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believed feed fed to good cows never thrown away; if green 

 feed can not be had in season, grain was the only substitute 

 he knew of; would always feed well. « 



T. Bishop said it was some time since a drought; there are 

 many ways to make milk in a dry time; could not make it 

 rain or make the grass grow. When milk is at four to six 

 cents per gallon, it makes but little ditference whether the 

 flow is kept up or not; many farmers kept too much stock 

 for their pastures. There were two sets of men in this con- 

 vention to please; supply and demand was the great thing- 

 after all; must make the product scarce; we make too much 

 — four to eight cents per gallon for milk! must not keep forty 

 cows with only pasture for twenty; do not take to factory ; it 

 takes one-fourth of the whole to have it worked up; it costs 

 no more to run a factory than a farm ; we must lose one-fourth 

 of all our milk on this factory plan; commission business in 

 in the cheese business was a bad business. Our milkmen's 

 wives, like blacksmiths' horses, go poorly shod; milkmen 

 use no milk in the family, they are too poor; all must be sold; 

 the men work from 4 a. m to 9 p. m.; no class of men work 

 harder on poorer pay. The fact is, the product must be made 

 scarcer; must buy less scalawag cows; we are no better off 

 than when we had no cows. 



S. N. Wright thought the question of feed was important; 

 his bread and butter came from his cows; did not think it a 

 good plan to pasture meadows; must not turn on pasture too 

 soon in spring; wait till there is plenty of grass, so as to 

 keep cows from roaming around the lots. 



C. C. BuELL did not think Mr. Bishop's argument good 

 practical economy; the object could not be accomplished by 

 making the product scarce, but by making it better, and by 

 raising it cheaper; one will grow rich while another will grow 

 poor, by merely producing cheaper. If we are to make our 

 product scarce, we had better quit at once. We must make 

 dairy products plenty, and learn to produce them cheaper; 

 if we can produce cheaper than other places using higher- 

 priced lands, then we will always have the advantage. 



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