124 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The lack of whitewash in this cow stable, together with the pond 

 ihole and other failures to comply with printed regulations supplied 

 both farms, makes at this creamery a difference of 4 cents per -hundred 

 pounds between the grade of milk supplied by this south side farm and 

 that from the north side of the roa d. But if the same price of 14 cents 

 per pound of butter fat is paid both lots of cows for their milk, their re- 

 ward is not the same per cow. 



On this particular day the twelve south side cows gave 171 pounds of 

 milk, which tested 4.3 per cent of fat, making a total of 7.4 pounds of 

 butter fat, and this at 14 cents per pound amounts to $1.03. The south 

 side cows were not fed anything when brought to the barn, but milked and 

 left by the barn side to wander or to wonder why their milk had fallen 

 off 42 pounds in a week and their neighbor's only 24 pounds. 



Now the 12 cows on the north farm were given green feed and grain 

 each day and their milk amounts to enough to pay their owner $1.47, which 

 , is 44 cents more per day than the other man received from the same num- 

 ber of cows kept on dry pasture only, in dry weather and fly time. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member: Was this 35 cents' worth of meal per day per cow or for 

 them all. 



A. That was for the whole herd. 



Mr. J. A. Willaims: I would like to ask you what is the difference in 

 value between a ton of ensilage and a ton of clover hay? 



A. I cannot answer. I don't think any one can answer that question. 

 It depends on different seasons of the year and the circumstances that 

 surround the farmer. I think Mr. Gurler knows more about that. 



Q. How much ensilage does it take to make a ton? 



A. It depends on how well it is packed, whether packed down close cr 

 not. 



Mr. Patten: How large a silo would you advise a man to build to 

 support twenty-five to thirty cows. 



