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and made it cost 5 cents a quart, but Dr. J. B. Lindsey said 

 that it cost more thau 5 cents, and I am satisfied that he is 

 nearer right than I. I think that a heifer costs just about 

 what the lecturer has indicated, perhaps a few dollars less, 

 say $100, but not less than that. I agree fully with the 

 lecturer that we should all keep good cows, but there are not 

 many lG,000-pound cows to be had at any price. I have a 

 heifer with her first calf that has given 12,000 pounds of 

 milk in nine months, and another heifer, that looks just as 

 good, and has given but 8,000 pounds. Perhaps next year 

 these same heifers will reverse their milk yields. All these 

 things must be taken into account, and all you can do is to 

 keep and breed good cows and keep them in good condition. 

 The consumers have to pay a fair price for everything they 

 buy, except milk, and that they expect to get for just what it 

 costs the farmer, with the freight charged back. 



Mr. P. M. H.VRwooD. I want to emphasize the courage 

 of the man who goes out and asks a decent price for his milk. 

 The chairman of this meeting and the secretary of this Board 

 are taking that stand and doing it successfully. Everything 

 depends on the last point the speaker made, — the market 

 and successful marketing. With decent prices and decent 

 profits you will see enthusiasm in the dairy business. One 

 reason why our milk producers do not get along better is that 

 they have to compete with too many sections. To-day much 

 of the milk sold in the Boston market is pasteurized, or par- 

 tially cooked, before it is shipped^ so that it may be brought 

 in from ISTew York and Canada. Milkmen and milk pro- 

 ducers do not hang together closely enough. Let the milk- 

 men of any town get together and agree to raise prices, and 

 it is probable that not more than one of them will stick it 

 out until the end of the season, and he will be very likely 1o 

 lose most of his customers. 



Mr. John Bursley. T would like to ask the lecturer to 

 give us some points on raising the standard of the average 

 dairy herd. 



IVfr. PiERRoxT. Pirst, get a pure-bred sire, whose daui 

 and whose sire's dam was a good milk lu-oducer, of the pat- 

 tern von want vour future herd made from, and yon can feel 



