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farms in a short time. They could carry as much stock as if 

 they had used the whole farm. 



Keep a farm book account. You want to realize the ex- 

 penses and labor, insurance and taxes on one side, and you want 

 to see the farm products sold on the other side balance and leave 

 a satisfactory profit. What we should do is to make one acre 

 produce what formerly two acres produced. It would not take 

 much to do that on some of Glover's figures on some of these 

 farms. 



About the grain question. Sell the grain and keep the 

 fodder in the field — that won't increase the production of your 

 farm. The corn should be all cut and we farmers wouldn't leave 

 corn crop in the field any more than hay or oats. It is good 

 feed and all stock like it. We can't use silo, because markets 

 won't take milk from a silo. We have the best market and we 

 have to do as they say. There is no better wholesale market than 

 we have got. Factories receive 100,000 and over of milk. They 

 do the straight thing by us and we feel like doing the straight 

 thing with them. 



I have made milk exclusively on the corn crop with the addi- 

 tion of bran. While it is not what we consider a good ration 

 for a cow, I use it. I want to show the difference between that 

 and selling the grain. Take 50 bushels of corn to the acre for 

 comparison. The farmer that sells his crop gets less in the end. 

 We feed our cows with threshed corn and the fodder furnishes 

 the roughage. The dairy was milked three cows to the can. We 

 fed those cows on an average of 20 pounds to a cow or 60 pounds 

 to produce a can of milk. We sell milk at $1.00 a can and this 

 acre of corn can be figured as producing 93 1-3 cans of milk. Put 

 bran meal with it at $19.00 a ton which is $73.33 for an acre of 

 corn turned into milk. As I say this may not be a good ration 

 for a dairy cow, but we can't but feel we got a fair price for the 

 corn so we can't be called soil robbers. 



I have a neighbor, his went 71>^ bushels to the acre and 

 mine went 73 and 74 to the acre. We fed differently this winter. 

 He don't like to buy bran and I don't like to run a dairy without 



