ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 19 



all live stock interests. The Pure Food Commission should have 

 a sufficient number of inspectors to secure the enforcement of 

 this law. 



Pure Bred Sires and Better Cows. 



If this great milk producing state is to hold and increase its 

 prestige and advance its dairy industry, it must raise more and 

 better dairy cows. For years we have been going to neighboring 

 states to buy our cows, why not keep this large expenditure of 

 funds within our own borders? We must raise our own cows 

 and improve the fertility of our dairy farms. We must meet 

 the question of better dairy management squarely. On land 

 that is worth $200 per acre, one can raise a heifer calf and bring 

 her into milk at the age of two to two and one-half years, at a 

 cost not to exceed $45. Suppose that calf is out of a grade cow, 

 that has proved profitible and stood the test of the scales and the 

 Babcock test, and by a sire that has been registered and is of a 

 dairy breed. Would you sell that heifer for $45 or $50? No. 

 Every man present knows that 90 per cent of such heifers are 

 worth twice that amount and you know that the thinking, suc- 

 cessful dairyman is not going to sell a good cow to you for what 

 she is worth to him. 



The southern part of this state can be made the great breed- 

 ing ground for good cows for this and neighboring dairy states. 

 Think of the car loads of milk consumed in Chicago daily, 

 besides the large and increasing demand of other large cities. 

 Are we discharging our duty to the state when St. Louis buys 

 large quantities of milk from the Elgin district and when milk 

 from Wisconsin is shipped to central Illinois? 



We must buy more and better bulls, from deep milking 

 families of cows. It will pay you to see the dam of your bull 

 before you buy him, and insist upon seeing her yearly milk 

 record and pounds of butter fat. Don't be satisfied with a test 

 of two or three weeks for the dam of your sire. The calves 

 which you expect to raise should come from a bull, whose dam 

 was able to milk profitably, for years. There are plenty of such 

 sires. Take the time and spend the money to find them. Your 



