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herds. Prof. Fraser's address was along the same line as given 

 elsewhere in this report. 



Prof. Hayden discussed feeds and feeding. He had charts 

 showing the composition of feeds and explained how necessary 

 it was that cows get plenty of certain elements and explained 

 about compounding rations to give the proper feed. Mr. Hay- 

 den urged the growing of cow peas or alfalfa because of the 

 large amount of protein in these feeds and had interesting dis- 

 cussions at each meeting place on the growing of alfalfa. It 

 was evident that trie growing of this crop is not yet well under- 

 stood in the sections where the meetings were held. At every 

 meeting close attention was given to the discussion of feeds and 

 many questions were asked, all of which Prof. Hayden an- 

 s^-ered. 



Prof. Carl E. Lee spoke on the "Care of Milk." He 

 showed how easy milk can be contaminated by letting it stand 

 in the barn, by keeping it in a milk house that is located near a 

 hog lot or some other source of foul odors and which will get 

 into the milk. He explained how easily and frequently milk 

 is contaminated by unclean tinware and explained how tin- 

 ware and all utensils that come in contact with milk should be 

 cleaned. He explained what cleanliness in milking is and the 

 necessity of being clean and careful in all work about the cow 

 from which there might come some contamination to the milk. 

 He explained how bad bacteria can come from dust in the barn, 

 from the hair and dirt that might fall from the cow during 

 milking and the many other ways milk is contaminated. Prof. 

 Fraser had a lot of questions to answer. 



Prof. Fraser was at the Havana and Washington meetings. 

 At Highland Prof. Hayden discussed both the feeding ques- 

 tion and that of building up the herds. Secretary Caven gave 

 a short talk on the growing demand for highest quality in dairy 

 products. At Effingham Vice President J. P. Mason and Pro- 

 fessors Hayden and Lee were the speakers. Vice President 

 Mason presided at the Effingham meeting, the arranging for 

 which had been done by A. F. Jansen of Effingham. Mr. 



