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how he could do it. The most of them up there were not making 

 money at all. He aimed to have his cows freshen in the fall. 

 He had a log stable, but that stable was warm, and had windows 

 in it to make it light, and he had plenty of fresh air. ''How 

 do you water those cows ?" I said to him. He said "There's a 

 spring down there that never freezes over. I let them go there 

 if it is not too cold. If it is too cold I bring water from the 

 house." "Isn't that a lot of trouble?" I asked him, and he said 

 "It is some trouble, but I can't afford to let them go out when 

 it is too cold, I get less milk." 



If you put a part of your life into this business, put it in 

 in such a way that you may have something to show for it at 

 the end of the year. Feed your cows regularly, keep them warm, 

 comfortable and healthy, and you may reasonably expect them 

 to yield profitably. 



Mr. Mason. Q : — Do you believe in feeding your cows all 

 the feed they will take? 



A: — Most certainly I do sir. It will take about $20.00 

 worth of feed to keep a cow a cow, that is, it requires about 

 $20.00 worth of feed as a rule to maintain a dry cow weighing 

 1200 lbs. When I first started in to keep an account of my herd, 

 I was feeding about $30.00 worth of feed, and it took about 

 $20.00 worth to run the machinery. That machine made me 

 about $40.00 worth of milk. As I studied that proposition, I 

 thought it was too expensive a machine or I wasn't handling it 

 right. vSo I studied to know what to feed and how to feed it. 

 And after years of thought and experience have concluded that 

 a cow must be induced to eat all she can digest and assimilate, 

 and in the last five years our cows have consumed an average of 

 about $40.00 worth of feed. It takes only about the same $20.00 

 worth of feed to run that machinery which is a dead loss, 

 except for manure. Instead of converting $10.00 worth of feed 

 into milk, she is now converting $20.00 worth into milk and now 

 making me $80.00 worth of milk. If $10.00 worth of feed will 

 make $40,00 worth of milk, why not $20.00 worth make just 

 as much again ? By studying to know what to feed, I am getting 

 as much profit in one year, as I did in four years before. We 



