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ness can stand that kind of treatment. What would become of 

 our manufacturers if they did that kind of work? They would 

 have to shut down their business. If your experiment station 

 down there can wake us up, if we can drive home that thought 

 that one cow made three times as much as the other from the 

 same kind of feed, we will be doing a world of good. 



Mr. Cobb: — I have here on the platform a milk sheet show- 

 ing the record which was taken last January, a year ago, and 

 also the same record of the herd as I bought them five years ago. 

 They increased 50 per cent in the yield in five years and 1 per 

 cent in fat yield. 



Mr. Gurler : — I will tell you one thing I did in my herd. I 

 did it without starting in to do it. When I started in the certified 

 milk work my milk tested 3.7 or 3.8. In applying this individual 

 test to the herd and weeding out unprofitable cows, without any 

 thought as to the percentage of fat in the milk but as to the profit 

 of the cow, I bought the standard of the milk up to 4 per cent. 

 That is my standard, and there is a little meat in that nut. When 

 I weed out the unprofitable cows it seemed to weed out some of 

 the low testing cows also. 



Air. Spies : — I would like to ask a question with regard to 

 the production of milk; it is a large question with us in the 

 southern part of the state and it is hard to get those farmers to 

 see it. Prof. Glover is up there close to Prof Haecker. and I 

 believe Prof. Haecker said some years ago that he produced milk 

 one year at 60 cents per hundred weight, and subsequently at 40 

 cents per hundred weight. Has the professor any knowledge 

 of any subsequent trials in this line? 



Prof. Glover : — I know Prof. Haecker carried on those ex- 

 periments and I know he produced milk at 60 cents per hundred 

 weight, and as low as 40 cents, but I do not think he has been 

 keeping account of what it has been costing him in latter years. 

 He is working on a new subject and I am certain he has not 

 published any results along this line. 



In the work we have done in the field we find cows are 

 charging all the way from 30 cents up, and some as high as one 



