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did not pick up in her milk, and after a reason- 

 able trial I sold her. 



The herd was doing excellently for mid-winter, 

 the yield amounted to a daily average of 840 

 pounds throughout the month, and I was able to 

 make good my contract with the middleman. I 

 could see breakers ahead, however, and it be- 

 hooved me to make ready for them. I decided 

 to buy ten more thoroughbreds in new milk, if 

 I could find them. I wrote to the people from 

 whom I had purchased the first herd, and after 

 a little delay secured nine cows in fresh milk 

 and about four years old. This addition came 

 in February, and kept my milk supply above the 

 danger point. Since then I have bought no 

 cows. Thirty-four of these thoroughbreds are 

 still at Four Oaks two of them have died, and 

 three have been sold for not keeping up to the 

 standard and are doing grand service. Their 

 numbers have been reenforced by twenty of their 

 best daughters, so there are at this writing fifty- 

 four milch cows and five yearling heifers in the 

 herd. Most of the calves have been disposed of 

 as soon as weaned. I have no room for more 

 stock on my place, and it doesn't pay to keep 

 them to sell as cows. Four Oaks is not a breed- 

 ing farm, but a factory farm, and everything has 

 to be subordinated to the factory idea. 



My thoroughbred calves have brought me an 

 average price of $12 each at four to six weeks, 

 sold to dairymen, and I am satisfied to do busi- 



