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COW, It would mean an immense amount of money to the farmers 

 of our states. Therefore my claim is, not what your cows are 

 domg, but get rid of the ones that are not paying. What's the 

 use of having one cow that is eating anywhere from $20 to $30 

 worth of feed in a year, and only giving you back $15 to $38 or 

 $^J worth of dairy products, when it is just as easy, if vou will 

 only start and get after it, to have a cow that will eat $35 worth 

 of feed and make $40 or $50 worth of butter or milk. It does not 

 take long to milk her. You got to do it only so often and what's 

 the use of working a scrub cow. 



I have collected from different sources some figures which 

 I am not gonig to read to you. We learn better through our 

 eyes than our ears. They represent bare facts, and if I was 

 going to give a-second text it would be, "Know the facts and 

 farts' '"'""^ ^' conclusions." But I want to give you just a few 



Individual record.-One of our experiment stations reported 

 these figures which are so nearly in accord with my facts, that 

 1 have simply taken some of them and put them up here as a sign 

 to go by. *= 



Two farmers o«ning 42 cows and delivering milk to a 

 creamery. The station sent a man to get these figures. Data 

 was kept throughout the year, and only take a few individual 

 records which .illustrate general conditions. And here is a little 

 rennark I want to make right here. There is an immense amount 

 of truth coming from experiment stations and agricultural papers, 

 that a very large amount of that truth produces harm because the 

 reader or the hearer does not use the necessary 40 or 50 per cent 

 of common sense in his application of that truth. When I give 

 you these figures, don't get mad and forget all the rest of it Take 

 the principle, the lesson which they teach, and adopt it to your- 



One of these 43 cows milked .353 days, made 7,900 pounds 

 ot milk, 350 pounds fat, and creamery paid $70. That allowed 

 *^3 for cost o keeping. In our state, I figure $30 as an average, 

 I have inquired of farmers. $30 margin on that cow 



