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and substance from the soil which should have been given to the 

 grain. 



Another point, the same cow that stands out of doors con- 

 sumes more feed and gives you less milk than one that is kept in 

 a comfortable shelter. You could soon pay for the barn with 

 the increase of milk and the saving of grain you would have to 

 feed, and in the building up of your land, while the wife has a 

 better income from the larger amount of butter she would have 

 to sell. I read an article in one of the dairy papers in December 

 saying it was estimated that one cow would furnish you $l:«.00 

 worth of fertilizer each year. Now she ought to make a pound 

 of butter a day for at least ten months. We will say 240 pounds 

 as an average of what most farmers' cows make. If sold at 25 

 cents per pound, plus the $19.00, will it not pay the farmer? 

 Besides, he has the calf and the milk. 



I have noticed many times that the man who makes a success 

 in farming is the man wdio keeps cows and makes butter or sells 

 milk, who raises stock and who keeps his barn lots clean, and his 

 fields covered with his fertilizer, not put on just when he should 

 be putting in his oats, but put there every day during the fall 

 and winter when the land can be absorbing the plant food. The 

 time has come when we have to take advantage of every practi- 

 cal method to succeed on the farm. 



The difficulty of getting good help and to farm as we would 

 like to has been against us, but I believe the time is not far away 

 when help will be plentiful, and I feel confident that with the 

 growing interest of all classes that the dairy interest will be in- 

 creased. 



We should strive to increase our product this year as we have 

 our World's Fair, and the demand will be very large, and it 

 should be our aim to make not only more, but better, butter. To 

 do so all our farmers must help us and by so doing they will help 

 in supplying the two most needed articles of food, butter and milk. 



I was very much gratified to see the increase of interest 

 taken in our countv this winter at our Farmers' Institute in the 



