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silage, not extremely sour. Put up a good silo, and then feed 

 silage every day in the winter. 



Have your cows freshen in the fall, cows well fed and with 

 good care will give more pounds of milk than if freshened in the 

 spring. Your cows will give the most milk when milk is the 

 highest. You can feed those cows in winter on silage just as 

 cheaply as you can feed them in the pasture in summer. You 

 will find your hundred pounds of milk is worth more in winter 

 than in summer, then again it takes the most time to milk, and 

 then is when you have the most time. Then again next summer 

 when you are the busiest, when the flies are the wurst, when the 

 product is cheapest, then your cows are dry. 



You will find another thing, we have some difficulty in get- 

 ting all the hired help we need on the* farm, men \have said they 

 could not get the help. Before we were in the dairying business 

 we hired men to work six or eight months, then they went some- 

 where else and promised to come back but they never did, now 

 we keep him the year around. You can do it if you have a good 

 herd and milk them in winter. If you have a good man keep 

 him there just as long as he will stay. There is help enough this 

 year, the fellow in the city is wondering how he can keep his 

 family. The superintendent in the district said : *'I can send you 

 a hundred men in forty-eight hours; I never saw a time when 

 there were so many that wanted to go onto the farm." 



Mr. James Hill says that in 191 7 we will be importers in- 

 stead of exporters. We are going to see the greatest change in 

 the next ten years that we have ever seen in any ten years. Get 

 a good cow, then feed her regularly, feed her a variety of food 

 and keep things clean about her, then you will be giving her a fair 

 chance. There are a lot of cows who are not to blame. They 

 have never been fed sufficient to enable them to make a profit. 

 They do not feed her enough and do not give her the right kind 

 of feed and do not keep her warm and healthy and comfortable. 



This is wrong. I have talked this for the last ten years but 

 I could go on and talk it for the next ten years, and then there 

 could be a lot said about it. To get a cow to do her best work, 

 she must be healthy, keep her comfortable, keep her warm. 



