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cow. ]\[j idea is to get down to fifty cows, and a herd rate 

 per cow that is greater. My ideal is a fifty-cow herd, with an 

 average yield of 8,000 pounds of milk per cow. 



Question. Do you raise grains on your farm ? 



Mr. Daniels. No; we have no room. When our father 

 left us the farm, twenty years ago, we kept only five cows and 

 a pair of horses. To-day we are carrying, as I have stated, 

 about one hundred head of stock, and all the money we have, 

 we secured in the business. 



Question. Are you getting the same returns from the cap- 

 ital invested in your farm as you would expect from a manu- 

 facturing business ? 



Mr. Daniels. I do not think we are getting as much as 

 some. When we took the farm, we thought that we would like 

 to sell it and buy another, which seemed to us to be better 

 suited to the business. We had the place in a real estate man's 

 hands for a year at $2,800, and could not find a purchaser. A 

 short time ago we thought that we might sell the farm ; and, in 

 figuring up to find out what we should ask for it, I found that 

 we would have to get at least $28,000, in order to get back 

 the money we had spent on it; and that money all came out 

 of the farm itself. 



Mr. Reed. How much protein do you use ? 



Mr. Daniels. We use an average of a ton and a quarter 

 protein feeds per cow. I believe in feeding the young stock 

 just as well as the mature cow, and getting them into such 

 shape that when they go into the milking herd they are ready 

 to do business. While we cannot grow our grain, we can buy 

 it and make a profit at present prices, with the class of cows 

 we keep. I believe it is all right to buy our grain if we have 

 learned how to feed what we buy, but not for the $30 cow 

 spoken of. 



Mr. Reed. From what you have said, we had better put all 

 our corn into the silo. All through the State they are saying 

 we ought to husk our corn and thresh our grain ; but the 

 farmer of experience knows it is hard to get rid of the corn 

 stover and the threshed grain. 



Mr. Daniels. Perhaps I could illustrate the system of 

 husking your corn, paying the miller for grinding it, and then 



