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it. He fed his dairy 12 pounds shelled corn ground fine and 4 

 pounds oil meal mixed with fine cut clover hay; three feeds 16 

 pounds a day. His dairy is milking at the rate of 2j4 cows to 

 a can of milk and he is receiving a $1.00 a can this winter. I feed 

 my dairy 11 pounds of corn and cob ground together as fine as 

 I can. 2 pounds of bran and 2 pounds of oil meal which makes 

 20 pounds, and we are making 252 cows to a can. Ten pounds 

 of clover hay too, each. It shows a little figuring on farming. 

 After you deduct what he buys, and I deduct what I buy, I have 

 $8.70 more an acre for my clover and corn than he has for his. 

 You see it shows you can figure a little on farming. He gets 

 $64.72 I think an acre for his land, clover and all, and I get 

 $71.44 for mine. That ain't like some of them done with their 

 ensilage where they can raise enough to keep a cow 30 months,, 

 but it is a business that will hold water, even if a dairy business. 

 If you follow that up you can take an ordinary farm and farm it 

 carefully and keep it heavily stocked, and in a few years you can 

 double the product of that farm, but you want to be thorough. 

 That is one thing you have not learned. 



Don't work a farm . when it is wet. Don't haul manure 

 when wet, you want to work dry. Many farmers engaged in 

 the dairy business have never yet realized they have got to pro- 

 duce milk to make money in the dairy business. It don't take a 

 very large farm if well filled, and in a little while he will want to 

 cultivate more and have a large dairy and make a ton of milk a 

 day, and that will give you a handsome income. It will increase 

 the production of the farm from year to year, and that is better 

 than selling grain. I don't know of any better way to do it 

 than to increase your dairy to make money. 



I know of a farmer who paid from twelve to fourteen thou- 

 sand for his farm and he has paid for it and got as nice buildings 

 and all out of debt and money ahead. I asked him how he did it 

 and how he fed his cows. He fed eighteen pounds a day and two 

 pounds of oil meal and a shock of corn in the yard, and if I take 

 that shock of corn away the milk goes down. He is as success- 

 ful a farmer as I know of, and they all feed along that line. All 



