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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOC [ATION. 



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SHORT-HORN COW, BELLE OF SQUAW CREEK, 

 Vol. 36. 



Milk record, 77-day test, 3.4 pounds per day. Milk test, 

 77-day period, 3.71 per cent. Butter record, 77-day test 1-35 

 pounds per day. 



I wish to say, however, that to combine beef and dairy pro- 

 duction, in one of the so-called combined breeds, is, I believe, a 

 more diiBcult matter than to produce profitably and successfully 

 from any of the special breeds, because strong tendencies will 

 develop in your herd to convert the feed into milk on the one 

 hand or into beef by other individual cows or even the same cow 

 under different conditions. It is more difficult to adjust condi- 

 tions and that is one reason why many men do not get satisfac- 

 tory returns in using combined breeds. Here the intelligence of 

 the feeder must come in. Laws and Gilbert have determined 

 that from two thirds to two fifths of the increase in live weight 

 by fattening animals is pure fat and in order to produce that fat, 

 of course, feeds that are largely fat may be given, while the dairy 

 cow in producing a nitrogenous product must be fed a nitrogen- 

 ous ration and we must also feed largely of succulent foods. I 



