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By the president: — Now .gentlemen, you are privileged to ask any 

 questions you wish. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Stewart: — You have given us a good explanation of milk cows, 

 now I would like to ask you, if you are going to turn your cows into beef, 

 would you take Jerseys or Guernseys or Holsteins or Ayreshires, what 

 cows would you take; you know it is the end of all cows. 



A: — Death is the end of all cows. You know the little Jersey cows 

 are not wanted in the Chicago stock yards. You have made profit enough 

 out of that little cow, you ought to be able to give her a decent burial 

 at the end of her usefulness; she has made more money for you each year 

 than the other cows will bring when your butcher them. But if you have 

 cows that you want to keep a certain length of time, they are the Red 

 Polleds, the Brown Swiss and the Shorthorns, all of which answer better 

 for the dual purpose cow. When you get ready to turn them into beef, 

 they will do it more profitably. 



Mr. Stewart: — In my experience I have fouEd that any cow will make 

 nicer beef than the Jerseys, they don't make nice beef. If you are go- 

 ing to keep a cow for ten years, that's different, but the average life of a 

 cow is a very short number of years, and I find the Jerseys are not much 

 longer lived than the other cows, but beef is the end and that ought to 

 be counted in. 



Mr. Nowlan: — I was at the Pan-American for some time, and I would 

 like to ask him if the method used there in getting the amount of butter, 

 the estimated amount of butter, is the practical method for the average 

 farmer to use. Can he afford to put that much time into it. Hadn't we 

 better assimilate the whole matter, weigh each cow's milk every night 

 a certain amount, and then one week out of a month take a composite 

 test. It seems to me if we try to* follow out their method it will take more 

 time than we can give? 



