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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Cow No. 24 11,199 pounds of milk 397 pounds of fat 



I>am 8,199 " " 264 



Grand Dam 9,802 " " 386 • " 



21 mondis 16,481 710 



21 mondis 17,042 77- 



Increase over dam. 3,000 133 



Cow No. 36 7,808 pounds of milk 329 



7,180 " " 293 



10,010 " , " 419 



Dam 6,141 " • " 325 " " 



Average 8,333 " " 342 



Increase 2,192 " " 18 " '' 



Cow No. 2)7 11,018 " " 380 



Cow No. 6 9,802 " " 386 



Cow No. 7 4,701 " ' " 167 



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This is an interesting story. We have a record here of the 

 dam and the daughter. These are ordinary cows we first 

 started in with, and their daughters were sired by a pure bred 

 sire. Cow No. 21 has an average record for five consecutive 

 years of 11,289 pounds of milk and 380 pounds of fat. Her 

 dam for four successive years had an average of 7,614 pounds 

 of milk and 246 pounds of fat. The average increase was 3,675 

 pounds of milk and 134 pounds of fat. The dam is not a poor 

 cow, for she produced 246 pounds of fat and returned quite a 

 little profit. All the feed the daughter consumed more than the 

 other was a little more grain. The dam occupied just as much 

 room in the barn as the other, and it took almost as lone to milk 



