120 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Judd: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Willson: What advantage do you claim for feeding the 

 bran dry.? 



Mr. Judd: It saves lots of time and labor in putting the 

 water on. I put the bran right in the mangers in the barn and 

 they eat it there. 



Mr. Boyd: Do you figure this one pound of butter a day all 

 the year around? 



Mr. Judd: No, sir; that would make 365 pounds of butter 

 a year and we don't do that. 



A Member: How about when she is dry.? 



Mr. Judd: All my dry cows get two quarts of bran a day 

 and sheaf oats, the same as the others do. 



A Member: I understood you to say that ration cost eight 

 cents a day and produced one pound a day. 



Mr. Judd: If she produced two pounds it is only half that, 



A Member: How about all the time she is dry, don't you 

 charge that up to the butter.? 



Mr. Judd: I told you I figured 180 days at 12 cents and 5 

 cents on pasture. I figured on an average of 286 pounds and 

 that made the cost 8 cents. If she is producing less than 286, it 

 is costing you more than 8 cents a pound. 



A Member: How do you cut your oats.? 



Mr. Judd: With a binder and shocked them up, but I cut 

 the corn when it is about two-thirds ripe and the stalks a little 

 green. You don't want too well matured. 



Mr. Stewart: What proportion of your oat straw is left after 

 feeding.? 



Mr. Judd: There is very little left. You would be surprised 

 to see how little. My corn fodder is going to run a little short, 

 so I have been feeding a little hay at night and putting these 

 sheaf oats on top of it and they will leave that nice, clean, bright 

 hay, half clover and half timothy, and take those oats, including 

 the straw. 



Mr. Dennis: How do you keep your oats so the mice won't 

 eat them.? 



Mr. Judd: I pack them in the barn, stack them, heads in. 



