30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



are all acquainted with Prof. Fraser, and some of us are particu- 

 larly aware of the good work he is doing. He is especially to 

 be commended for the bulletin he will now describe to us. 



ESTABLISHING AN EFFICIENT DAIRY HERD. 



By Prof. W. J. Fraser, University of Illinois. 



Mr. President, I think if the gentlemen over in that portion 

 of the house will sit over here, they will get a great deal more 

 good, as the larger part of my remarks are on these charts. 



The actual relation of the cow and the herd to the real 

 profits derived from dairy farming is little realized by the people 

 depending upon this occupation for a living. There is no line of 

 farming where well-directed effort will pay so large a profit. 

 Notice I say zuell directed effort for the profits derived from dairy 

 farming depend almost entirely upon the good judgment and 

 common sense used. The profits on the average dairy farm in 

 Illinois today can easily be doubled. 



Discovered Only by Scales and Test. 



Quite unsuspected these Queens have everywhere honey- 

 combed dairy society. All of them are dead beats; they will 

 never pay for their board. The more of them a dairyman keeps, 

 the poorer he is. The way to find out — the only sure way — is 

 to weigh and test the milk of each cow. 



What Rose Hath Wrought. 

 Twelve pounds of butter fat for a single w^ek, is the pro- 

 duction requirement for admission to the Holstein-Friesian ad- 

 vanced register. Three times in her third lactation period Rose 

 made 17 2-3 pounds of butter fat per week. Twenty different 

 weeks of that period her yield was more than 12 pounds per week. 

 For five successive weeks, six months after calving, her average 

 was 13 pounds of butter fat per week. In her fourth lactation 



