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will have to sell her." But he had different ideas about the 

 matter and advised me to hold on to her. Just to show you 

 how these things sometimes work out, this cow came fresh 

 last spring and she gave us four gallons of milk for at least 

 three hundred days. We think she has done very well. 



Some people say we should feed our cows and feed 

 them liberally while on pasture, but our cows merely get a 

 taste of food. We have found that this practice works out 

 pretty well. 



Now, we were told this morning that the thing for us 

 to do was to get a good sire and raise good cows and it 

 seems to me that getting better cows is the great thing for 

 us to do. There w^as a man in the Northern part of the 

 state who discussed this subject with me and, by the way 

 his name was the same as mine, Dorsey. He sold cows, Hol- 

 stein cows, by the carload and, incidentally, distributed t. b. 

 all over the country. 



Now then, we can't go out and buy a sire here or there, 

 because we don't know what we are going to get. We have 

 got to use our best judgment on this animal as to breeding 

 qualities and then we have got to use our judgment on the 

 man we are buying from. It is not always what you pay, 

 but what you get for your money is what counts. Let us 

 always try and get the most for our money. 



Raise all the feeds you can. This is of great import- 

 ance and, if we are going to be successful, that is the one 

 big thing we have got to do ; and then, we should raise the 

 right kind of feed. 



I heard of an Irishman who went out to get a job on 

 a farm. He was green and the farmer assigned him to the 

 job of feeding the stock. He fed the horses, cows, hogs and 

 geese alike. When the farmer asked him what he fed the 

 geese, he told him hay. "Did they eat it?" the farmer 

 asked, and he replied: '*No, but they were talking about 

 it when I left." (Laughter). 



We have these different feeds which we are talking 

 about and the thing to do is to get the feed best suited for 

 our own particular needs. Lime was a hard thing for me to 

 get confidence in. When my friends told me about it, I 



