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was receiving milk that tested over 5 per cent and paying just 

 as high a price for the 1.4 per cent as for the 5 per cent milk. 

 The farmer was beating him. That is the point and that is the 

 way we find these things. Strange to say that same man that 

 I spoke of in regard to this milk was the same man that caused 

 the loss of the contract of the other dairyman, a terrible trouble 

 and a serious loss to the dealers in St. Louis. 



By the President: — Prof. Erf has to go on this 2:59 train 

 and we will have to pass on to the next subject. 



SELECTION OF A DAIRY COW. 



By Prof. Oscar Erf, Kansas. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. 



It pleases me very much to have the opportunity to be with 

 you again this year. I have come a long way, but I assure you 

 that I enjoyed having this privilege. 



When your vSecretary handed me this kind invitation to come 

 down here, I was at a loss to know what to choose for a subject 

 for this convention. 



As probably some of you know, I am mostly interested on 

 the manufacturing side, and since the manufacturing side is not 

 of such importance in this part of your state, I thought I would 

 select a subject on the producers' side. 



Kansiis conditions are so different from Illinois conditions. 

 Kansas has universally adopted the hand separator system. It 

 is a system I might say a step toward the advanced dairying. I 

 assure you that it is a marked step, for any one that intends to 

 retard the progress of the hand separator system might as well 

 bump his head against a brick wall. It is bound to come, and it 

 will come. 



