630 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



There is one thing I w;int to drive home to yon, and that is that 

 a two Imndrcd-ixunid cow is riglit on the dead line. I do not live at 

 my farm. I have to pay foi- all tlic labor. I might have a hundred 

 sucli cows, and 1 wonld he none tlic licttcr for having them; indeed, I 

 would be worse off, because it would jiuiioy me until I should probably 

 grow ugly ti-ying to get something out of tliose cows and not succeeding. 



"We can't tallc about cows without talking about the capacitj', and 

 that reminds me of a story. A lady in oiu' township has a little daughter 

 in school wlio didn't get along, and the mother was worried and went 

 to the teacher and asked her, "What is the matter?" The teacher re- 

 plied, "Your daughter hasn't any capacity." "Well," she says, "I'll have 

 her father go right down town and buy (me." Now, you can't buy your 

 capacity for cows any belter than for girls, and there will be no profit 

 in the cow tliat hasn't caiiacit.v. * 



The \\drl< was looked al'ler by Air. (;io\'er, wlio was doing field work 

 foi' tile Illinois lOxiu'i-imenl Slalion. lie came to my farm once in seven 

 weeks' took a sample of the milk and lested it liimself. He looked 

 closel.v afler what was being led to e;icli cow; the feed was not weighed 

 constantly, but the milk was weighed at evei-y milking and an accurate 

 I'ecord kejit. If lliere is ;inylning llial isn't just riglil here, it must 

 1)0 on the feed line, but Mr. (ilover is a very intelligent, conservative man. 



Question: Plow did you get tlie cost of labor? 



Mr. Gurlei-: 1 figm-ed that out several years ago, probably fifteen 

 or twenty, and I lia\-e foi'gotlen now the details of my figuring. 



Question: Wasn't there ;iny loss on the value of the cow everj' year? 



Mr. Gurler: Thei'e has been on the average cow, for the last three or 

 four years, xmtil the last year. Last spring I Avas able to buy new cows to 

 replace the culls out of my herd, with the money the cidl brought, but, as 

 a rule, there is a loss in the exchange. You can't get so much for a 

 cow for beef as you can for a fresh cow, as a I'ule, and the better the 

 cow the more loss, and that suggests another point. No one can afford 

 to feed a dry cow. AVheu you make u]) yom- mind you are going to 

 dispose of a cow, gi't :i little Hesh on her .and get rid of her as soon 

 as .you c;in .-ifter you h;i\'e done milking he?'. 



Question: That is all right for llie milkman, but not for the l)reeder. 



Mr. GiU'ler: I am not (.alking for l)recders. 



Question: Don't your cows ever get old, so they have to stop breed- 

 ing and milking? 



