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put steam in her, and when she gets down to twenty- 

 five pounds of milk a day, she will make over two 

 pounds of butter." I told him how I had got my cows 

 to eat enormous quantities of feed, and yet I was not 

 getting the results that I looked for. Says he, " You 

 didn't keep it up long enough." Well, I had a cow 

 that I had just tested the year before, and the milk 

 record, at the time that I tested her, varied from thirty- 

 eight to forty pounds of milk a day. Well, she was 

 fed good, strong feed. I was feeding then hominy 

 meal, corn hearts, and she was on pasture. It was in 

 the summer time and she was fresh. I set her milk 

 and raised the cream and churned the butter. I couldn't 

 make two pounds of butter from that yield. I tried 

 it for seven days running, and I couldn't do it, and 

 I gave up testing her, that is, I gave up keeping the 

 account of the quantity of butter, but I continued her 

 feed, fed her liberally, and the next year, about the same 

 time, she dropped her calf about the same time of year 

 that she did the year before, and then I commenced 

 testing her again. This year she gave not over thirty- 

 five pounds of milk a day, less than she had the year be 

 fore, and I separated it, and I gave her a week's test, but 

 I couldn't make two pounds a day any day that I tested 

 her. I was busy at that time, so that I was not able 

 to keep an account of her milk. I kept an account of 

 the weight of her milk all through the } 7 ear, but 1 

 kept no account of the quantity of fat, thinking that 

 later on I could test her again, and I continued a good, 

 heavy feed. I gave her then shorts from the mill, that 

 is, fine bran, really the hearts of the wheat. I fed her 

 very liberally, she calved in July and I tested her in 

 August. 

 In October I found time again to make another test, 



