14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIEYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



Or does the urine stand in pools upon the floor and accumulate, 

 together with the solid manure upon the sides and udders of your cows ? 

 Be sure it will weigh heavily upon the failure side when it finds its way into 

 the milk pail. The man who manures his milk instead of his land, does 

 not deserve to succeed. 



Do your cows drink ice-water in the winter, and with rainbow backs 

 stand shivering in the cruel blasts of a fierce " northeaster ? " They will 

 burn the dollar that might convert failure into success, to keep themsevles 

 warm. 



Do you feed without racks, in a muddy barnyard? Then the dollar 

 that might make you successful is daily tramped into the mud. 



Do you feed your cows nothing but hay and straw in winter and keep 

 them on a short pasture half the summer ? Then you neglect to put a 

 dollar into the expense scale that might put two or five into the income scale. 



Do you feed your corn fodder in warm weather and bran while 

 your cattle are upon the aftermath of a rich clover field? You will very 

 likely conclude that it does not pay to cut up corn or to buy bran to feed 

 cows. 



Do you keep a huge bull-dog or a poorly trained shepherd that 

 " brings the cows " at your bidding? And do the animals frequently come 

 to the barn with high heads and bleeding heels? " Shoot the dog." For 

 these cows are locomotive animals that get up steam by a combustion of 

 butter material, and every unnecessary step, every motion beyond what is 

 essential for the health of the animal, cuts oiF a portion from the butter 

 yield, and from your income. 



Does a frequent, vigorous, and improper use of the milking stool, or of 

 the toe of your cowhide, or of the manure fork, or even of your fist, keep 

 the cows in constant fear of you ? By every excitement that causes the 

 blood to flow faster in the veins of the cow, by every infliction of pain, and 

 even by every cause of fear, the draft of the furnace is opened wider, and 

 brighter glow the fires that are fed with butter. 



Do you set your milk in small shallow pans? Then if you succeed 

 financially you are doing so in spite of a large amount of useless labor. 



Does the temperature of the milk in your dairy room, in the warm 

 days of summer, often get as high as 70° ? Then you are losing enough 

 every year to supply yourself with better dairy appliances. 



Do you warm your cream by guess in winter, and cool it by guess in 

 summer ? Do you guess at the amount of butter taken from the churn and 

 guess at the amount of salt required ? Then I guess that the quality of 



