316 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Springdale Breeding Co., Indianapolis, Ind., brown Swiss heifer, 



under 3 5.00 



M. D. Cunningham, Kansasville, Wis., Guernsey heifer under 3 5.00 



M. D. Cunningham, Kansasville, Wis., Guernsey heifer under 3.... 5.00 



F. R. Sanders, Bristol, N. H., Dutch belted cow, 3 or over 5.00 



A. W. Dopke, N. Milwaukee, Wis., milking red Polled cow, 3 or over. 5.00 



Geo. B. Buck, Sunny Hill, 111., milking red Polled heifer under 3 5.00 



Total $65.00 



Gold Medals were given as follows: 

 Lot 95 — Cow 3 years old or over. To: A. W. Dopke, N. Milwaukee, Wis., 



on red Polled cow, Olena. 

 Lot 96 — Heifer under 3. To: Geo. H. McFadden, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 



Ayrshire cow Maggie, 2nd. 

 Lot 97 — Holstein-Friesian cow 3 or over. Best position in butter test. 



To: F. P. Knowles, Auburn, Mass., on Fannie De Kol 2nd 



42915. 



We also offered special prizes on milk and cream and the 

 entries were tested at the laboratory of the State Board of 

 Health and by the State Chemist. The entry of L. N. Wiggins, 

 from his dairy farm at Springfield, won the highest score. 



Other Auxiliary Meetings. 



In March the Association held dairy meetings at Havana, 

 Washington, Highland and Effingham. The arrangement for 

 the Havana meeting was made by J. F. Sanmann. Addresses 

 were delivered by Professors W. J. Fraser, C. C. Hayden and 

 Carl E. Lee of the State Dairy School, University of Illinois. 

 Prof. Fraser discussed the Dairy Cow from charts and figures, 

 detailing investigations carried on at the dairy school and by the 

 school in the state. He showed the profitable and unprofitable 

 dairy cow and how easy it is to know the difference. He showed 

 the immense losses the farmers are unconsciously suffering 

 every year because of the number of unprofitable cows in their 

 herds. He showed that the difference in the cost of feeding 

 the profitable and unprofitable cows is slight compared to the 

 wide difference in returns. He also showed how easy it was 

 to build up herds to a profit basis and emphasized the absolute 

 necessity of a pure bred sire in this business of building up the 



