122 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



and twenty-four men, separate it, manufacture it, market 

 the butter, and charge them four cents a pound. We have 

 been enabled to secure the very best market of any creamery 

 in that section, thus enhancing their returns. Now, the same 

 sky is above these men, the same soil beneath them, the 

 same market in front of them, and the same creamery behind 

 them. But what is the difference ? At the head of that list 

 stands a man by the name of McPherson, with thirty-five 

 cows. I paid him last year sixty-three dollars and fifty-one 

 cents for the earnings of each of those cows, and he had 

 the skim-milk beside. I have paid him as high as seventy 

 dollars. At the foot of the list is a man to whom I paid 

 forty dollars last year, and I have paid him thirty-five dollars. 

 He has twenty cows. He is troubled with abandonment. I 

 tell you there is nothing under God's heaven that will help 

 that man except a funeral. He is a gone case. Now, the 

 first man was intelligent enough twelve years ago to look 

 into this matter. He came into my office one day, and said, 

 " I have got tired of keeping cows that make only one 

 hundred and fifty pounds of butter apiece ; what shall I do?" 

 I said, "McPherson, I am glad to hear you say that; we 

 will study it together." He had a herd of grade Shorthorns, 

 and they were giving him one hundred and fifty pounds of 

 butter apiece a year. If he undertook to crowd them any 

 more, he crowded the whole thing into flesh. I said, " Let 

 us get a good herd of cows," and so we went at it. The 

 result is that he has a herd of cows to-day that make an 

 average of over three hundred pounds of butter per cow, 

 and there is not a penny of additional cost for the support 

 of the bodies of those cows ; I doubt very much if they cost 

 so much. The old herd averaged about eleven hundred 

 pounds, and his present herd average about eight hundred 

 and fifty or nine hundred. Now, it cost this other man that 

 got only forty dollars a head thirty dollars to keep his 

 cows. I have every item of that man's expenses and history. 

 It did not cost very much investigation to get it. 



Question. Have you got his pedigree ? 



Governor Hoard. He is a scrub, and a scrub has no 

 record. Now, I never talked so sharply to any other man as 

 I have to him. He has left that creamery half a dozen times. 



