THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 53 



Mr. Newman: It takes less time after you are trained? 



Mr. Foss : It does not take longer to handle the cream 

 but it takes longer to wash your churn, separator, etc. 



Mr. Newman: Do you not have to watch it carefully? 



Mr. Foss : If you do not watch it carefully you would 

 lose enough butter fat to more than three times pay for the extra 

 labor and you would lose on the quality, too. The amount of 

 labor, if you put out a good article, is not so much more as you 

 would think. This applies to any crop you have on your farm. 

 To illustrate this, I had one of the best stands of corn I ever had 

 and I tested it every year. When we were shredding the corn 

 I found that I had better corn than my neighbors, and they 

 said : Just see the work I had been to in testing it. But I felt 

 the better quality of corn I had more than paid me for the 

 extra amount of labor and I had the pleasure of doing good 

 work. 



Mr. Mason : How much difference is there between your 

 poorest and best cow in the yield of butter fat? 



Mr. Foss : The poorest cow that I had last year made me 

 260 pounds of butter fat and the best made me 422 pounds. 

 Just as you weed out the poorer cows the number of pounds 

 per cow has been going up gradually. 



Mr. Austin: Did the poorer cows consume less than the 

 good cows? 



Mr. Foss : A little, not much, just about the same amount 

 of roughage. The cows that give the largest amount of butter 

 fat do it most economically, the average return two dollars for 

 every dollar they eat up. I had one cow last winter that made 

 70c worth of butter every day on a cost of 23c feed; two of 

 my cows did that but the average is about two dollars to every 

 dollar of feed. The lowest would not produce more than a 



