52 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



A: Well, the ground alfalfa and sugar — if you have got a 

 cow that puts it on her back instead of into the milk pail, don't 

 feed her alfalfa and molasses. You must feed some corn and 

 some oats. The reason of that ground alfalfa is, that many of 

 these feeds are too heavy, they lay too heavily on the stomach 

 of the cow and you have to lighten them up, that is why I put 

 the bran in the gluten feed — to lighten it up, and alfalfa is the 

 most admirable thing in the world to lighten up the feed. 



Q : Would you recommend the farmers of this coimty to 

 quit their lines and go into dairying where they are not used to 

 it, in this part of the county? 



A: Yep. (Laughter). I will tell you why. It is because 

 the cow will leave the farm better than she found it. You can 

 increase the production and value of your land. The Islands of 

 Jersey and Guernsey were barren wastt, in the English Channel 

 and now they are two of the most fertile spots in the world, — 

 that is why I would go to dairying. Some people will tell you 

 that if everybody goes to dairying butter will not bring more 

 than lo cents a pound. Don't you believe it. Statistics show 

 that we are consuming double the amount of dairy products that 

 we were ten years ago, and our population is increasing at the 

 rate of a million a year. 



O : How about the milking machine ? 



A: Well, sir, I have never owned or run a milking ma- 

 chine. The reason is I have had only from lo to 20 cows and 

 I don't think it is practical for a small herd. My notion is this, 

 that if you have a right bright man who knows about machin- 

 ery and how to handle it and loves cows and will strip the cow- 

 after the milking machine, he will make a success of it, but, if 

 the fellow don't know enough to run a wheell>arrow and can't 

 run that straight, he wants to leave a milking machine alone. 

 (Laughter). I do know a dozen men in our community that 

 did use them and don't use them now, and some that use them 

 yet, but we will get a perfected milking machine later on. 



Q: If you've got plenty of corn, wouldn't it be just as well 

 to feed the cow all the corn she'll eat? 



