MRS. ARTHUR HOWARD 

 'She goes to Home 

 Bureau meetings. " 



THE HOWARD HOME 

 Rebuilt after a tornado went through.' 



THE BOSS AND CARNATION CHANCELLOR 

 "His sire a National Grand Champion." 



He Made a National Record 



The Story of Arthur Howard, Farm Bureau Member, 



Dairyman and Holstein Breeder 



By HOWARD C. HILL 



RTHUR HOWARD, welt 



; known J.iiryman, Holstein 



brecdcT .ind l\irm Bureau 

 member, lias passed away.* I spent the 

 last three and one-half hours of his lite 

 with him on his I 30 acre farm in Kane 

 ( ounty. I had never known him before, 

 but I shall never forget him as a friend. 



I lirove up to his house one mornini; 

 in mid-November. 7hc Howard farm 

 lies between Dundee and Elgin, across 

 the road from the ^'eoman City of Child 

 hood. Mrs. Howard informed me that 

 I would find him in the barn. 



He was there with his beloved Holstein 

 cattle. It was a chilly day, but he was 

 dressed only in overalls, a workshirt and 

 a leather jacket unbuttoned. He greeted 

 me with a smile, a perfect picture of 

 health. To look at him. one would never 

 have known that he was "i? years old. 

 His hpir was full, his cheeks red and his 

 blue ♦yes sparkling. I'rom the first mo- 

 ment I set eyes on him, I liked him. 



I told him that I had come to write a 

 story about him. Hi.s eyes twinkled as 

 much as to question why .xnyone* would 

 w.int a story about him. He started rigjit 

 in to tell me about his four children. 

 Ralph. :!(). he said, is a Jimior at the 



■* N(r. How.ird ».is jjorcJ to Jc.uh by .in 

 aged and trustt-d Holstein bull. — not the 

 one in the picture — less than half an hour 

 after he was interviewed for thii story The 

 animal knocked him down and trampled him 

 while he was leading; it from the b.irn ' 



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University of Illinois. Robert, 2~, the 

 eldest, is testing cows in Lake County. 

 (Robert has since returned to the farm 

 and is rimning it at the present time). 

 Dorothy, 2V the only daughter, is teach- 

 ing school near Dundee. Arthur Jr., 1 3, 

 the baby of the family, is in eighth grade 

 and will start to high sihool next fall. 



"Nothing like starting with a good 

 education," Mr. Howard said. It was 

 then I discovered he had attended the 

 two-year short course in .igriculture at 

 the Univ<^sity of Wisconsin in lyOi-O'i. 

 His main interest in college was crops. 



I started to ask questions, but he re- 

 fused to answer them until I had seen his 

 purebreil cattle. He had started this 

 splendiil black and white herd many 

 years ago with two or three cows. Now, 

 his stock includes 46 head, 22 milk cows, 

 10 calves, four bulls and the rest yearling 

 heifers. 



We passed the pen of a magnificent 

 bull. I asked about him. The little 

 man's face lit up as he told me that the 

 animal was Carnation Chancellor, son of 

 the Grand C^hampion, Carnation Master- 

 piece. 



' Don t you ever show him.^ I in 

 quired. 



"No," he laughed. I don't have time. 

 The kids have shown the calves at i-H 

 Club shows and have done pretty well. 

 Arthur Jr. showed two last summer at 

 the fair in Klgin. He won first with one, 

 and second with the other " 



I started to take a picture ol Chancellor 

 in his pen. but Mr. Howard would have 



none of it. Nothing would do but that 

 the animal be taken outdoors in the light. 

 Several of the finer cows were also led 

 outside to be photographed. 



'Send me the ones you don t use.' he 

 .said laughingly. 



After every cow had been seen, Nlr. 

 Howard finally answered a few questions 

 about himself. He couldn't seem to un- 

 derstand why anyone could be inter- 

 ested in wh.it he was doing. He finally 

 admitted that he was awarded a gold 

 medal last year for having the highest 

 production average in Class C in the 

 United States. Class C includes cows 

 milked twice a day. Mr. Howards best 

 cow produced 7^6 pounds of butttrfat. 

 The herd averaged ^21 pounds. 



In answer to a question why he was 

 successful with cattle, Mr. Howard 

 said: "Well, after 2") years of constant 

 testing, culling, eliminating poor pro- 

 ducers from the herd and fteding 

 a balanced ration according to pro- 

 duction, I ought to have some results by 

 this time." 



Mr. Howard was convinced a high 

 producing cow should be fed more 

 grain than lower producers. 'Variety 

 of feed that cows relish shouki be in- 

 cluded in the ration, he said. The ra- 

 tion he fed his herd that day consisted 

 of 200 pounds of ground corn, 100 

 pounds of bran, 100 pounds of dried 

 brewers grain and ■)() pounds of gluten 

 meal. 



When asked about including soybean 

 oil meal in the dairy ration, Mr. Howard 

 stated that he was just beginning to use 



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