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shipping five years I was told that I shipped in better milk than 

 ever before. He did not know I had a silo. 



I will say here that Mr. Pratt is a farmer on a farm of 

 2,000 acres ; this is run with hired help and I take it that this is 

 a pretty good statement to make. The net profit after deducting 

 out 5 per cent is $1,977.00. There are four brothers, they have 

 the reputation of doing good business, I was talking with one 

 of them the other day, he said he milked 65 cows, getting 40 

 cans of milk, another was milking 35 cows and getting 18 cans 

 of milk, and he further went on to say they had done that for 

 three months. Now, gentlemen, that is doing business. Those 

 Foley boys all own farms. 



Chairman : I do not want to take any credit away from the 

 Elgin business, but I want to tell how I went into a store on the 

 corner. I met the manager there, I did not stop to get this 

 man's name. There was a man that came in and said he was 

 milking eleven cows; he presented a check for $139.64. He was 

 asked what it was for, he said it was his milk check for milking 

 cows for the month of December. Just taking that month of 

 December as an average, I do not know whether that man has a 

 fresh herd or not, that would bring him on an average $152.33 

 per cow. He is shipping his milk to St. Louis so there are some 

 good cows in this neighborhood. 



Mr. Jensen : Did you ever have any experience in feeding 

 beet sugar? 



Mr. Mason : Very little. 



Mr. James: Have you any experience in beet pulp? It is 

 not considered a very good feed. 



Mr. Wilkins : A man the second door from me a year ago 

 last fall bought a car load of beet pulp and tried to introduce it 

 at Marengo. He sold a little but had a good deal left on his 

 hands. I notice he is not feeding any this year. 



Mr. Spies : With regard to rye, has Mr. Mason had any 

 experience in making silage of rye? I am contemplating do- 

 ing that. 



