State Dairy Association. 



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GAIN OF 83 POUNDS BUTTER FAT PER COW IN TWO YEARS. 



These figures furnish a very interesting study. It is seen that 

 the 14 cows the first year averaged, 5,800 pounds of milk contain- 

 ing 224 pounds of butter fat; that the 12 cows the second year 

 averaged 7,105 pounds of milk with 260 pounds of butter fat; and 

 that the 14 cows the third year (1906) averaged 8,057 pounds of 

 milk and 307 pounds of butter fat per cow. 



The greatest fact apparent at first sight is an average gain of 

 36 pounds of butter fat per cow the second year, and another gain 

 of 47 pounds of butter fat per cow the third year — a total gain of 

 83 pounds per cow for the two years. This means a gain of 97 

 pounds of butter per cow in the year's production, which at the 

 average price he has received amounts to about $24.25. This gain 

 is much more than the whole profit from the average dairy cow in 

 Illinois. The above increase is known from an accurate record of 

 the weight and test of the milk for a week at a time every nine 

 weeks throughout the year. 



TIED TO THE WRONG COW 



THE USE OF THE SCALE 

 ANO TEST INEVITABLY LEAD 

 TO THE SELECTION OF HIGH 

 PRODUCING COWS - BETTER 

 HOMES, EDUCATION. MORE 

 COMFORTS. 



THE PROFITLESS COW 



Americans don't take kindly to the idea of chains and slavery, 

 but many a dairyman has unconsciously drifted into the condition 

 of the man in the picture. He is not chained to a fellow-prisoner 

 or to a post, but to a common (altogether too common) brute — to 

 a worthless, willful cow. 



He doesn't know where he is going ; he simply follows the cow. 

 That's how he got tied up to this creature ; he didn't know what he 

 was doing, nor what the cow was doing — or rather what she wasn't 

 doing. In fact, there's been altogether too little looking and do- 

 ing in this man's business. The dairyman has blindly followed 



