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Egypt, another class of dairymen who are never a success 

 are those that do not use lime. 



I am not saying we should not have organization — ^the 

 speakers here this morning said we should organize. We 

 should have cow testing associations. We are here as a 

 State Dairymen's Association to help us in the production of 

 milk and we ought in our day certainly to have an organiz- 

 ation that works with the distributors, sits in with them and 

 talks over the price we are to get for our product. 



I am not here to say that pure-bred cows are not good. 

 They are good and the man who can get cows such as we 

 were told of this morning is a very fortunate man and I do 

 not see how he can fail to get rich. 



And then, he who does not use lime is one who does 

 not raise all of his feed. 



If we who are in this business do not raise all of the 

 feed we possibly can, we are not going to be the success that 

 we would be if we raised the most of our feed. 



Then, I think that I know of three classes of dairymen 

 who are a success: 



You may not have thought of them in this way, but 

 one of the men whom I think is a success nearly every time 

 is the man who milks regularly. Do you do that? Do I do 

 that? Why not? Other things are pressing on us and the 

 time of milking varies. We can't milk our cows regular on 

 that kind of basis. 



Another class of dairymen who are successful are 

 those who keep their cows warm. We may think it does 

 not hurt to turn them out in the cold, but it does, and a cow 

 is not at her best unless she is comfortable and warm. It 

 does not cost a fortune to keep them warm. I am not advo- 

 cating high-priced heating devices. There is very little ex- 

 pense. We can make our- stable warm with very little 

 added expense and with very great returns. The main 

 thing is to fix your barn up so as to prevent draught and 

 cold from penetrating. 



These people that I have named are all progressive 

 dairymen. I see them and I know them. 



We all have experimented. I do not mean by that that 



