170 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Advises Better Barns. 



Throughout the country are a large number of barns 

 that are drafty, dirty and poorly lighted. For the next five 

 months this is going to be the house and home of the ani- 

 mals that produce your food, the milk you and your chil- 

 dren drink and the backbone of your winter supplies. If 

 this food they produce is going to be the best, the cleanest 

 and most wholesome, it is advisable to look after that barn 

 right now. Do not wait unti next spring and say, "Fll have 

 to make that barn warmer for next year. I lost considerable 

 by having my cows too cold." See to it now that you have 

 plenty of bedding for the winter and where you have a 

 dark, dirty barn, clean it up and put in windows. Of course 

 it will cost something (but if you have cows that it pays to 

 milk, it will increase their flow more than enough to pay for 

 it, and if it will not pay to fix up the barn, get rid of the 

 cows. — Joseph B. Day (Tester), Floyd Co., C. T. A., Iowa. 



Stanchion Strangled Best Cow. 



The top cow of the November report, strangled herself 

 in a wooden stanchion. One member lost two head this 

 way last year but he has steel stanchions now. The member 

 that installed drinking cups is very well pleased with them. 

 — Harry Haling (Tester, Marshall-Grundy C. T. A. 



Monthly Test of Separators, Important. 



A monthly test on cream separators is very important 

 as clearly shown by a member who has just taken a vacant 

 place in the association. He had lost during the month of 

 January $8.32 worth of butterfat, and he stated that his 

 separator was running much better than last summer and 

 fall. So, according to that, if he would have started at the 

 first of the association year, he would have saved enough to 

 pay for association work, also a new separator bowl and 

 would still be making a profit of $12.34. A poor separator 

 is one of the worst leaks of profit on a dairy farm. — Karl 

 Wiederrecht (Tester), Fayette No. 2 C. T. A. 



