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system of feeding, is better evidence than it is to have someone 

 over in Indiana tell you something else? 



Oh, yes, assuredly. 



Mr. Judd: That is why I got up before you yesterday and 

 told you that I consdered my system far superior to the one I 

 was using previously, because I am the man that runs the milk 

 pail everyday, I am the man that takes in the money from my 

 herd and if I get more money, more pounds of milk from that 

 system of feed, I claim that I know from my own experience 

 that it is the superior way and I don't think it depends on some 

 experiment station to tell me about the other way, so I would 

 consider Mr. Boyd's experience far superior to any experiment 

 station that takes a few cows for a short time and carries on an 

 experiment and gets a general result. I think Mr. Chubbock 

 made a statement that ought not to go on record. He said he 

 considered from an experiment carried on by their Station that 

 a ton of clover hay and a ton of corn fodder were equal to two 

 tons of timothy hay. Now, I think that any farmer will admit 

 -that one ton of clover hay is equal to two tons of timothy hay. 

 Any of us can prove that corn fodder is worth twice as much as 

 timothy hay. Indeed, I say that a ton of clover hay and a ton 

 of corn fodder are equal to four tons of timothy hay. I can't 

 comprehend that statement. 



Mr. Chubbock: That was what the figures of the Experiment 

 Station sustained. It is not my opinion at all. 



Mr. Monrad: I am sorry to hear friend Judd speak that" 

 way about the Experiment Stations. They carry on experiments 

 that it is impossible for the farmers to carry on, they don't know 

 how to do it in the first place. Feeding experiments are very 

 difficult, there are so many elements entering into it that have 

 to be considered. With all due respect to Mr. Judd's experience 

 on the farm, I must say that unless he was there all the time, 

 and carried on careful experiments, he would be like the farm- 

 er's wife that told me, when I suggested the use of the separator, 

 that she was getting all of the milk from the cream. I said, 

 ''How do you know it?" "Why, I left that skim milk setting 

 twelve hours longer and not a bit of cream raised on it. "Now, 



