ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 219 



are better milk producers with their first calves than are the aver- 

 age mature cows we can buy." Several of our most progressive 

 dairymen have said practically the same thing, which means at 

 maturity that two home-bred cows are equal to three that are 

 bought. 



If breeding means anything anywhere it means that the 

 cow's quality of large milk production is likely to be transmitted 

 to her daughter. There is no other animal from which such an 

 absolute and complete record of performance can be secured as 

 from the dairy cow. Shall the value of these records to her pro- 

 geny be thrown away by not saving the good heifer calves ? 



Nobody else has so many natural advantages as the dairy- 

 man for raising good heifers, and nobody else has the dairy- 

 man's interest in it, or is likely to succeed so well at it. Any 

 other principal method of replenishing the herd is sheer waste- 

 fulness of great natural advantages. 



Absolutely Proven. 



Every man who has had extended experience or observation 

 in this matter will agree that the pure-bred dairy sire from high- 

 producing dams, and which is also a good individual, is of pecu- 

 liar value and great economy in building up the herd. The re- 

 cords of dairy breeding have proved it conclusively a thousand 

 times over. No man who studies the facts can doubt it. The 

 evidence is to be seen in the heifers of every such sire, and in 

 their contrast with heifers lacking such parentage. 



The great difference between the good and the poor cow 

 cannot be estimated. The study of these 10 years reveals this 

 fact. I cannot close without referring again to the great con- 

 trast between the good and poor cows and what this really means 

 to the dairyman's pocketbook and the life of his whole family. 



Why Dairying Frequently Doesn't Pay. 



Americans don't take to the idea of chains and slavery, but 

 many an Illinois dairyman has unconsciously drffted into the con- 

 dition of the man in the picture. He is not chained to a fellow 

 prisoner or to a post, but to a common (altogether too common) 

 brute — to a worthless wilful cow. 



