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really. And we sell a good deal of other stuff from the farm as 

 well. 



Q : — According to your figures here the farm would not pay 

 over five and a half per cent. 



: — It is low I never figured it. 

 : — That wouldn't reach over 5^ per cent. 

 : — It is like the lead pencil you spoke about. We are 

 farming 30 acres of land a year. When we went there five years 

 ago if we got 30 bushels corn to the acre we thought we were 

 doing well, now we are getting 75. 



Q: — How ripe is your sorghum before you cut it? 



A : — A week before fit to shock is our rule, when thoroughly 

 hard and formed ears in the field 3 three inches of dry husk on 

 the outside. 



Q : — How do you raise your calves, how long and what do 

 you feed ? 



A : — Six months. Whole milk two weeks and skim, six 

 months. 



Q: — We think down here we can't do without bran, and 

 our experience is, when we drop bran we drop in milk. I don't 

 care what you feed you drop in milk when we quit feeding bran ? 



A : — I can't understand that. Bran is a good feed if v;e 

 could only buy it, worth the money, but impossible to feed IP) 

 and 20 dollar bran to cows. 



A Member: — It costs here as much as 81) cents and $1.00 I 

 think. The cattle always have responded to me on oil meal. 



A Member: — Never been able to milk successfully here 

 without bran. 



Mr. Mason : — In regard to the per cent a man can make. 

 In our section the dairy farms are largely rented. There is a 

 banker there that rents a farm, 240 acres on halves. He furnish- 

 es the cattle, and the renter furnishes the tools and the team. 

 Each one pays half of all grain bought, and each one has half 

 of all stock raised, and his farm of 240 acres, after the taxes 

 and all expenses was paid, and the renter done all the work, the 

 banker received $2,400 for his share of the rent of the farm 



