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^Ir. Daa'iei.s. Wc have GO cows inilkiug, each one of 

 which required 2,500 pounds of grain per year, which makes 

 a total of 75 tons for the herd. 



Mr. Erwin. Do you use the manure spreader the year 

 round ? 



]\Ir. Daniels. All the time except when there is not a 

 crop occupying the ground. In the latter part of July and 

 in August we use it in connection with the sowing of clover 

 and turnips, and l)egin top dressing some of our fields in tlie 

 latter month. In September we go on to our mowing fields, 

 and anywhere from September to April we are spreading 

 manure. 



Afterxoon Session. 



Secretary Ellsworth. I will now introduce to you IMr. 

 William E. Patrick of Warren, who will preside this after- 

 noon. 



Mr. Patrick. We are to be congratulated upon such 

 beautiful weather on this occasion up here in this fine old 

 town of Barre, and we are pleased to see so many out to hear 

 these lectures and attend these excellent exercises. So far 

 we have heard everything that was good, and we have en- 

 joyed it very much. The speaker this morning many of us 

 have heard before, and he filled the bill. It is my pleasure 

 this afternoon to introduce to you one whom I presume 

 hardly any of us have heard, but whom we shall be very 

 much pleased to hear upon this extremely important question. 

 I introduce Mr. Charles D. North of l^ew York, who will 

 address you on " Sanitary milk production by our present 

 milk producers through co-operation." 



