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way we have managed to cover twenty acres of ground a 

 year with manure. Now, if you can't make that much 

 manure, make all you can. You may think you will get 

 lots of manure from the straw stack, but the manure doesn't 

 count very much that we get from the stall, because there is 

 nothing to it. By taking the same straw and putting it in 

 the shed, you have got something. 



It is very important that we have water for our cows; 

 good water and plenty of it. During the winter time, have 

 it without any ice in it and have it where the cows don't 

 have to go out in the cold to get it. It is not very hard for 

 us to take better care of our cows, to be kind to them and 

 give them enough water. 



Give your cows lots of salt; make their feed salty. 

 Our grain ration for a day consists of the following: 200 

 pounds of ground oats; 200 pounds of ground corn; 100 

 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of linseed meal. That is 

 what makes our ration cost $1.95 per hundred, because 

 these are high-priced feeds, and in this grain mixture there 

 is always a little salt. We figure that the cow likes its feed 

 flavored with salt just as w^ell as we do. There is always a 

 quantity of it in the shed where the cows have free access 

 to it. 



We may think that if we have better cows and better 

 sires our calves are going to be good and first-class. I am 

 very well satisfied if our cows go so that we can keep one- 

 half of them and get them to be better than before. It is of 

 importance to get our cows so that we can save all of them 

 and have all of them good cows. But sometimes a calf or 

 heifer may come in and may not be well the first year. We 

 ought always to keep them for the second year at least. 



Sometimes we think that the thing for the farmer is 

 political help. Mr. Coolidge intimated in his talk at Chi- 

 cago that he is for the farmer to save himself. The trouble 

 with us is that we never fight until we get mad. We ought 

 to be continually in a good-natured fight for our rights 

 wherever we are and whatever we are doing and not wait 

 until we get good and mad before this fight takes place. 



Then, another thing that keeps us from being success- 



