50 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Stewart: I think you may thank your stars, as you 

 state, that you are an American freeborn and Hve near St. Louis. 

 Your paper is a good one, but if you lived where I do, your way 

 of doing would be no use whatever. We live close to the city 

 of Chicago, and they are not receiving any milk from us that is 

 fed on ensilage, or made from Holstein cows ; they won't receive it. 



Mr. Spies: I think that the man who can adapt himself to 

 circumstances, as Robinson Crusoe did, is deserving of a little 

 bit of credit, although I don't want any in my case. We have 

 got a firm in St. Louis that refused absolutely to receive Hol- 

 stein milk, and there was a neighbor of mine exhibiting some 

 Holstein stock down here and he was shipping to this same 

 place, to the Union Dairy Company. The company has re- 

 ceived that milk for two years and didn't know it. 



Mr. Stewart: You can't trick our Chicago men that way. 



Mr. Monrad: Wasn't that before the Babcock test.? 



Mr. Spies: This was along about 1887, and I will say that 

 they employed a first-class German chemist to analyze their 

 milk. They have raised their standard every year, but they 

 are still willing to receive Holstein milk. 



Mr. Stewart: How does it happen that a St. Louis dairy 

 company which moved to Chicago won't take it.? 



Mr. Spies: The test requires that the milk shall not be 

 below three per cent, and it will run from 3.25 to 3.75, along 

 there. If your cow gets a little below a certain weight and you 

 keep her there, your cow is going to take a living out of her 

 feed first, and that makes her milk poor, but, on the other hand, 

 you raise her a little bit above that, and I am satisfied that the 

 milk will be richer. I told you that I was given two cents 

 above the St. Louis market for Holstein milk. I will tell you 

 why; it was because I was right in my dairy myself and looking 

 after all the details, and then, besides that, I increased my herd 

 largely and contracted for a large amount of milk. When the 

 condenser started up I commenced to take my milk up there and 

 I have taken it there for three years. The St. Louis man sent 



