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Mr. Carpenter: I know of no better way than to fill her up full. She 

 stands and kicks and works, but she is full. She don't take the time to 

 eat when she is being worried to death by flies and is not making money 

 for you when hunting for food. She is just getting ready; s'he is begin- 

 ning to get ready for you, and the least energy she can expend to fill up. 

 is the greatest profit for you. That is the point I wish to make. 



Mr. Stewart: It is a fact that some of these farmers don't know the 

 large words you have given us. Take the farmers where you live, feed 

 their cows on their home farm and their care seem to be the most success- 

 ful and makes the most money, and while you have given us a nice paper 

 it goes over the head of nine-tenths of our farmers. 



A. You probably could not convince them we are not having facts 

 today you did not know of ten years ago. 



Mr. Newman: I want to set this audience right as not feedinig the 

 balanced ration as the gentleman gave us. Don't you feed bran on your 

 farm; isn't that full of protein. I don't want it to be understood that our 

 farmers don-'t use protein, as in bran. 



RAISING CALVES ON SEPARATOR SKIM MILK. 



BY F. W. BELDEN, KANEVILLE, ILL. 



Ladies and Gentlemen — I have no paper, but had a few references 

 made yesterday on skim milk, or factory separator milk, to raise calves. 



I take my milk to a creamery. I am also doing another thing which 

 will strike you dairymen as being a little out of line. I have a herd of 

 Short Horns and take the milk to the factory, and I am raising the calves 

 on that separator milk. 



You are a Wallace man? 



Weil, I want to' say I do not go into this carelessly. I do it in a 

 wholesale way, maybe. I make nearly, as much out of my calves' as the 



