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per cow than the average expense of keeping a cow in that com- 

 munity. The report don't tell what line of farming they were in 

 to produce the wherewithal to feed those cows, but I question if 

 the calves made enough more money to make up the loss in the 

 butter fat. 



I brought these figures before you to suggest to you, "are 

 all my cows paying for themselves, what ought a good cow to 

 do." My father visited me last week, and I don't take a back 

 seat for any one's opinion compared with his. 



They have milked 959 different cows for a whole year. The 

 milking of every cow is weighed at every milking. When I tell 

 you the number of pounds of milk they have produced, it is the 

 scales. After the milk is weighed at the barn, it goes into the 

 dairy room and is bottled, and the milk is sold and the bottled 

 milk must accord with the figures at the different barns. There 

 is no room for humbug. 



Average 959 cows, 5,862 pounds of milk, test a little over 

 5 per cent. Figuring that out gives us 300 pounds butter fat. 

 Those are grade cows bought in the stock yards near one of our 

 eastern cities. Most of them have a little Jersey blood. 



The point I want to make, the cows are selected according to 

 dairy type. They are fed according to business principles. They 

 are milked in order to know what they are doing. They get rid 

 of the cow 4:hat doesn't pay. There are in that lot a good many 

 that have made 1,185 pounds in the year, another one made 1,400 

 another 1,900 pounds, and some running on up as high as 9,500 

 pounds a piece. 



I speak of this to show what can be done with good business 

 head and judgment in studying your cows. I am not advocating 

 that you weigh the milk every day, but I do advocate that you 

 know what your cow is doing. I believe there is no man who is 

 keeping two cows or more that can't afford to weigh the milk of 

 every cow one night and one morning each month in the year. 



Experimental Station figures have shown us that the result 

 of weighing the milk one night and morning every month in the 

 year multiplying that by the number of days in the month and 



