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pretty sure that your herd will begin to improve. Use some 

 breed that suits joiir fancy and stick to that breed. If you 

 have skim milk, and give your cows enough other feed, you 

 can raise just as good heifers on that as on whole milk. The 

 reason I use whole milk is because I have no skim milk 

 to use. 



Mr. II. O. Daniels. The question has been asked as to 

 where we were going to get the man and get the cow. I say, 

 raise them both. I believe the man who is raising an Amer- 

 ican citizen to-day. and raising him so he will wish to become 

 an American farmer, occupies the highest position a man 

 can have. I believe the man who is trying to build up his 

 stock, and who puts his best effort and ability into the work, 

 will have a herd that he will be proud of. Start with a 

 pure-bred sire and I doubt if there is a man in this audience 

 who will not then go and get a pure-bred heifer to work with 

 him. That was the way we started, and we have 40 pure- 

 bred cattle to-day where we had not 1 five years ago. Pure- 

 bred cows are the best associates a man can have, and I 

 believe our !N^ew England boys can make out as Avell in life 

 in dairying as in any other business. The price of milk is 

 low because we have so many small producers, because we 

 have to keep so many of them to make a living. Cut off half 

 the herd, keep the better half, raise cows to reproduce it, and 

 save the money that goes into other States to keep the herd 

 going. The problem can be solved, and we can solve it just 

 as well as the other fellows. 



Dr. J. B. LiNr>SEY. I think that the lecturer has shown a 

 fine grasp of the dairy subject, though we may not agree 

 with him on every point. The question of cost of milk pro- 

 duction is a vital one to the average producer, and in the 

 past milk has sold for altogether too low a price, — less than 

 it cost to produce it under satisfactory conditions. I believe 

 that this is because the average farmer has not kno^^^l what 

 it costs him to produce milk. He has given his labor and 

 that of his family, and said that it did not cost anything, 

 with the result that the public at large has come to believe 

 that milk can be had for 5 or G cents a quart. They are 

 (iTadually realiziug that they must pay more. As soon as the 



