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and up to suit the customer. Averaged 45 cows milking. They 

 were brought in at 2 :30 in the afternoon and fed and then milked. 

 That milk was sent back to the dairy and scalded the next day 

 or the day after. The morning's milk is shipped direct to Ply- 

 mouth with the cream on hand. There were forty-five cows on 

 the average. He told me that was a little over the average. 

 $450.00 or over for the 45 cows for the month, ten dollars a head. 

 In the meantime he was making money off the herd. He sells 

 a great many cattle every year. The farmers of Devonshire 

 are doing just the same as they did 150 years ago. One was 

 milking 10 cows and she makes butter 3 times a week. She has 

 to weigh this butter up 16^ oz. to the pound. If they take 

 that butter to market and it is not up to weight they lose it. 

 These women have been doing it for 50 years. Now she is 

 selling it to what we call a middle man. They call it regulators. 



Q. — You think $10.00 pretty good revenue from a cow? 



A. — Yes sir, this is a special dairy. 



Q. — I have a dairy that isn't a special dairy, and the four 

 months of the winter my dairy brought in over $15.00 a cow. 



By Prof. Lee: — If the boys who took part in the contest 

 and butter judging will come together we will find out why there 

 is such a variation. It is too late tonight and I am tired. Meet 

 here tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. 



Q. — Could it be tonight, some of us have to go away? 



A. — Yes, meet right after the meeting. 



Adjourned until Thursday morning, January 21, 9 :30 A. M. 



