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bushels. A little more fuel in the boiler, but they get $15, a prac- 

 tically $5 profit. They want to thresh 1,000 bushels and they 

 can just as well as not and then they would get $20. How much 

 more would it cost to run it through that machine. A little bit 

 more fuel, a little more attention to the belts and pulleys. But 

 the cost has been practically the same. When threshing 500 

 bushels no profit, when 750 bushels $5 profit and when 1,000 

 bushels there was $10 profit, just as much again. You take it in 

 the matter of profits in dairying or farming it takes considerable 

 of the first product just to pay for the cost of the production and 

 only a little more will double the profit. It is just so with the 

 dairy proposition. It is as true with a piece of dairy machinery, 

 with the cow as any other machinery, if run to its maximum ca- 

 pacity you get the largest profits. Think of this, regular feeding, 

 variety of feed, and keep things clean. 



By Mr. Lee: — I was going through on Illinois Central to 

 Springfield about ten miles west of here not long ago, and was 

 looking out of the window. On that morning it was cold, and 

 out there in the cornfield a man was trying to milk some Jersey 

 cows. Would he make any money under those conditions ? 



Mr. Hull, A : — Well if he is, there is a lot of fellows making 

 money in Michigan and Illinois. 



Care: — I was riding across Michigan a year ago with a gen- 

 tleman and it was a cold winter's morning. We saw on the left 

 side of the road a herd of presumably dairy cows, and looked 

 across the road, and there was the owner, buildings, barn, fences 

 and the house, and they really looked like the last remnants of 

 Ricketyville. He says to me, "There is an illustration. Here's 

 the result of his way of doing business. And you can set that 

 right down as a principle in dairying, when you see dairy cows 

 out those bitter cold winter's mornings, and the man's advertising 

 a system of dairying that means house, barn, fences and every- 

 thing else is going backward. 



There are two things that a man should ever keep before him 

 in caring for cows. The first thing, keep them healthy, and the 



