148 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



cheated the dairyman out of the profits of his labor. We 

 have detected this boarder cow that never pays her bill and 

 for several years have been sending her to the butcher by 

 scores and hundreds. But the timothy thief has deceived 

 us until the present day — deceived the dairyman but not 

 deceived the cow which takes timothy for just what it is, a 

 well dressed but worthless semblance of dairy feed. 



Just so long as timothy is grown on the dairy farm, this 

 thief will crouch in the manger and "get away with" more 

 than half the milk, as surely as if the cow kicked the pail 

 over in the gutter. 



The cow could have convicted this thief any day but 

 instead she followed her old policy of "saw wood and say 

 nothing;" in chewing timothy she literally saws wood and 

 — gives nothing. But the ration radio has at last picked up 

 her voice and she says in the plainest language, "We must 

 eat what is set before us, but in the name of all good taste 

 and a full milk pail for hard working dairymen, give us the 

 twentieth amendment that shall forever prohibit the manu- 

 facture and feeding of timothy hay." Can any dairyman 

 examine the evidence and pass any other sentence? 



Clover and Timothy. 



Many dairymen discerned the timothy folly, as the 

 grosser transgression always betrays itself, and many dairy- 

 men had begun to suspect that coarse pretender of large 

 default in delivering the goods that would supplement corn 

 in making milk. But when timothy got into partnership 

 with clover, a legume with a good name, clover and timothy 

 didn't seem so bad. It was received in the best dairy cir- 

 cles as a fair substitute for the rich legume the dairymen 

 would like to feed. For many who had repeated difficulty 

 in getting a good stand of clover, this mixed hay was a wel- 

 come compromise, and it has come to be very generally and 

 unquestionably accepted. To be sure, it often happens with 

 the mixed hay as with the "rabbit" sausage of the Paris 

 butcher, which he had to admit contained some horse 

 meat; when pressed for the truth, it was "50-50 ;" and asked 

 to explain still more in detail, it was "one rabbit to one 



