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60 cows and he thought he could make Winter milk 
cheaper than Summer milk. He feeds corn meal three 
times per day, with corn stalks at noon. To the cows giv¬ 
ing milk he fed a six-quart pan of meal each time, and 
watered all once per day. 
Hon. Lawrence had never kept an exact account of 
w hat his feed cost him. His dairy was half Short-horns. 
One-half of them come in in March, and the other half in 
October. He had adopted the plan of feeding his dry 
cows just as much meal in the Winter as he did those giv¬ 
ing milk, and he found that it paid. He raises calves to 
supply his dairy. He divides his cows and thought it 
profitable. In feeding his cows he found that when hay 
was $6 per ton he could not afford to feed it, and changed 
to wheat straw. When he first tried wheat straw it was a 
great surprise to him to find that it increased the flow of 
milk. In less than 36 hours after he commenced it he 
noticed a change. Late years he took more pains to fill 
his barns with good clean wheat and oat straw when hay 
was scarce, and fed it with good results. In grain feeding 
he first gives his cows 4 quarts of bran and shorts mixed 
say two parts bran and one part shorts; th«&i he gives next 
time one quart of meal made from equal parts of corn and 
oats. In this way he keeps his animals always in good 
order. 
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R. M. Patrick thought every farmer should know just 
what his feed cost him. There was a considerable difference 
between feeding dairy cows and feeding Short-horn stock as 
described by Mr. Lawrence. In the one case you fed for 
milk and in the other for beef. He reiterated that it was 
a fact that every man could and should know just what it 
cost him to produce his milk. Three years ago it cost 75 
