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any more than the rest. I was down at the Iowa Experiment 

 Station and I said to the railroad official : *'How carr you afford 

 us transportation ?" He said : "We have got a selfish interest, 

 the more butter you produce the more freight we will get to 

 carry. We do not care for you fellows, it is the freight we are 

 after." So they are furnishing us trains to go over the country 

 and talk an hour at each station. Iowa appropriated $5,000 a 

 year to carry on the work of Iowa, so we have hired Mr. 

 VanPelt to go all over the state, free of charge, and talk dairy to 

 the farmers at any place he can. We are going to get through 

 with that $10,000 and then we expect that Legislature to give 

 us another $10,000. 



I think I have shown you what can be done by buying a 

 full bred sire, and you can do it here just as well as in Iowa, 

 Minnesota or any other state. If I had my choice I think I would 

 rather do it here than up there. You seem to have ideal con- 

 ditions, but of course I do not know what your soil is, but other 

 things being equal, I think this would be a grand place to run a 

 dairy. 



The next question for discussion is the feeding of the dairy 

 cow. We think many farmers are discouraged from entering the 

 dairy business by being told that it requires a lot of high priced 

 boughten concentrates. Such, however, is not true. Feeds for 

 the dairy cow can be wholly raised on the farm, or nearly so, so 

 that very little money need be spent in the purchase of feed to 

 make up a ration. Ensilage comes first as the best and most 

 economical feed of the dairy cow. From thirty pounds or more 

 per da}^ for small cows and forty to fifty pounds per day fof 

 large cows will be sufficient for part of the dairy ration. As far 

 south as Vandalia, where this dairy meeting is held, we believe 

 cow peas planted with the corn, so as to have a good stand and 

 all harvested and cut into the silo together would give an almost 

 ideal balanced ration. In addition to this all the clover hay, or 

 better still alfalfa hay, where it can be grown successfully, they 

 will eat. Corn ground fine mixed with oats or bran and a pound 

 or two of cotton seed meal will give you all nutriments needed, 

 to produce the largest amount of milk. 



