60 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



oleetric lights or acetylene gas, with water piped from the 

 best springs, with steam heat and modern sanitary toilet and 

 bathrooms in onr country houses equal to the best system that 

 can be found in any of our cities, and with the last great 

 barrier, isolation, overcome by the quick and powerful auto- 

 mobile we are in a position to-day to get the greatest enjoy- 

 ment out of life on the farm. 



The CiiAiKMAisr. The preliminary remarks of the gentle- 

 man remind me of a story one of our friends told us. A 

 man crossing the Atlantic was pretty seasick, and sent for 

 the commander of the steamer, and said, " I would like to 

 have you take care of my remains." Later he sent again, 

 and said, "" Your services won't be needed, for there will be 

 no remains." I want to say to ]\Ir. Daniels that he has cov- 

 ered the subject so well, I don't see how there can be any 

 remains, but if anybody wants to ask a question, Mr. Daniels 

 is ready to answer it. 



Question. Do you use a roller or any other means of 

 smoothing the ground after harrowing ? 



Mr. Daniels. Yes ; we use a roller after scratching the 

 grass seed in with our big weeder. The weeder is at least 

 11 feet wide with a spring seat on it. 



I have given you an illustration of the practical a])!)lica- 

 tion of this summer silage feeding to our cows during this 

 dry season. It is the thing that saved the day, and if you 

 were to go over these records wnth me you would find that 

 the cows kept up a uniform production of milk. It is our 

 ambition to have 50 cows that will produce 8,000 pounds of 

 milk a year. With G3 milking we have reached as high as 

 7,300 pounds. 



]Srow there is one other thing to help along the cause of 

 producing milk economically, and that is the co-operative 

 purchasing of our grain. INFany of you are buying grain at 

 the retail price ; we have been for years in our State, and 

 we have paid the dealer from $2 to $5 a ton more than if we 

 had organized and bought by the carload. After thinking 

 it over and talking it over we finally called a meeting of our 



