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exact figures as to tlie net profits of a winter dairy, but was 
in favor of winter dairying. 
E. H. Seward had kept a winter dairy. Thought it more 
profitable than a summer dairy. Milk is richer m winter, 
with better yield and better product. Much less cheese is 
used in warm weather while fruit is being used We are 
certainly making a poor article of cheese when we skim grass 
milk. 
It costs more to make milk in winter than in summer, and 
we get more for it and have more time to take care ot it. 
Feed always pays. He believed it cost one-sixth more to 
make milk in winter than in summer. Hay must be cut for 
winter, while in summer the cow cuts her own hay. Ihe 
manure made by a winter dairy was very valuable, win e 
that made by a summer dairy was in a great measure lost. 
Prof Hall, of Sugar Grove, said he considered it a fact 
that we never throw away feed if the cow is a good amma . 
It takes a certain amount of feed to run the machine, and a 
feed beyond that amount gave a return. . If the animal was 
worth feeding, it would seem that the winter season woul 
yield the best profit. If butter is higher in wmtef, then make 
winter butter. He believed the same feed in winter would 
pay better than in summer, provided the animal was a good 
one and well kept. 
Dr R R- Stone thought we were destroying the cheese 
market Would rather have a skimmed cheese in December 
than a full cream in August; it would actually be a better 
cheese. The fact is, in winter no really good cheese are to be 
found. He feared the consumption would be materially less- 
ened. 
T S Huntley thought cows could be wintered cheaper 
than summered. It took so much land, and winter labor was 
muck cheaper. # 
J.R. McLean wanted to have some figures from a practical 
winter dairyman. 
John Keating thought that neither winter nor summer was 
