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Q: — Do you get enough mora milk to pay for the extra feed? 



Will a cow give you 18 pounds of milk on 10 pounds of grain? 



A: — There may be a way of getting something for nothing, but I 

 have never found how in the dairy business. 



Q: — If you get 18 pounds of milk from 10 pounds of grain, would 

 you be losing? 



A: — I have always fed that way; it has been my observation and ex- 

 perience, that the liberal feeders were the most successful. If you 

 could make 18 pounds of milk from 10 pounds of grain, you certain ly 

 would not be a loser. 



Q: — How do you keep up the fertility of your soil if you sell your 

 milk? 



A: — Careful farming, good crops, keeping the farm heavily stocked 

 will increase the fertility of tbe soil. 



Q: — How long do you keep the same cows on your farms? 



A: — Some of them we do not keep a gieat while; change perhaps 

 25 per cent of them a year. 



Q: — How long do you keep you good cows? 



A: — As long as there is a go'od profit. A cow will wear out the same 

 as a machine. 



Q: — The harder you work her the quicker she gives out? 



A: — I say when the profit gives out she gives out for me. 



Q: — Do you buy your cows? 



A: — Yes, sir; I let theother fellow raise them and I can buy them for 

 less value than I can raise them. 



Q: — You get beat sometimes? 



A: — One will get beat sometimes at almost anything. 



Q: — How do you like shock coin? 



A: — One feed a day will make the cows do better; it makes a 

 change and is relished by them. 



Q: — How many pounds of milk in a can? 



A:— 68. 



Q: — How many stalks to a hill did you get on that corn? 



