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estimating the cost of feeding our cows, but 

 should learn from our own work what it costs. 

 This is not a diificult matter; the most difficult 

 part is to bring ourselves to realize that it will 

 pay us to do it. 



Trying to Do too Much. — The most of us are 

 trying to do too much, just a little more than is 

 profitable, more than we can do as it should be 

 done. I do not know when we acquire this habit, 

 but we have it and knowing the fact we should 

 try to break ourselves of it, as it is as unprofit- 

 able as to grow weeds in our cornfields. It is 

 worse, as the weeds in the cornfields may not 

 damage more than one year while the faults in 

 the management of our farms will remain for all 

 time if we do not eradicate them. Success de- 

 pends upon their being eradicated and it is as 

 necessary as to remove the weeds from our corn- 

 fields, if we are to produce 100 bushels of com 

 to the acre. That yield of corn to the acre is to 

 be much more common in the future than it 

 has been in the past. The breeders of corn are 

 sure to put the breeders of cows to shame in the 

 near future if they do not get wide-awake soon. 



Test the Cows. — Many dairymen have so 

 much to look after that they do not (or think 

 they do not) have time to look after the testing 

 of their cows. In such oaises get the boys, the 

 girls or the wife to look after it, and I will 

 guarantee that after it is followed a year you 



