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town. There was a carpenter in our town, a good workman, but always 

 poor. He could never go to the stores without having to have things 

 charged. One time, as' he was going out of the store, the proprietor called 

 to him and said: "Anthony, I want to see you." Anthony stepped back 

 .and was heard to say: "Well, Mr. Miller, I haven't any money, but if you 

 have got work I am chuck fulliof that." It is the same with us; care dont 

 cost anything. A little elbow grease and a little time will work wonders. 

 If we have put ten pounds of feed in a cow to get certain results, it has 

 been my experience that if you f;>ec; that cow seven pounds of feed and 

 give her three minutes extra care } ou will get just as good results! and 

 much more satisfaction. 



The feeds at the Model Dairy were not provided for as well as they 

 could have been. That is, it had not been looked out for properly. Mr. 

 Converse got a gentleman to put up some silage for them the year pre- 

 vious. This silage was put up seventeen miles away from the grounds. 

 We could not get any one any nearer. They could have done it on the 

 exposition grounds if they had looked into it sooner, and saved a whole 

 lot of money. We had silage like most of you farmers have. We had 

 clover hay, although I found it difficult to find the kind I would liked to 

 have had. I made several trips to th.e hay market and found it fairly 

 good. Clover hay and silage constituted the roughage until we got green 

 food— green clover, oats, millet and fresh green corn. 



The supplementary feeds, the protein feeds. Let us see how we can 

 raise our protein feed next year. That is the hardest problem, to raise 

 protein feed, but] it can be raised. We can get it in clover hay. Clover 

 hay is a perfectly balanced ration, but it takes so much to make a cow 

 •do her best; she cannot digest it all. We must give concentrated feeds. 

 The carbohydrates, on the other hand we can raise to protection. I noticed 

 the corn fields as I came through this grain valley. In traveling through 

 the west one takes a sleeper at night and goes to ted, and lookes out in the 

 morning on corn fields, and then etill more corn fields. There is no 



