56 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Q: The majority of my cows are Jersey. 



A: Jersey cows you will have to feed a little bit higher 

 protein than you would the Holstein. They say the Holstein 

 eats oceans of roughage. You would think from that that Jer- 

 seys eat nothing but diamonds. I would make a ration that 

 would give that cow that is giving 30 pounds of 5 per cent or 

 6 per cent milk about 2 pounds of protein a day and 7 pounds 

 of carbohydrates and one pound of fat. 



Q : Let me write that down. 



A : I use Hecker's ration. I use a little less protein and 

 more carbohydrates. I know a man that is mixing his feed and 

 is having great success and you can't pump out of that fellow 

 what he feeds those cows with a stomach pump, but I haven't 

 got any secrets. If there is anything I can tell you while I am 

 here I will be very much pleased to do it. I would make a ration 

 for those cows of 7 pounds of carbohydrates to 2 pounds of pro- 

 tein and about one pound of fat, that is about the ration that 

 they need. If the cow fed on balanced ration is not putting fat 

 on her back, add corn; if she is putting on too much, take it 

 away. 



I know the man that makes Arcady feed, his name is Dave 

 Williams. He is the best dairyman you ever saw and he tries 

 to make an honest feed, and there are plenty of men trying to 

 make a good, clean, honest feed, but gentlemen, I regret, as a 

 citizen of this great country of ours, to say to- you that the thing 

 that Americans see is a piece of silver about that big. Fifteen 

 years ago, when I went to running a farm, I remember when 

 North Dakota passed a pure food law and it was demonstrated 

 by tests that they found poison in a can of corn that, if a man 

 had eaten the same ration each day for five years, it would have 

 killed him. They found this condition in nearly every food pro- 

 duct in North Dakota. It is that commercialism that I wish we 

 could get out of our heads. The Holland farmer never owns 

 more than five acres, he takes care of his cows, he sits on his 

 porch in the heat of the day and smokes his pipe in peace and 

 contentment, but we Americans have been taught that money is 



