^^2 Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



Mr. Chase: — The Durhams constituted a great part of the 

 herds I tested, there were about thirty or forty of these and 

 twenty of the other breeds, and I beheve the Durhams did as 

 well as any. They did better than the Holsteins, taking every- 

 thing into consideration, although I do not know much about 

 the Holsteins. As I said, they were freshening and going dry 

 at that time and it is hard to get any estimate in so short a time. 

 I did not want to give the impression that the Durhams are 

 worthless but I want to say that their records are not compar- 

 able with fancy records which we have seen. 



The Chairman : — We have with us this afternoon a gentle- 

 man who will tell us about cow testing associations, Mr. Helmer 

 Rabild, Inspector of the Dairy and Food Commission of Michi- 

 gan. Mr. Rabild has had a great deal of experience in this 

 matter and will give us a good deal of information on the sub- 

 ject. 



CO-OPERATIVE COW TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. 



January 20, 1908. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Illinois State Dairy- 

 men's Association : — 



When Mr. Lillie asked me to come to this convention to 

 fill, not his place, but his appointment, I confess that I felt some- 

 how unhappy. It seemed to me that I would be committing a 

 fraud upon you. Many of you know Mr. Lillie, perhaps per- 

 sonally and have had opportunity to listen to his open and plain 

 explanations of the problems and the technicalities of the dairy 

 business, and have come here expecting to hear him again. How- 

 ever, he left me no choice in the matter. He is now busily en- 

 gaged as a representative from his county in revising the con- 

 stitution of the state. The constitution is fifty years old, and 

 the state has been growing so rapidly during these fifty years 

 that it has outgrown its constitution and people felt that it had 

 to be broadened out to fit the new conditions. 



I cannot deliver the address Mr. Lillie would have delivered, 

 only a supplement to it. The dairy business calls for a great 

 deal of technical knowledge, more so than any other system of 

 farming. A dairyman must first be a successful farmer. He 

 must know how to grow maximum crops and how to harvest and 

 preserve these crops properly, and in addition to this, he must 



