244 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Glover : — The ration would materially lack in protein. 

 You have nowhere near enough protein for a cow to give a large 

 flow of milk. She might do well for a while on that ration. 

 You have considerable meat making material in the way of 

 corn, and by giving her some stover it will keep up a good flow 

 for quite a while, but she will not hold up on that ration through 

 her milking period. If she is a heavy milking cow, she should 

 have some bran or gulten feed, or oil meal or cotton seed meal, 

 to give the ration a large percentage of protein. You would not 

 have, in that ration, over a pound and a half of protein ; and 

 that is just about enough, on the average, to make 15 pounds 

 of four per cent milk. You may make more than that, because 

 your cow will draw upon her system. I do not tvish to be 

 understood as saying that she will not make more than 15 

 pounds of milk. She may, for awhile, but she will not keep it 

 up year after year. 



The Chairman : — We will have to call this to a close, for 

 this afternoon. It is about five o'clock. You taxpayers have 

 to pay the bill for doing this work in Illinois. Mr. Glover has 

 left us, and gone to Wisconsin recently. What Jefferson county, 

 Wisconsin, has done, Illinois can do ; and we will ask for appro- 

 priations each year, and demonstrate this to you at home .1 

 believe that is more satisfactory than to do it all at the experiment 

 station. 



We have over a million cows in Illinois, according to the 

 census of 1900. They only returned us $29.00 a cow — about 

 150 pounds of butter. If we can bring them up to the Jefferson 

 county standard we will bring into our state millions of dollars 

 every year. That seems a stupendous lot of money, but if you 

 figure it out, it is a fact. And it will be nearly all profit. You 

 are now receiving $29.00 per cow per year, and it costs nearly 

 that to keep her. 



