570 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



member of the State Association for several years past, I thinlc it prudent 

 on the part of the dairy industry of this State to issue that in pamphlet 

 form and let each one of us issue it to our patrons, and also to every per- 

 son that has any interest in this matter, and I tliink it is policy on the part 

 of this Association or Purdue University to issue a pamphlet on this 

 subject. 



The Secretary: Mr. Chairman, I may say I visited the dairy farm 

 where Miss Parsons :s at work, and I know that everything is in nice 

 shape down there, and that they have increased their herd from two or 

 three cows at the time she went home from the school to some twelve or 

 fourteen, and they have more calls for butter of the grade they make than 

 they can supply, and at a higher price than is paid for dairy butter. 



The President: Perhaps it would not be out of place to ask Miss Par- 

 sons to give some idea as to how she handles her cream; we would like 

 to hear from her. 



Miss Parsons: Well, our cream is handled much in the same way that 

 Mr. Fisher said he handled his cream. We usually put our cream to ripen 

 the morning previous and then we churn the next morning early. 



Mr. Dowd: At what temperature do you churn? 



Miss Parsons: We usually churn at about 58 or 60 degrees. I think 

 we have more butter at 58 degrees, but it takes longer to come, about 35 

 minutes. 



The President: The next will be a violin solo, by Miss Ross. 



Mr. Argo: There is one question I would like to ask the gentleman, 

 and that is, taking the cattle from that shed into the milking department, 

 will we have some kind of feed in there to toll the cow? 



Dr. Bitting: I would always have some kind of feed for the cow when 

 I milked her. 



Dr. Woolen: We haven't had many special papers here today; they 

 have been more in the form of questions, but this last paper is of such a 

 nature I feel there ought to be a personal indorsement of it. We can talk 

 as much as we please about our notions about dairying and about the kind 

 of cattle that we will have and about all these other things, but if we do 

 not adhere to what the doctor has told us more or less closely, our work 

 has been in vain. I think that the audience will pardon me if I announce 



