36 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



we have been running experiment stations; at least, I have 

 never done that. But I have seen others doing a certain 

 thing vv^hich I thought would work out successfully if I tried 

 it. Sometimes it has not paid me and sometimes it has cost 

 me a considerable amount of work. 



I am not here to argue with you about any of these 

 things that I have done or left undone, but I am here, as the 

 Irishman said, simply to tell you. I am supposed to talk to 

 you about better cows, better care and better feeding. I am 

 trying) to get along that line. 



I have in my hand a picture of a cow that is giving 

 thirty-seven thousand pounds of milk a year and making 

 fifteen hundred pounds of butter in the course of a year. I 

 also have here a copy of a check from a man who is selling 

 milk to the largest receiving station there is close to Carbon- 

 dale, from where the milk goes to St. Louis. 



They have over 800 patrons and this man's check for 

 the month of October was 228 pounds of milk, for which 

 he received the great sum of $3.80. Think of that! One 

 cow was making 37,000 pounds in a year and the contrast 

 with this man's record. I do not know whether he sold 

 milk for the last day of the month only or what the situation 

 may be, but that is all the money he got from his herd of 

 cows. But I do know that this station, with over 800 pat- 

 rons, is now receiving about 37,000 pounds of milk per day 

 and that is between 40 and 50 pounds of milk per man. 



Now, what we want to get at this afternoon is a happy 

 medium. Wo do not want to be away down below that 

 average. 



The thing that we want, brothers and sisters, is the cow 

 that we can manage successfully and, whether that cow be 

 a pure-bred cow or whether she be a grade cow, let us do 

 our best with her. 



Some years ago, we had on our place a cow that was 

 doing fairly well. She was making three gallons of milk a 

 day, but every time I started to milk her, up would go her 

 leg and I would have to watch out. It did not increase the 

 flow of milk any and I got angry at the continued repeti- 

 tion of this annoyance. So finally I said to my son: **We 



