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his business. The worst of it is, he will have to take time to 

 make up for what he did not know. He must take care of them 

 for another year, and then have only the same as his neighbor 

 had in one year. He put in two years to accomplish what his 

 neighbor accomplishetd in one year. We cannot afford to be so 

 busy that we cannot take time to know our business. 



In one of the southern Michigan towns I met two young men 

 and talked same thing to them ten years ago. We went into the 

 details of this proposition and they started to practice it. I was 

 there two years ago, and these young men were there with a rec- 

 ord of cost and how much each cow had paid for feed. The rec- 

 ords showed the first year they got an average of 184 pounds of 

 butter per cow. Some went above 200 and some only above 100. 

 They sold off the cows that did not pay, and got better cows. 

 They studied how to feed and care for them, and when you begin 

 to figure on this you will look at the little things that go to make 

 success. Their average was 184 pounds of butter. After eight 

 years of that sort of work, what was their average? 376 pounds 

 of butter per cow. They started with 184 pounds and worked 

 up to 376. How much more profit was there in one year to those 

 men getting 376 pounds than when getting 184. They were 

 making more clear money in one year with 376 pounds, than 

 they made in 10 years when getting 184 pounds. Consequently 

 by knowing their business they had multiplied that part of their 

 life by ten. No investment a man can make that pays him so 

 well as to know his business, and be able to multiply the value 

 of his time by 10. That cow that pays you the most for a dol- 

 lar's worth of feed, and at the end of a year made the profit, is 

 the cow that it pays you to keep, and you cannot afford to keep 

 the poor ones. 



Feeding and Care. 



Many a cow in Michigan, and I presume in .Illinois too 

 has been condemned as a poor cow because she never has paid 

 a profit, or only a small profit, when the cow was not to blame for 



