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tion is a good idea it will never take the place of the abundant 

 ration. 



An essential part of the equipment on every successful dairy 

 farm is a sprayer. Men who grow fruit must spray their fruit 

 trees once or twice a year. If we have adopted on our farms 

 one phase superior to all equipment, it is the sprayer. Once a 

 day a man will take a barrel sprayer and spray the floors, walls, 

 gutters and the hind parts of cows. This, in addition to the 

 sunshine and light admitted by windows and fresh air brought 

 in through ventilators eliminates all fear of disease. 



I have heard intelligent men say they preferred certain 

 breeds of cows because they were large and therefore healthy. 

 If only big fellows were healthy, some of you big fat fellows 

 would live forever and I would have been dead long ago. 

 (Laughter). If you will keep your animals clean and your 

 barns free from germs, there would be little trouble from dis- 

 eases. The thing to do is to keep the germs of diseases out of 

 your barn and I am of the opinion that the sprayer and the dis- 

 infecting solution are very essential parts of your equipment for 

 that purpose. 



There is only one way to know how much you should feed; 

 any cow will tell you what kind of feed she w^ants and how much, 

 if you understand her language. 



A set of scales is a very important part of dairy farm 

 equipment. If we have not the time to attend to our business, 

 we cannot expect to make a profit out of the dairy business. 



The equipment that makes it possible to tell when and how 

 much to feed when properly used is merely necessary business 

 equipment. If you will start weighing your cow's ration each 

 day, you will never quit. When corn and oats and other grain 

 feedstuffs are costing you two cents a pound you cannot expect 

 to waste them like you did in the past, and make a profit in the 

 dairy business. We do not overfeed our cows for the purpose 

 of wasting grains, or underfeed them for the purpose of being 

 stingy, we do it because we have never stopped to think that we 

 are so doing. I absolutely could not answer the question as to 

 how much feed your cows ought to have or what kind, except in 

 terms of pounds, and I don't know of anybody else that could. 

 All grain fed and milk returned should be weighed." (Ap- 

 plause.) 



