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brick floors to feed on. Brickbats and crushed in center and it is 

 easily kept clean. We use charcoal in our boilers and then the 

 charcoal burns and leaves some fine dust. Then we take out this 

 dust and just take that out and put a little in boxes in different 

 hog's floors with a little salt in it and it is a great thing to keep 

 them in condition. We find slops a very profitable feed if one 

 can get it right. Of course we control our own slops at the hotel 

 and can keep the glass and broken dishes out. If a man can get 

 that and feed it with skim milk and a little corn they can make 

 very nice profits on his hogs. 



O : — My experience about the floors is best to feed hogs in ? 



A : — Yes sir. 



O : — You are feeding your cows the same in 1903 as 1902 ? 



A: — We didn't know; we just feed some bran and shipped 

 stuff and hominy and fed what they would clean up. 



O : — You count that increase partly due to weeding out a 

 lot of poor cows? 



A : — Yes sir, weeding out and more careful mixing of the 

 feeds. The weeding out and being careful in replacing those cows 

 with the best cows we could find put up that increase. Just the 

 scales and test got us started on it. 



AMONG THE CREAMERIES OF ILLINOIS. 



My Mr. Carl E. Lee, Elgin, III. 



By the President : — Mr. Lee is a young man whom our ex- 

 perimental station fellows found up in Iowa. We don't care 

 where they come from so we go to otlier States and get some of 

 their good men. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I am glad to be here this morning. I am somewhat a 

 stranger to the Illinois people. I came over to this state in Sep- 



