22 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ent prices would be losing you money and would not be worth 

 keeping as a dairy cow. The question you will have to answer 

 yourself. We will just suppose that the cow that is producing 

 150 pounds of fat is losing $25 to $50 every year, and another 

 cow is returning you $100 over the cost of feed. You will read- 

 ily see that the more cows you have of the 150 pound of fat 

 type, the farther into the hole you will be at the end of the year. 



Mr. Fielden : The 150 pound butterfat cow has a beef val- 

 ue according to her weight and has no dairy value. 



Mr. Collier: In the Cow Testing Association we find one 

 cow that produces 180 pounds of fat and at another place we 

 find cows that produce from 300 to 400 pounds of fat, the re- 

 sult is that one of those cows can be bought for $50 and the 

 other for $125. 



Mr. Mason: The $125 cow is the cheaper by far. 



Mr. Gray: I meant to ask the speaker what would be the 

 probable chances of a young man going into the dairy business, 

 if he wanted to get up a herd of these northern Illinois or Wis- 

 consin Holstein, what he would have to pay for cows that run 

 up close to 400 pounds of fat or make 400 pounds of butter per 

 year. I would like to know what they could be purchased for, 

 what they would cost up there? I belong to this country. 



Mr. Foss: Cows of that type in northern lUinois will sell 

 for $125 and $150. In fact farmers pay that for cows. A 

 neighbor of mine had a public auction on the loth of January 

 and the highest cow brought $147.50. She was a dry cow, and 

 all those cows were raised right there in the neighborhood. 



Mr. Gra}^ : Would she produce in the neighborhood of 

 400 pounds of fat? 



Mr. Foss: It is difficult to tell just what a cow will pro- 

 duce. There is a picture of a cow down at the exhibit. She is 

 a good type cow, but just what she will* produce is hard to say. 



