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Me. Graham: I have changed several times from 

 timothy to clover, and every time there was a large in- 

 crease in the yield of cream. I cut my clover as early 

 as I can, when it is in blossom. 



Mr. Gurler: My experience with clover is, if it does 

 not grow so rank as to fall down, if it stands up and is 

 cut in full blossom, it is the best milk producer of 

 any dry feed I have ever fed ; but if it grows so rank 

 that it lodges, then it is taking damage, and the result 

 won't be nearly so good. 



Mr. Johnson: There are fifty dairymen hereto-day 

 to find out whether the Babcock test is of any prac- 

 tical use to them. 



Mr. Gurler: I will tell what I have done" in my 

 dairy. I have nearly one hundred animals. Sixty-five 

 that we were milking in the month of January, and 

 they are so near alike that we can't tel] them all with- 

 out putting numbers in their ears. We give each cow 

 a number and each number a page in a little book. 

 Twice a month we weigh up the milk for the day, 

 and that is recorded, and once a month we work out 

 the test, and that is recorded, and when we get to the 

 end of the year, we are going to tell pretty nearly 

 what each cow has made, and the cow that doesn't 

 come up to the standard, unless there is something in 

 her condition that isn't right, why she has got to go to 

 the butcher. We don't propose to keep cows in a dairy 

 that don't make us a profit. 



Question: What do you call a satisfactory point m 

 a cow, the standard, as you call it? 



Mr. Gurler: I don't want any cow in my dairy 

 that won't make two hundred and twenty-five or two 

 hundred and fifty pounds of butter a year. 



Question: What is your stock ? 



