30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



they can do the most good, instead of sending them to the 

 butcher, then we are going to make very great progress 

 indeed. 



All sires when they reach a certain age become more 

 or less hard to handle; more or less vicious. I would not 

 encourage anybody to take a chance on a bull of this kind. 

 But I have always believed that the intelligence of man is 

 sufficient to cope with the intelligence of a bull provided he 

 is willing to make the necessary effort. 



About the only message I can bring to you this morn- 

 ing, in addition to what has been said, is just a sort of sum- 

 ming up, so that you can take these things home and put 

 them into practice. 



If there is any one thing which has been said that I 

 want to emphasize more than anything else, it is this: 



Do not wait for somebody to organize you. Get to- 

 gether and go into a cow testing association on the basis 

 where your records are made for the purpose of analysis 

 and get some real value out of it. Find out for yourself 

 whether the cow should go to the butcher or whether you 

 should take a little better care of your cows. 



The first fundamental principle of giving a cow a 

 chance to give you production, as vindicated by the tests of 

 the association, is to feed them enough. We do a lot of 

 worrying about balanced rations, when really we should 

 not have to be doing very much worrying at all. We have 

 not reached the point where we are feeding our cows 

 enough when we are giving them enough to eat. After you 

 do that, begin figuring out whether it is the right feed or 

 not. Let's keep this one thing firmly fixed in our minds: we 

 are going to give our cows enough to eat. 



I am talking from the standpoint of the dairy industry. 

 I know all of you people here give your cows enough to eat; 

 I am talking about your neighbor. (Laughter). 



When I say give them enough to eat, I mean 365 days 

 of the year. I do not know of anybody who would give 

 their cows enough to eat one day and not enough the next 

 day and expect to get very big production by that proced- 

 ure. That is not a good way to make milk profitably. 



