THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 39 



Mr. Irish : Yes. Most farmers have no idea what good 

 seed it is. We raise strawberries ; then if we put on in the fall 

 some straw where there has been a little timothy we find it is 

 all right. 



Member: How much limestone do you apply? 



Mr. Irish : I do not know exactly. I have a neighbor 

 that has more than I have; he has rolling ground and he gets 

 better alfalfa than I do. I was reading in a New York journal 

 that some man near Philadelphia had failed to get alfalfa to 

 do well. It would come up and turn yellow and die. He .says 

 he decided to try limestone; he put six tons to the acre and it 

 grew beautifully. A neighbor of mine could not raise it, so he 

 finally put on sweet clover and raised a crop of sweet clover 

 and then raised alfalfa. I believe you can raise alfalfa all over 

 this country, if you go about it in the right way. 



President: A question was brought up a while ago that 

 was not answered satisfactorily. It was in regard to that test. I 

 will call on Mr. Jorgenson to answer that question : which is the 

 more profitable, a high or low test? 



Mr. Jorgenson : I look at it from this point of view. If 

 you understand the composition of milk, we know that ordi- 

 narily the solids of the milk do not increase as rapidly as fat, 

 a 6 per cent milk has not the solids in proportion that a 3 per 

 cent has. They will set a certain price on milk at 4 per cent, 

 the average milk will contain aout 4 per cent fat. Now, then, 

 you will find as the test goes down there are more solids in 

 proportion to the butter fat than as the test goes up, conse- 

 quently the milk is worth more to them. From a condenser's 

 standpoint they will get more salable condensed milk per pound 

 of butter fat from a lower than a higher testing milk, there- 

 fore in the lower testing milk the fat is worth more to them. 

 I figure that this is a fair basis to buy milk on, to add one cent 

 per point above 4 per cent and deduct 2c a point as it goes below 

 4 per cent. I am not familiar enough with the condensing busi- 



