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doubt about 90 per cent water, and the cows would not give milk on that. 

 They had to feed the concentrated feeds at that time tho same as any 

 other time. Would it be profitable for us to do that? Is ft? I say it is. 

 If we have land that is tillable and we can raise on one acre grains 

 enough to feed two cows, it is profitable to feed them and feed them in 

 the barn and feed grain food. On the other hand, the dairyman who has 

 a lot of rough land, isn't it better to turn his cows out and let them pick 

 their feed? They do better, and why? I don't know why :t is, but I 

 will give you my reasons why 1 rhink it is. You turn the cows out into 

 the pastures and you will s j i that they go for just what -;h? wants. She 

 takes the best. She knows what she wants, and she takes the most 

 nutritious part of the feed only. Now, when we give it to them some of 

 it is good,, some of it not so much so but still they eat it, and they usually 

 eat it all up. It is not very nutritious on the whole, and for that reason 

 we have to feed them the more concentrated foods to ks j n up the flow of 

 milk. 



I have not done a great deal of soiling myself; just started a year 

 ago. But I mean to keep a great many more cows on the same number 

 of acres than I have done before, and have practically accomplished that 

 now. 



It depends a good deal on what you are going to do with your milk 

 after you get it, as to the kind of cow you should keep. Some want to 

 make butter, some send it to the cheese factory or the city customer; 

 it depends on what you are going to do with the milk as to the kind of 

 cattle you should keep. 



I have selected the four special dairy breeds, the Guernseys, Jerseys, 

 Ayrshires and Holsteins, and the amounts of estimated butter they have 

 made. We speak of estimated butter and it may not be quite plain to you 

 what we mean by that. To have kept and churned the cream separate from 

 all that milk, and keep it separated every day from 50 cows, ten different 

 breeds, and five cows in a breed would have been an amount of work 

 impossible to do with the means we had. There was one day in the week 



