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see the cows take hold with a vim to their feed. I built a silo 

 and feed silage. I keep everything clean. I keep the manger 

 clean so that when I put that good food there they like it. It 

 would induce them to eat all they possibly could. When I feed 

 them regularly a variety of feed, palatable feed, and keep the 

 mangers and quarters clean, instead of their eating $30 or $28 

 worth of feed, I get them to eat $38 worth of feed. Last year 

 it cost me $41 to feed the cow, the year before $39, before that 

 $38.47, but just let me drop a hint. Men say that feed 

 is getting so high it does no pay to dairy. Dairying has been 

 going up in Michigan as in Illinois and the profits the same. 

 Three years ago when it cost me $28.47, I got $90.16 worth of 

 products from each cow. Next year when it cost $39, I got 

 $92.70 worth of product. This year $41.00, I got $100.16 worth 

 of products. So you don't need to be scared. Get better cows, 

 give them better care and handle them to get the products out of 

 them. 



Now let me go back to that feed proposition. When I fed 

 $28 worth of feed, I got $40 worth of products. Now by feed- 

 ing those cows regularly a variety of palatable feed I used $38 

 worth of feed, what more does it cost me to run that machinery? 

 Practically the same. The cost of running that machine is prac- 

 tically the same. Then I got $10 worth to convert into milk now 

 I get $20 to convert into milk. On the average I am getting 

 twice as much dairy product. Now I am feeding $38 to $40 and 

 getting $90 worth of milk, I am getting 40 to 50 per cent more. 

 Over in Michigan more men are lying awake nights over the 

 proposition of how to get their cows to eat more, and they are 

 losing out on it. Just let me illustrate by taking another piece 

 of machinery. Supposing it was a threshing machine charging 

 two cents a bushel, 500 bushels he gets $10, just enough to run 

 the machinery. He could thresh until he was as old as Methu- 

 selah and never be any better off, because he is only running 

 enough through to pay for the operating. Suppose he runs 750 

 bushels how much more would it take to thresh that than the 500 



