50 ILLINOIS STATE BAIRYMEn's ASSOCIATION. 



Prof. Farrington: I am set down for a paper on 

 Friday forenoon, and will present some ideas on this 

 point at that time. I think the case all depends on 

 exact observation on this matter of the feed, and 

 although I appreciate Mr- Allen's statement and the 

 work that he has done, still I know how many points 

 there are to observe, in taking the weights from day 

 to day, etc. It seems to me that he has shown that 

 for a short time you can increase the richness of the 

 milk, but you can't keep it up. I have been testing 

 some cows very accurately since last April, and test- 

 ing with the Babcock tester, which shows the actual 

 amount of butter fat, and not the amount of butter, 

 which makes considerable difference. You know that 

 sometimes } 7 ou will leave a good deal of butter fat in the 

 buttermilk, and at another time, perhaps with another 

 feed, you will leave a different proportion, and Mr. Allen 

 changed his feed, and did not test his skim-milk, or 

 analyze the butter. It may be that the cow produced the 

 same quality of milk all the time, but he secured different 

 quantities of butter. On Friday I will show you the 

 records of a cow which I have kept very carefully, and 

 I will say that it shows the same result that Mr. Saw- 

 yer has reached. 



MILK VALUE OF SHADE TREES. 



E. M. VAIL, Kewanee, III. 



This matter of shade trees in reference to dairying 

 is a little off my ground. If you wanted me to say 

 something about shade trees for ornament for our 

 homes I might have been able to sav something that 



