FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 65 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1:30 P. M. 



Mr. O'Hair: We have with us again this afternoon a 

 gentleman who is known over the State of Illinois as an 

 authority on dairying — Professor Caldwell. I want to thank 

 him for what he has done for the dairy business in the State 

 of Illinois. I expect his talk to be very interesting. 



FEEDING MINERALS TO DAIRY COWS 



R. E. Caldwell. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: A little while 

 ago your chairman asked me if I had been out of town try- 

 ing to get a speech, but such was not the case. Mr. Stanard 

 requested that I go to Marion and talk before the Rotary 

 Club. That gave me a good opportunity of telling the other 

 side of this thing to another type of men, the so-called bus- 

 iness men, and I told them as firmly as I knew how what 

 problems the dairy farmer was up against and pleaded with 

 them for full appreciation of your efforts. 



I believe one of the biggest problems is to overcome 

 dissension and class hatred; for you to feel that the town 

 man is against you. What we need to do is to have an un- 

 derstanding and appreciation of each other's position. 

 When we do that, dairy products will be appreciated and 

 used more extensively. 



The subject assigned me is "Minerals and Mineral 

 Feeding." One of the big problems of feeding is that of 

 mineral feeding. However, to understand and to properly 

 correlate the position that minerals occupy in the ration for 

 dairy cattle, you must understand the problem of feeding. 



To feed a dairy cow, as has been told you before in this 

 meeting, you must first of all select a very good cow, be- 



