36 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



O: Would you disinfect the cow? 



A: Yes. 



Q : What would you use ? 



A: The same thing as for the bull. 



Q : Do you think you can do better work with a force 

 syringe ? 



A: It takes a little practice with the gravity system. I 

 usually prepare two quarts when I start to disinfect the bull, be- 

 cause some of it goes to waste. Abortion is a serious thing and 

 I bring it up especially in connection with this breeding pen. ] 

 find that nothing will hold the bull like this little pen. 



Q : Your breeding pen would be all right where one bull is 

 kept. Suppose you had two or three? 



A : Build as many pens as you have bulls. There is noth- 

 ing expensive about them. They ought to be near the barn. I 

 have a place where there are five or six trees which provide an 

 abundance of shade for the bull. 



Q: What kind of cows do you keep? 



A : Guernseys. In my section the Guernsey is about as pop- 

 ular as the Holstein is in Mr. Mason's district. 



Q : Is it a good plan to cross the breeds ? 



A: I don't believe in crossing any of the beef strains with 

 the milk straiiis. I never believed in the dual purpose cow. I 

 would not even go to the extent of using a Holstein sire upon 

 a grade Guernsey herd. You have to stick to a certain. breed. It 

 is the individual in the breed that counts. You can make an ab- 

 solute failure with any breed and you can make a success of it. 

 In purebred stock it is the individual that counts and that is why 



