 

 may have certain feeds and make a profit, and another man have the 

 same thing but does not know how to combine them and put them into 

 a cow and get the same results. I sometimes think there are people 

 who have no business to have any kind of cow, are not even fit to take 

 care of the scrubs I showed you first. By this chart I showed you that 

 those scrawny, bony, thirty cent cows were just as good in the hands of 

 the farmer that owned them before the college bought them as they 

 were afterwards, but the man did not have the brains to bring it out. 



Here is an illustration. If you can see this chart you will see what 

 brains do for dairy farming. Here is a dairy barn (showing picture 

 of barn). There are three boards kicked off by the horses; a great big 

 pond in front, does not look as though it were twenty feet from the 

 barn; here is the bob sleigh standing out where it has been all sum- 

 mer; here is the dump where the stuff is thrown over to the hogs; two 

 buggies standing outside, not a thing taken care of. That was a good 

 barn but the man did not have brains to take care of it. Here is a dairy 

 barn from which milk goes to the city; forty cows are kept in this dairy 

 barn. This is a fright, and that is all there is to say about it; the 

 hole by the water tank, the milk- can standing in the mud just where it 

 was left, nothing is taken care of. It is not the fault of the conditions, 

 it is the fault of the man. You cannot blame those conditions. I would 

 not blame a man for buying a farm and be on it for a few months where 

 such conditions prevailed, but if he remains there long and does not 

 better things, then that man is to blame. I had a worse looking shed 

 when I went on the farm; tore it down and built a new one, A man is 

 to blame for the conditions that exist not as he finds them, but if he 

 allows them to exist. 



Now if I have anything lo say to the buttermakers it is about the 

 same things. We hear a great deal about standardizing of dairy 

 products. Do you know what I believe, — I believe in Standard Oil. 

 There is not a starter that a buttermaker can use that will do him 

 as much good as kerosene oil; it will not put your butter off flavor, it 

 will give it flavor. You burn the midnight kerosene oil and you will 

 get the starter that will bring your premiums up, up, up. Y''ou watch 

 those dairy contest reports; some of the boys started down at 91 and 

 have been coming up to 97. How did they get there? By chance? 

 No, they have been burning standard oil. You might think (I do not 

 know whether I ought to say this in this place or not, but you will 

 pardon me if I step on anybody's toes) you might think from some 

 items that a man wins a prize because he uses a certain line of goods. 

 That is not the case, it is because he burns kerosene oil. You might 

 take one of those 98 fellows, and take away from him the regular 



