42 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Boyd: Can you eliminate the flavor of musty hay by 

 cooling.^ 



Mr. Spies: That is food that deteriorates milk. The milk 

 has got to be sound, of course, but if you take good, sound 

 milk as it comes from the cow and cool it down, it will not be 

 affected by odors under ordinary cicrumstances. 



WINTER FEEDING OF DAIRY COWS IN SOUTHERN 



ILLINOIS. 



BY L. A. SPIES, ST. JACOB, ILLS. 



The feeding of dairy cows in different localities is influenced 

 most by the kind of feed that thrives best in that particular 

 locality. 



Southern Illinois (like Egypt of old) is and has long been 

 noted for its crops of corn. It is the poor man's meat, milk 

 and flour. It yields from fifteen to twenty-five tons of the 

 most nourishing feed per acre, for this reason I make it the 

 basis of all my winter dairy rations adding such feeds as are 

 plentiful and supplying concentrated food such as Linseed oil 

 meal and Cotton seed meal to balance the ration, since these 

 forms of food cost but little freight. 



Come with me to look over the cows that I am going to 

 tell you about, here we have large deep bodied cows that can 

 put away good big rations and give milk as only such cows can. 



We have them come fresh in the fall of the year, they give 

 a large flow of milk during winter and in spring they keep up 

 the quantity on the young grass, giving us most milk when dairy 

 products are highest. 



We have long since quit buying other people's mistakes, we 

 raise our own cows, train them to be hearty eaters, and develop 

 a sound constitution. It requires a certain amount of feed to 

 maintain the cow's body, the balance goes to milk; the greater 



