No. 4.] "PROTECTION FROM FLIES" CONTEST. 77 



and told our agent that he was receiving $100 more per 

 month for his milk than he received before he won the prize. 

 Immediately after the announcement of his winning that 

 prize in a local paper he received 50 more applications than 

 he could supply, and had to announce that he could take no 

 more new customers. He has raised the price 1 cent per 

 quart. Now, the lesson to be derived is that there may be 

 like opportunity for all winners in this contest, and there 

 are consumers who are ready and anxious to pay a fair price 

 for clean milk, people who don't stop at 10, 12 or 15 cents a 

 quart if they can be assured of clean milk such as these cot- 

 tons show. Here is an opportunity for winners in these 

 contests to get something out of it that is worth far more 

 than the prizes ; this, too, in addition to the educational fea- 

 ture which I have already mentioned. 



In regard to the fly contest, we didn't have a large number 

 of entries. We wish there had been more. These entries, 

 like the others, were confined to practical dairymen. There 

 were some very interesting entries. One farm which was 

 visited during this contest appeared to be one of the best 

 managed in Massachusetts, from the financial standpoint. It 

 didn't fit in this contest because of the rules of scoring, but 

 it exhibited the best " old-fashioned common sense " manage- 

 ment on the part of its owner that I have seen in a long time. 

 The principal products are cabbage, apples and potatoes. 

 Milk is made, but merely to get manure to grow crops and to 

 keep up and improve the fertility of the farm. That being 

 the object, there isn't a particle of manure wasted. Three 

 times a week, when the men go out to work after breakfast, 

 one of them hitches up the teams while the others go into the 

 barn cellar and throw some dry loam over the manure pile. 

 The horse manure is treated in the same way except that 

 it is also worked over by hogs. 



There is little breeding of flies about the premises. Noth- 

 ing appeared to be done in the way of trapping or screening 

 to protect from flies, — perhaps it wasn't needed. The barn 

 cellar containing 100 loads of manure was so well cared for 

 and so well ventilated that nothing disagreeable is brought 

 to one's attention. Here is a man who when he bought that 



