62 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



It comes natural after you get used to it. I believe in keeping 

 the cows in good condition, and, as you heard a while ago about 

 each cow having her place in the barn, that is essential. You 

 take a large stable full of cows and each cow finds her own 

 place. My barn is 136 feet long and the stalls look alike and 

 yet each cow will pick out her own stall. I have stabled those 

 cows in three minutes where if they did not keep to the same stall 

 there would be confusion and take twenty minutes or more. 

 When we buy a cow in the fall we run her to her stall; if she 

 comes in and goes in two or three different stalls she will keep 

 that up all winter. She will not go to her stall but will go 

 through that performance every time, so watch her when she 

 first comes in. 



Borden's will not receive frozen milk. We always cover 

 it up so it will not get too hot in summer or freeze in winter. 

 Many times I have sat outside waiting two hours in summer 

 and that milk would not heat up more than two degrees. In 

 Southern Illinois they will not cover the cans but in Northern 

 Illinois they use a blanket. 



Member : You never see it in Freeport. 



Mr. Mason : They do it in Elgin ; you become accustomed 

 to it and it is no trouble. 



Mr. Foss : I have some data on this question and I could 

 send it to you if you would care to have it. I can only talk off- 

 hand. In the first place it depends on the market that you have 

 for your milk. Another thing, you never want to buy any feed this 

 time of the year, buy in June when it is cheap and you make a 

 good investment. It depends on the milk and feed. Take for 

 instance my heaviest milker, the one that returned three dollars 

 for every dollar's worth of feed. If you figure corn at 60c a 

 bushel, can I afford to buy a bushel of corn and feed it into that 

 cow and receive $1.80? Can I afford 'to buy bran for $2.75 and 

 feed it into that cow and get $70.00 and have three- fourths of 

 it returned? If you have got a poor cow that is not paying you 

 any profit, you cannot afford to, but if you have one that is 

 paying you a profit you can afford to do it. 



