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and cheapest ration. If you ship your milk or have it made 

 up at the factory, make it the very best by proper care. 



If your wife is willing to devote the time to butter-making 

 that she ought to spend in caring for her other household 

 duties, don't let her run the old tin pan and dash churn, but 

 see that she is supplied with the best dairy literature and 

 implements. 



Our Secretary has prepared a program full of good things, 

 and if the papers are followed by free discussion, we shall 

 be well paid for coming, and you, my friends, for receiving us 

 so cordiallv. 



^^WHAT COWS SHALL WE MILK?"— COST OF PRODUC- 

 TION. 



PROF. T. L. HAECKER, ST. ANTHONY PARK, MINN. 



By way of preface I wish to state that during the past 

 eighteen years I have been engaged in dairy work, having 

 from twenty-five to fifty cows, a large portion of the time 

 handling only thoroughbreds and raising dairy calves. During 

 the last six 3^ears I have been engaged in experimental work 

 and in dairy instruction. It is rather a peculiar thing the 

 way that I happened to start out and change my work from 

 farming to instruction work. My farm w^as ten miles east 

 of Madison, Wis. One day along toward evening, in the 

 month of March, while I was sawing out poplar slabs for a 

 fence, the then Governor of Wisconsin sent a messenger over 

 to tell me that he wanted to see me. We had been neigh- 

 bors, when I was a boy, on adjoining farms; father had a lot 

 of boys and our neighbor had none; so he often found it 

 convenient to borrow one of us to help him in his farm work, 

 and now and then it would fall to my lot to work for him. 

 When I went to see him he said : "I find things badly mixed 

 up in the office, and I want somebody to come and put the 

 papers and things in. order and systematize the work. I re- 

 member w^hen you used to help me on the farm you too'c 



