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miles from Elgin. I get my Chicago paper as early in the 

 morning as many Chicago people do. I can go into town on an 

 oiled road, it is just like a boulevard — why should I move to 

 town? They tell about these old men that want to rest. I 

 don't know of anything worse for the active farmer than to 

 move to town; it is a good way to shorten his life. The harder 

 I work the better I feel. A man is a good deal like machinery, 

 he will rust out faster than he will wear out." 



O : In regard to that salt, do you do anything more than 

 keep salt before the cows all the time? 



A: I feed it to them. You want to teach them to relish 

 it; it is healthy for them. Give them what they will take and 

 eat up. You want to watch both ends of your cow. Keep them 

 in orood condition. 



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Q: Is there any possibility of cows overeating salt? 



A: Put it in the feed, keep everything in working order. 

 That is just what you want to do, to see how everything works. 

 A man who owns cattle should become a good cattle feeder. 

 You want to watch your cows. A cattle feeder can tell at a 

 glance w^hether they are feeding right or not, the way they go 

 at it. There are no two cows that will eat the same. We salt 

 the cows in the summer right along. 



Q: What have you found as the result of your summer 

 plan of keeping the cows in during the heat of the day and 

 letting them out at night? 



A : The barn is the place for the cow. If you plow^ed 

 all the farm you would not want any pasture. Farmers should 

 use the cement floor in the yard, you keep your cattle in nicer 

 condition and when you are hauling out the manure you are 

 hauling out clean manure. 



Now about this farming, I have been down in southern 

 Illinois a good deal and they have got to do something down 

 there more than you have. I heard Doctor Hopkins tell the 

 farmers: "You grew wheat until you couldn't grow it any 



