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A Member: Your idea is that you can't get the cow to give 

 any richer milk no matter how you feed her? 



Mr. Judd: If she don't give more than 3 per cent, milk you 

 can't get any more. 



A Member: How do you account for the fact that I hate 

 raised the per cent, of fat? 



Mr. Judd: You have got them into better health by feeding. 



Question: Will that account for the milk being richer in 

 butter fat? 



Mr. Judd: Yes, it will every time. You have fed health 

 into your dairy by adopting this system. There is a gentleman 

 sitting over there who has followed my process, and I would 

 like to have him stand right up and tell what he thinks of it. I 

 received a letter from him last spring in which he said, "I have 

 followed your system this winter and my neighbors have follow- 

 ed it with me, and where we owned grinding mills of our own 

 before, there hasn't been a wheel turned this year and every 

 man in the neighborhood that has followed it has been making 

 money." I don't want any better endorsement than that. 



Mr. Boyd: How has your milk been disposed of? 



Mr. Judd: I take it to the condensing factory. 



Mr. Boyd: Do they estimate the butter fat in the milk? 



Mr. Judd: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Boyd: And do they pay you according to the butter fati*" 



Mr. Judd: No, sir; but they keep a record of it, they are 

 testing it all the time. My herd has been tested about every 

 two days right along. 



Mr. Spicer: Would you advise a man that had a good silo 

 to change to your way of doing? 



Mr. Judd: I wouldn't advise at all, because I don't know 

 anything about a silo. We are prohibited from that. 



Mr. Spicer: If you feed out your straw, what do you bed 

 your cows with? 



Mr. Judd: I raise more every year than I feed the cows, and 

 of course I thresh every year. 



Mr. Spicer: What becomes of the rough corn fodder, stalks? 



Mr. Judd: The stalk is trimmed right down and the pigs 



