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ing his product at the same place I did mine, offered me a cow. 

 I looked at her and she looked like a good cow, so I bought her 

 After I had bought the cow I asked, "What is the matter with 

 the cow that you wanted to sell her?" There is no use in ask- 

 ing before you buy, but if you ask afterwards you may find out. 

 I asked this man and he said : "Well, she does not give milk 

 enough." He had five other cows and he said this was the 

 poorest one. I took her home and put her in my barn. The 

 temperature in my barn never gets down to freezing; I have a 

 covered barn yard and the cows never get out from the time they 

 go in in the fall until they get out in the spring. She freshened 

 Oct. 8 and one year from that day I had 14,000 pounds of milk, 

 $40 from that one cow. That was the best cow that man owned. 

 What was the reason he did not know it? He turned her out 

 in the morning and, instead of covering her ribs with fat to keep 

 ■out the cold, she stood there and shivered and when she was put 

 under the right conditions she was one of the best cows ever 

 in the state of Michigan and yielded a profit like that. 



Just these three things let me say again. What will make 

 forty cows give milk will make one cow give milk. This ap- 

 plies to the one cow dairyman as much as to the forty cow dairy- 

 man. When you want a cow, get a good cow and feed her all 

 she can eat. There is no use in keepiug just a cow. It takes 

 $18 or $20 to keep her just a cow and after you pay $20 to run 

 that machinery you must make that machinery run to its maxi- 

 mum capacity, and let me say to you today there is no line of 

 live stock husbandry in the state of Michigan that one day and 

 another will pay as good and even a profit as will a dairy cow. 



THE BY-PRODUCTS OF MILK. 



Paper read by D. O. Henry Nowak, of Chicago, before the 

 Milk Producers' Institute, January 23rd, 1906, on "The By- 

 products of Milk : 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Having been requested by the Secretary of this honorable 



