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period there were 16 weeks during each of w^iich Rose made 

 more than 12 pounds of butter fat; and in her fifth period, 21 

 weeks. 



Total production for twelve years, 87,102.3 pounds of milk — • 

 43V2 tons — 10,248 gallons — 1,281 cans of 8 gallons each — 106 

 wagon loads of 12 cans each ; allowing three rods for a team this 

 would make a procession one mile long — six carloads, making a 

 good milk train. 



Butter for 12 years, 4,318.36 pounds, worth at present 

 prices (25 cents per pound) $1,079.59. 



Skim milk for 12 years, 72,585 pounds, worth at 15 cents 

 per 100 pounds, $ 108. 88. 



Total receipts for 12 years (not reckoning calves nor 

 manure), $1,188.47, or $90.04 per year. 



Just think what the receipts of a dairyman would be whose 

 herd consisted of 25 cows of this kind — $2,500 per year, not 

 including calves and manure. 



Rose was bought for $50 when 4 years of age. She has 

 had only ordinary treatment, no better than she would receive 

 on a good dairy farm. She has not been pampered or fed to 

 produce the utmose amount of milk. 



Rose Is Representative. 



Remarkable as the performance of this grade cow, she is 

 not heralded as standing apart in unapproachable splendor, but 

 as a great leader of the thousands of money-making cows m 

 Illinois. 



Illinois has a million dairy cows. Like men, they do not 

 travel the same path nor reach the same destination. Whither 

 are they going, and how far, in their service for the dairyman? 

 Who has stopped to ask, much less to answer the question? 

 What difference is there in their efficiency? In the profits they 

 leave in the owner's pocket at the close of the year ? The dairy- 

 man has been in the dark as to the paths his cows take. But under 

 the arc light of the scales and the Babcock test the parting of the 

 ways is made plain. Half of all the cow's in Illinois take the 

 one or the other of the above paths. 



