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liis man down to make a contract with me, but I wouldn't con- 

 tract with anybody, except at my price, and that price was 14 

 cents average, the year around. There were four months in the 

 winter it was 16 cents and two spring months it was 12, but he 

 thought he couldn't do without my milk. He said that my milk 

 -always came in sweet and in good condition and I supplied 

 from two to three wagons right straight along. He said that 

 when they got short of milk they could send right down to the 

 train and take my milk off and put it on the wagons without 

 having it tested. 



Mr. Pearson: What was the average yield per cow.'* 



Mr. Spies: We kept our accounts more by measure than by 

 weight. If a cow would not give milk but ten months, we ex- 

 pected her not to go under a gallon and a half. 



Mr. Monrad: Do I understand you to say that you can 

 feed a dairy cow for two and a half cents a day.-* I think that 

 is what Prof. Plumb referred to when he said you exaggerated. 



Mr. Spies: You go out into the corn field and see the corn 

 and feed it green and it will take only two and a half cents a 

 day. I do not combine other grains with that, I just cut it and 

 feed it in that condition. 



Mr. Monrad: You mean it will keep a cow alive, not feed 

 it.? 



Mr. Spies: I will feed her all she wants to eat. You take 

 six hills of corn twice a day and you figure out how many hills 

 of corn there are in an acre, and you will find you can do it, 

 providing you do not value your corn over what it is actually 

 worth. 



Mrs. Mayo: I am a farmer's wife, and I want to ask a few 

 questions. I want to know, in the first place, why there are 

 not more farmers' wives here. This is a dairymans' convention 

 and I know from practical experience that these farmers' wives, 

 upon these little farms scattered all over this country, are 

 making butter, and their product ought to count for something, 

 and while we are here listening with a great deal of financial 

 profit to these essays by these large dairymen, I am wondering 



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