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the milk tests invented in our experiment stations are 

 worth all the money that has been expended, if our 

 dairymen could be made to realize their importance. 

 It is impossible for the private dairymen to work out 

 these important questions. He can not afford to do it. 

 There is a limit to the number of cows that can be 

 kept in one herd profitably. From my own experience 

 I believe that the profit per cow will decrease after the 

 number reaches fifty or seventy-five. When it comes to 

 manufacturing the product from these cows the larger 

 the quantity the less the cost per pound to manufacture. 

 The man with a few cows can really produce the 

 milk for less money than the man with a very large 

 number, equal intelligence being used in both cases. 

 The ordinary farmer, in fact does not produce his milk 

 as cheaply as a man who makes a business of dairying 

 and follows it intelligently and systematically, from the 

 fact that generally most farmers look upon the income 

 from butter something as they do that from the poultry, 

 as simply a little extra money to buy cigars for them- 

 selves or pin money for their wives. Did you ever 

 think that the butter for an ordinary family costs as 

 much and very often more than the flour, to say noth- 

 ing of the value of milk and cheese consumed. The 

 value of the dairy product of the United States is so 

 great that we can scarcely conceive of it and still the 

 dairy industry is not one-half developed and a very 

 large per cent, of butter and cheese made does not 

 realize its true possible value from ignorance in its 

 manufacture. We must have schools to educate our 

 dairymen, our butter and cheese makers, as we do our 

 doctors and our lawyers. There is no more reason why 

 an incompetent person should be allowed to have 

 charge of a butter or cheese factory, where the health 



