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gether and if you start in with a poor cow you will be disap- 

 pointed, you have got to have a good cow. It is just about as 

 much in the man as the cow, the average cow will give good re- 

 sults with a good dairyman, while a comparatively good cow 

 may fail because of a poor dairyman. 



All the time you are running a dairy farm you are build- 

 ing up your soil, and you take the silo, and your alfalfa, and a 

 good cow and you have got a combination that is hard to beat, 

 there isn't any line of farming equal to that, but you have got 

 to have the right kind. You take the silo, you extend nearly 

 the equivalent of June pasture throughout the year and that is 

 the most economical way of handling the corn crop, is through 

 the silo. On these high-priced lands the pasture is the dearest 

 feed you have got. You can grow more crops on a field than 

 you will get on the average pasture and your cattle will do bet- 

 ter. Where you have the silo and the animal has her full feed 

 three times a day, where she eats plenty and drinks plenty and 

 lies dow^n in comfort is what produces, and that is how to farm 

 on high-priced land. 



We want to encourage these young men to stick to farm- 

 ing, learn how to farm and keep at it, and above all things he 

 wants to build up a character — that is the greatest asset a man 

 can have in the world, it ought to be as good as his bond. He 

 has got the advantage of us men who started years ago, 

 knows how to feed the balanced ration for his cows and 

 for his soil and get a large crop yield, and I want to speak 

 about these county men we have. Last winter I was up in an 

 institution in Warren County and they were talking' about get- 

 ting a soil expert and they wanted me to speak of it and an old, 

 gray-headed man sat on the front seat and he said : ''Do you 

 think after a man has farmed for forty years anybody can tell 

 him anything about growing corn?" There is no man so far 

 gone as the man who thinks he knows it all. 



