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wanted to see the milk weighed. He said it was equal to a 

 baseball sheet. My boy and even my daughter is interested. We 

 hear lectures on keeping a girl or a boy on a farm. Judge Lynch 

 said, "Anything that you are interested in is not drudgery, but 

 anything you are not interested in is." Get your boy or girl in- 

 terested in something, domestic science or anything else, then 

 you won't worry that they won't stay on the farm; that is the 

 way to keep the boy or girl at home. 



I will be glad to answer any questions that I can. 



Mr. Jorgenson : I would like to ask how much of an in- 

 crease have you had from your cows in the time you have tested 

 and how much more have you made this last year than you did 

 the year before you tested your cows? 



Mr. Irish : I don't really know. I will say this : I picked 

 out one cow, and she was an aged one, and when I began she 

 was giving 26 pounds of butter fat, I took the hardest month 

 in the year ; then I picked out last December and she gave forty- 

 six pounds, and that is in line with my others. She made an 

 increase of twenty pounds of butter fat; this was almost double, 

 and she was an old cow, too. 



Mr. Jorgenson : By weighing and testing and proper feed- 

 ing can you increase the amount of butter fat? 



Mr. Irish : Certainly you can. Last year I had 7,000 

 pounds of milk, 298 pounds of butter fat; in 191 1, 7,000 pounds 

 of milk and 275 pounds of butter fat. I am sure that I have, 

 nearly doubled my production by this method of developing 

 myself as much as I have the cow; and what is better I have 

 developed my son. 



I came to Effingham six years ago, the next month I went 

 to Olney, and I got interested there and I got full then. My 

 wife said I was a crank; when my boy came from school she 

 said he was a bigger crank than his father. I am glad I am a 

 crank. Another thing that is absolutely essential is regularity. 



