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pounds of milk in winter for from 36 to 40 cents. His 
meal he fed in two messes. He let his cows remain out of 
the barn all day when the weather was not too cold. He 
fed on an average about 15 pounds of hay to each cow- 
The way he figured it, each cow’s feed cost nine cents per 
day and her milk was worth 35 cents per day, so that each 
cow cleared him about $70 per year. He quit feeding oats, 
because they were too high. 
McLean : Said he was glad to learn the secret of 
making money in the dairy business, nevertheless he 
thought it poor policy to be telling these secrets; every 
body will get them, then the profit is gone. But he could 
tell a better thing than Bartholemew. At Elgin they fed 
their cows sweet corn, costing them not more than 12 cents 
per day for each cow. This was cheaper than Bartholemew 
could steal the bran and draw it home. This idea of feed¬ 
ing bran he didn’t like. It didn’t make good milk, but 
sweet corn increased the flow and improved the quality of 
milk. His farm contained 100 acres and he kept on there 
40 head of stock. (He objected to telling how wealthy he 
was but supposed it was necessary in this case.) He raises 
about 15 acres of sweet corn, sells the corn and feeds the 
stalks and nubbins to his stock. 
C. H. Larkin : (Called upon) said he commenced 
feeding sweet corn stalks to his cattle in the summer. 
His stock is put on the pasture about the first of May, and 
for some time after that they are not fed anything. In the 
summer he fed a very little bran, just enough to get his 
cows to go into the barn. Later in the summer he feeds a 
little cut corn which he sows for this purpose, and then, 
after furnishing the Packing company with his sweet corn, 
he begins feeding stalks and what there may be on them, 
