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afraid of the bacteria they claim they find in the milk, although 

 I have sold a condensary there as high as one thousand pounds a 

 day of my own production made from ensilage milk and they 

 condensed it themselves, and found that ensilage milk was just 

 as good — that is it did not retard or decrease the keeping quali- 

 ties of the condensed milk and in that way it was a first-class 

 success. 



I am a strong advocate of the silo, because it is going to do 

 as much good as anything else, but I have been requested by the 

 people down there to say nothing, have been muzzled down there 

 as long as I will stand it. I will back up any body of farmers 

 that want to build silos, because it is going to be a blessing to 

 them. The prices of milk are better down there than here, and 

 still farmers think they cannot afford to make milk because it 

 comes too high. They sell milk at $1.00 per cwt., and still they 

 say they cannot afford to make it. You gentlemen know it does 

 not cost $1.00 per cwt. to produce it up here, and it does not cost 

 them that, but some people, I guess, are not making anything 

 even at high prices, even at $1.50, the price right now. some 

 people say there is no money in the milk business, that is in milk- 

 ing and dairying, because the milk costs them too much — and 

 yet there is a possibility, there is good cattle down there. There 

 have been some imported cattle in that country, there since 1884. 

 There have been some of the best registered stock down there, 

 where the calves have been sold as low as $12.50. The farmers 

 did not know they should have these kind of calves, but they 

 have found since those calves have grown up there is money in 

 them. 



I am glad Mr. Hopper came down there and backed up what 

 they had been taught, and now they are convinced. That is the 

 reason they are interested. I know the gentleman Mr. Hopper 

 referred to who sold the six cows and purchased one. The man 

 made a good investment; he sold six cows that were not produc- 

 ing much profit and bought one that ate only one-sixth of what 

 the others did and gave perhaps not quite as much milk, but a 

 good deal more than the others were giving in proportion. 



