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believed feed fed to good cows never thrown away; if green 
feed can not be bad in season, grain was the only substitute 
he knew of; would always feed well. 
T. Bishop said it was some time since a drought; there are 
many ways to make milk in a dry time; could not make it 
rain or make the grass grow. When milk is at four to six 
cents per gallon, it makes but little difference whether the 
flow is kept up or not; many farmers kept too much stock 
for their pastures. There were two sets of men in this con¬ 
vention to please; supply and demand was the great thing 
after all; must make the product scarce; we make too much 
four to eight cents per gallon for milk! must not keep forty 
cows with only pasture for twenty; do not take to factory; it 
takes one-fourth of the whole to have it worked up; it costs 
no more to run a factory than a farm; we must lose one-fourth 
of all our milk on this factory plan; commission business in 
in the cheese business was a bad business. Our milkmen’s 
wives, like blacksmiths’ horses, go poorly shod; milkmen 
use no milk in the family, they are too poor; all must be sold; 
the men work from 4 a. m to 9 p. m.; no class of men work 
harder on poorer pay. The fact is, the product must be made 
scarcer; must buy less scalawag cows; we are no better off 
than when we had no cbws. 
S. ~N. Wright thought the question of feed was important; 
his bread and butter came from his cows; did not think it a 
good plan to pasture meadows; must not turn on pasture too 
soon in spring; wait till there is plenty of grass, so as to 
keep cows from roaming around the lots. 
C. C. Buell did not think Mr. Bishop’s argument good 
practical economy; the object could not be accomplished by 
making, the product scarce, but by making it better, and by 
raising it cheaper; one will grow rich while another will grow 
poor, by merely producing cheaper. If we are to make our 
product scarce, we had better quit at once. We must make 
dairy products plenty, and learn to produce them cheaper; 
if we can produce cheaper than other places using higher- 
priced lands, then we will always have the advantage. 
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