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time but enough in summer. Some of the men that are sending 

 down there make a contract in the fall when the supply is short 

 and milk dealers will not live up to it in the summer time, the 

 only reason that I can see is because they are flooding the market 

 in summer. That is one of the things that the dairymen can 

 regulate by going at it right. 



Judge Lynch : Is it not a fact that most of these dairymen 

 and farmers that tell Mr. Jorgenson that they cannot afford to 

 run a winter dairy are telling him the truth from their stand- 

 point. The fact is they are pretending to be dairymen but are 

 not dairymen as they have not the right food or barns. 



Mr. Jorgenson : That is the proposition that I am up 

 against. I am afraid I have not made my point clear. They 

 are not prepared. They have not got the right kinds of feeds, 

 they do not understand how to take care of their cows, they do 

 not understand how to feed nor care for the milk and they are 

 not fixed for winter dairying. 



Mr. Austin : I have been dairying for seven or eight years. 

 At first I dairied in the summer time but I have come to the con- 

 clusion it is easier to do it in the winter time when I can control 

 the conditions ; in the summer there are flies. I have had a num- 

 ber of cows that went up to fifty or sixty pounds in the winter, 

 but I have never had but one that went above fifty in summer. 

 In the winter time I have a good flow of milk with silage. I 

 can make milk cheaper because I can control conditions and make 

 those cows comfortable. 



Mr. Jorgenson : What do you feed your cows ? 



Mr. Austin : Timothy hay and corn stalk. You mu/ have 

 a good ba n and you can build >.j:e for $10,000 or $1 7,000. 



Mr. Newman : That is the point. It would have gone just 

 as Mr. Jorgenson stated, which I do not think was a fair state- 

 ment to make and have go out from a Dairy Association. I 



