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ten days weigh the milk, morning and night. Multiply by ten 

 and we know near enough how much that cow is giving in milk. 

 If in the butter business, go farther and test it occasionally, at 

 least three times a year, and better yet, once a month to find out 

 how much fat is in the milk so you may know the value of it. 

 Then you must know about the feed. It don't take much time. 

 I go in the barn when the cow is being fed and pick up the hay 

 and weigh it. From that to another one, and so on. I know 

 the value of that per ton, and it only takes me a short time to 

 know the value. Will the man feed the same? I don't know. 

 He may feed a little more or less, but I have the average feed. 

 I will do the same with corn stover and the ensilage for the grain 

 I use a small measure and know how much that will hold and 

 what it weighs. Over each cow is a file 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, that 

 shows how many each cow can be fed. Thus I know what it is 

 costing me. 



The question the men always ask, "Does it pay?" Two 

 young men in my country were dairying, one on one side of the 

 road, the other on the other side. They were told not to go it 

 blind, but to know what they were doing. It appealed to one 

 young man. He bought a scale and a test and paid five dollars 

 for the two. He took time enough to weigh and test the milk. 

 At the end of the year he knew very nearly what every cow was 

 doing from his record of feed and what they had paid for it. 

 The other man said if he fed his cows it was all the time he had. 

 What was the result? After three years, one got 250 pounds of 

 butter per cow, and the other got 200 per cow. Which got the 

 250? It was the man who got rid of his poor cows. The other 

 one had the same chance to do that work, but did not want to do 

 it. One got 250 pounds and the other 200 pounds. It re- 

 quired the value of the first 150 pounds of butter to feed those 

 cows and take care of them. The result one man had 100 pounds 

 of butter profit, and the other one only had 50 pounds profit be- 

 cause he would not take time to find out. That young man 

 made the worst mistake of his life, he didn't have time to know 



