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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 period there were 16 weeks during each of which 

 Rose made more than 12 pounds of butter fat; and in her fifth 

 period, 21 weeks. 



Total production for 12 years, 87, 102.3 pounds of milk- « 

 43 1-2 tons— 10,248 gallons— 1,281 cans qf 8 gallons each— 106 

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

 this would make a procession one mile long — 6 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 man- 

 ure), $1,188.47, or $99.04 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 

 counting 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 utmost amount of milk. 



Rose Is Representative. 



Remarkable as is 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 

 in Illinois. 



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

 all 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 



