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gives satisfactory results. Now, what does that mean ? It 

 means that a man who has ten cows should purchase this 

 little invention, which costs from twenty to thirty dollars, 

 and test the milk from those cows, keep a record of the tests, 

 and the one that is a defaulter to the amount of three dollars 

 a year, less or more, should be sent to the butcher, and the 

 one that just barely pays her way should go also. 



There are other points that might be touched upon ; in 

 fact, there are so many that I do not know that I will 

 attempt to refer to any others. I will simply say that, 

 while the experiment stations are making a great many 

 mistakes, yet they are doing much good work. But there 

 are certain duties on the part of the farmers toward the 

 experiment stations. Do not for a moment think that all 

 the duties are with the experiment stations. It is simply 

 the old story of leading a horse to drink. It does 

 not take a very able-bodied man to lead a moderately 

 docile horse to drink, but it certainly does require a good 

 deal of engineering and a good deal of skill to make 

 the horse drink if he is not disposed to do so. Now, 

 the same thing is true of the experiment stations. 

 The results which Professor Goessmann, Professor Henry, or 

 anybody else have given, if you do not study them and do 

 not apply them, are of no use to you. But the experiment 

 stations are not to blame for that. Take the matter of stock 

 feeding. I will just allude to it, as showing the importance 

 to the farmers of this country of saving one cent per day in 

 the cost of feeding cows. It seems like a small matter, but 

 the aggregate amount is quite a large sum. The experiment 

 stations of this country have published bulletins giving 

 instructions that will enable almost an}*- farmer to save one 

 cent per day in the food of every cow, and at the same time 

 secure as good results as he does with his present method 

 of feeding. What does that mean? A saving of one cent 

 per day on cows alone in the State of New Hampshire 

 means $1,000 per day, or $200,000 per year. There are 

 some of our farmers who appreciate the importance of this 

 saving, and some are saving two or three cents a day in 

 feeding their cattle ; and I believe that it is possible to save 

 three cents a day by studying and applying the most 



