72. ILLINOIS STATE DAIEYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



Thuesday, 1:S0 P. M. 



Convention called to order as per adjournment. On 

 motion it was voted to take up Topic No. 15, " The best 

 feed, quality and quantity, at the different seasons of the 

 year, for cows from which butter is the chief product 

 desired." 



Peof. F. H. Hall said this was an interesting ques- 

 tion, as nioc)t of our common foods are either fat or flesh 

 formers. Had made some experiments this year. It 

 requires two pounds of flesh and six pounds of fat formers 

 to sustain life ; we must then feed beyond this point to get 

 either growth or profit. Red Clover is a flesh former and 

 is as three to seven as a fat former: it was nearly as one 

 to two; he could not get exactly the right proportion; 

 changed his feed to oats and corn meal; was off* two pounds 

 per day in yield. In winter a cow will eat as two to ten of 

 flesh and fat formers; Timothy hay has just about these 

 proportions, but cows could not eat and digest enough hay 

 to produce what we desire. 



Clover hay has an excess of flesh former; so has bran; 

 and should not be fed together. Oil meal is a great flesh 

 former; corn meal is as sixteen to twenty-eight; corn 

 fodder is rich just as corn is; clover and corn fodder go 

 hand in hand; cows will often crave for oat straw, because 

 it is a fat former and should be fed with clover; could tell 

 just how much must be added to oat straw to make it just 

 as good as Timothy hay. Had experimented as to sweet 

 corn; his milk grew poorer and poorer; stopped the corn 

 fodder and all was right again; kept the Jerseys; liked 

 them best. 



D. C. Scofield wanted to know if any experiments 



