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are you going to select, the one that pays you three dollars for 

 every dollar's worth of feed or the boarder? It is up to the 

 farmers. 



Mr. Foss : In regard to the price I figured it for the butter 

 fat only, that was $1.40 for four pounds of butter. I was able 

 to feed high priced feed for I got three dollars for every dollar 

 I fed. 



Mr. Austin : I would like to ask Mr. Foss where he finds 

 a maket for these cows that don't pay? 



Mr. Foss : They go to the butcher. 



President : I would like to have Mr. Markkham give us 

 a little talk. 



Mr. Markham, Indiana. 



Mr. Markham : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemcr . — 

 I feel a little like I was in the position of the old darkey wtrn 

 was met one morning by a man who had been going over the 

 colored district of Atlanta and concluded he wanted some change 

 and he found he had nothing less than a ten dollar bill and he 

 wanted to get it changed and he met this old colored uncle and he 

 said, "Uncle, can you change $10.00?" He said, "No, sir, I 

 cannot change it but I thank you for the compliment." 



I am very much interested in this discussion, and aside 

 from the sacred precincts of the family circle there 'is no phce 

 I enjoy myself more than in a dairy meeting. There have been 

 most excellent points made by Mr. Foss and Mr. Newman in 

 regard to the quality and the handling of a dairy. The question 

 that Mr. Newman discussed is a very important one and a hard 

 one to handle. I have always been very much in favor of mural 

 persuasion, and as I listened to Mr. Foss' talk I was surprised 

 when I thought of the conditions of thirty and thirty-five years 

 ago compared with the present conditions. 



I remember when we used to have on a farm a few cows 

 and thought we were dairying, and we milked what was nec- 

 essary for family use and enough to provide ourselves with 



