242 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A Delegate: — Why is it, when you haul your milk to a 

 creamery, that one week your milk will test away up, and the 

 next week, may be, it will go down, with the same care and the 

 same feed? 



Mr. Glover : — Sometimes cows will vary considerably in 

 per cent of fat, and we cannot account for it ; sometimes mistakes 

 are made in testing the milk. 



A Delegate: — I think that a cow that is fed on good feed 

 will give more butter fat than a cow that is fed on a sandbank. 



Mr. Glover: — That is true; but she won't test higher. She 

 will give more butter fat, because she will give more milk. I 

 have noticed that in places where the farmers took good care 

 of their cows, fed them well, and kept them in warm barns, the 

 test was not as high as the ones that fed their cows, as you say, 

 on sandbanks, but the cows gave more milk. I have seen cow- 

 beepers who have owned 28 cows come to the creamery with 

 two cans of milk, and I have seen dairymen who have owned 28 

 cows come to the creamery with fourteen cans of milk. 



A Delegate : — This gentleman that you spoke of, that is 

 not satisfied with less than 400 pounds of butter per cow, up 

 there in your county ; what particular breed has he ? 



Mr. Glover: — He happens to have Jerseys. And we have 

 another man with Holsteins doing the same thing. 



A Delegate : — You speak about your yearly test. What 

 stock association has a complete yearly test? 



Mr. Glover : — I think the Guernsey association. They send 

 men once a month to the farms, not notifying the farmers when 

 the testers are coming. 



A Delegate : — What breed of cattle gives the largest amount 

 of butter fat per week of any breed we have in the business, 

 according to the records? 



Mr. Glover : — In recent years, the Holstein men have been 

 doing more of the weekly work than any other breeders. The 

 Jersey association have refused to use the Babcock test, but they 



