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profit; I know that every ounce of milk has been recorded on a milk 

 sheet. When I get home I don't have to ask questions; each individu- 

 al cow's record is there and I can at a glance see what they have done. 

 The first thing I do when I go in the barn will be to go to the milk record 

 of the Lady of Athens and she what she has been doing. Another thing 

 I am sure of, is that the hired man has not been making' love to the hired, 

 girl while I have been gone, because I have no hired man and no hired 

 girl and have no use for them. With our large herd we have just our 

 own family. The Cedar Hill Dairy and Agricultural College is self- 

 supporting. The faculty and) superintendent are as follows: Nathan 

 H. Cobb, farm machinery. Virgil C. Cobb, swine and poultry. Curtis A. 

 Cobb, herd and buildings. Ina A. and Emma A. Cobb, creameries. 

 Euclid M., Jr., and Grace L. Cobb, pet stock, andj Euclid N. Cobb, Sr., (bet- 

 ter known as Buff Jersey), general superintendent. I will tell you how 

 many children we have, in order that you can catch the number. We 

 have six girls and four boys. I have a standard I am working to. My 

 standard is a cow to the acre and a child to ten acres. I am pretty well 

 up to standard on cows. We got 80 Jerseys and only lack nine children 

 of being up to standard on land, and we hope to get them. 



I am to talk to you a little on ensilage. I brought the matter of the 

 family up, for without ensilage I could not hold my family at home. 

 Ensilage makes intensive farming and extensive employment. I have 

 been using ensilage for fifteen years, and if I had to go without ensilage 

 I would stop dairying at once. The two are inseparable, as far as I am 

 concerned. Last year Mr. Gurler told me he was about talked out on en- 

 silage. I never was so far gone but what I could always say a little 

 more about ensilage. I have seen ensilage grown, put up and fed in 

 Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, 

 Ilinois and Wisconsin. I have not merely passed by where this work 

 was being done, but been actually employed in directing the work; built 

 silos, filled them and fed the enlilage. 



To illustrate the value of ensilage on the dairy farm in Illinois, down 

 in Warren county, I will give you the figures and facts of our ensilage 



