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very largely increased home consumption of cheese and the exten¬ 
sive and increasing foreign demand, and further, when we remem¬ 
ber that the increase of dairy stock in the United States (large as 
it has been in the last fifteen years) has been only a little more than 
the increase of population, and when we remember further, that we 
cannot extend the dairy ad libitum , as the best dairy section is 
but small compared with the whole country; I say when we re¬ 
member these facts, we might well enquire, where is the supply 
coming from, than where silall we find a market? 
Mr. Wood. I wish to ask what breeds of cattle will pay best for 
dairying. 
Mr. Favill. The breed that will “ pan out 11 best, of course is 
the best breed, as the Californian said of his gold mine. 
Mr. Bentox. You spoke of the introduction of cheese and its 
becoming an article of general use and being more healthy than 
pork. Tell us at what price per pound one would be warranted in 
purchasing it to take the place of pork. 
Mr. Favill. I should say that pork is not fit to eat at all and 
good cheese is. 
Question. In regard to the keeping of cows; you meant one 
acre of corn was sufficient for each cow, but you failed to tell us 
whether that corn should be sown broadcast or planted four feet 
apart, or how. 
Mr. Favill. 1 was speaking of corn planted just as we would 
plant it to raise a crop, four feet apart and about four grains in a 
hill, and then one acre will keep a cow all the year. 
Question. Would ib benefit your stalks much to steam them? 
Mr. Favill. Yes. I have tried it and it improves them very 
much where you have suitable buildings and can do it. To run a 
steamer you must have some place where it will not freeze. Where 
you have suitable buildings it pays richly to steam. Your cows 
will eat ever} r particle, they won’t leave a scrap of it. One of my 
neighbors cuts his stalks and wets them and throws on a little bran 
or meal, but they are very much better to steam them. 
Now about the plan of sowing your corn. I have experimented 
about eight years, and I have got the best results when I was rais¬ 
ing simply for the fodder, by just double-marking the ground and 
planting two feet each way, about four kernels to the hill, then 
take the wings off the cultivator and cultivate it until it begins to 
