156 ILLINOIS DAIKYMEX'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Mowbray : — We get good results ; it never freezes in 

 our barn. 



Mr. Cobb: — Thirty-eight is freezing point, is it not? 



Mr. Mowbray: — O no. It never freezes in our barn and I 

 think about 36 to 37 in the coldest weather is as low as I have 

 seen it. 



Mr. Cobb: — One hundred miles south of here I never 

 allowed my barn to get below 50, and rather have it at 60 for 

 best results. 



Mr. Mowbray : — Do you get better results at 60 than at 50 ? 



Mr. Cobb :— Yes sir. 



Mr. Mowbray: — With our barn built as I have suggested, 

 in Minnesota, and the. kind of weather we have there, we do not 

 keep it as high as 50, but still we get good results. 



Question : — In cold weather does not the wind blow down 

 the ventilators and lower the temperature in the barn? 



Mr. Mowbray: — No sir. To be sure, when it is very cold 

 or very windy, we partially close them so we do not get a 

 surplus amount of air, and the air in our barn is always good. 



The President : — Mr. Mowbray, we are interested here and 

 have been for forty or fifty years in trying to make fine butter. 

 We have learned of late that Minnesota is making a great deal 

 of fine butter. I wish you would try and tell us, as far as 

 possible, just what kind of cows you keep. What is the general 

 run of cows in your section, and what you feed them, so we 

 can get some information that will help us in bettering our 

 conditions, because we want to beat Minnesota next time we 

 go after that banner. 



Mr. Mowbray: — I think we have some conditions in Min- 

 nesota which are very helpful to us. We have water, air and 

 grasses that are hard to beat, and successful dairying and high 

 grade butter depends very largely upon those three factors. 

 Perhaps in the average of the three we have some advantage over 

 the state of Illinois. Our grasses, I think, are certainly ahead 

 of yours and, then again, I think that the extreme hot weather 



