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balance the ration in the ratio of i to 6.5. With selected cows 

 and a ration as outlined above, with good care and surroundings, 

 regularity in all your work with the cows, and a good market 

 for the milk or the butter or cheese made, you will find the dairy 

 the most profitable line on the farm. I thank you, gentlemen. 



Chairman: Are there any particular questions you would 

 like to ask ? We have only a few moments for questions. 



Member: Have you had any experience with a milking 

 machine? 



Mr. JuHan: I was managing a dairy at one time and we 

 put in a milking machine. At the time I took the management 

 they were making a small quantity compared with the large 

 number of cows they had. I made considerable change and by 

 different methods I increased the quantity of milk. In two 

 weeks we made more than 50 per cent increase, and then the 

 company wanted to put in a machine, so I told them to send up 

 and get a man and let him put a machine in if they thought it 

 would give us better results. I feed those cows well. They got 

 this man down and he said he wanted to see those cows fed, and 

 after he watched me a day or two he said he could not make any 

 improvement, but that he would try the machine. I told him I 

 wanted him to take charge and I would turn over all the men to 

 him. He worked for thirty days ; the milk kept going down 

 badly. Then we decided to milk by hand. The mahine was an 

 old one. The teat cups had more suction than they ought to 

 have had and we would draw pure blood ; so then we worked by 

 hand a while; then decided to try the machine again, but it 

 worked worse than ever and then we worked by hand all winter. 



I have a neighbor who put in a B. & L. K. machine and 

 while he reports success, his dairy has never paid. He does 

 not run the farm himself ; he does it by proxy and while his men 

 milk he is in bed. He has a millionaire father who settles the 

 accounts. I had another, neighbor who had a milking machine, 

 but he did not seem to use it, so I said one day: "John, why 



