ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 35 



COWS, but the dairyman doesn't know how good or how poor 

 they are. The difference is surprising and vital to the dairy 

 business. It is the difference between success and failure, be- 

 tween poverty and plenty. Find out what each cow is doing — 

 or isn't doing (by weighing and testing her milk). Keep the 

 good cows and keep no others." 



Let the memory and record of Rose ever stand, first, for a 

 definite knowledge of this Difference in production, and second, 

 for a settled policy of improvement of the herd. Standing for 

 this. Rose yill yet save the dairymen who are making the million 

 cows of Illinois 4,000 times $1,200, every year instead of return- 

 ing one owner $1,200 in twelve years. 



Thousands of Profitless Cows in Illinois. 

 Queen and No. 3 are not alone in this losing business. The 

 speaker knows from actual testing of 800 cows in forty different 

 herds that there must be thousands of individual contrasts as 

 great or greater than this in the dairy herds of Illinois. 



How does it come that we have so many poor cows in 

 Illinois? 



A large proportion of Illinois dairymen are not raising their 

 heifer calves, but buying their cows. This means there is no 

 provision for perpetuating the dairy herd or the best cows in it. 

 In a few years all the good blood of the present herd will be 

 gone. This is a ruinous practice to the dairy business. 



The cow buyer has no such natural advantages for getting 

 good cows as the dairyman has. The latter has the mother 

 cows and knows something of their milk record; he has cheap 

 feed and the necessary equipment ; calf raising is a part of his 

 business. It is absurd to suppose that the dairyman can buy 

 as good cows as he can raise. A prominent dairyman of the 

 state says of his grade herd : " The heifers we raise from our 

 best cows are better milk producers with their first calves than 

 are the average mature cows we can buy." Several of our most 

 progressive dairymen have said practically the same thing, which 



