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certain feed barn. Terms, cash or 60 days at 7 per cent. We 

 go there and find about twenty cows tied up in good warm 

 stalls. They have been nicely groomed, well fed, salted and 

 watered. To the uninitiated, one would think the owner was 

 fortunate, indeed, to run onto so many good cows. For just 

 see those nice, large, full udders, any one of which looks as 

 though it contained at least two pailsful of milk! And that 

 paunch! Why, she must be a good feeder! 



Over in another stall are a lot of calves, with muzzles 

 on, so they can't tell how long they have gone without milk. 

 But their little, hollow sides tell the tale. 



You put up |40 or |50 for the cow and calf. Three or 

 four days bring you face to face with the normal cow, half 

 a pail of milk and very likely a calf which the cow refuses 

 to own, as hers was too old and large to look well with a fresh 

 milker. 



So, my friends, instead of being duped in this way, fix up 

 a good comfortable place and raise from a good sire and your 

 own best cows, the promising heifer calves, and in a very few 

 years you will have secured a fine dairy herd. 



Furthermore, you will have demonstrated satisfactorily to 

 yourself and your less progressive neighbors, that in dairying 

 as well in other branches of farming, the progressive man is 

 the one who is constantly striving to battle with competition 

 and decreasing prices by intelligently decreasing expenses, 

 thus increasing the income! Therefore, let us raise our own 

 heifer calves! 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Judd (continuing): My system may differ a little 

 from Prof. Haecker's, but as long as we have had equally 

 good results, the question for you to determine is, which of 

 the systems applies best to you. I have had good results with 

 feeding grain ; I have had no trouble in their running to fat. 



A Member: I have had trouble in their running too poor, 

 if I didn't. 



Mr. Judd. No doubt his flax seed meal has a great deal 

 more strength in it than there is in oil cake meal. But I pre- 

 fer the latter, because you never having this difficulty about 



