IIO ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A : — In Iowa that illustration between the two Durhams ap- 

 peals to them so strong that they won't question it because I find 

 in Iowa they have lots of corn and a pretty good class of Dur- 

 hams and the people up there I find milk a kind of a dual purpose 

 animal, but it costs 20 to 40 to 100 more to care for that kind of 

 animals than a special purpose animal. 



O : — It requires more skill to feed a dual purpose animal than 

 a special cow? 



A : — Yes sir. 



O : — To keep her producing properly ? 



A: — Yes sir. It is just the same as taking a race horse; it 

 takes more skill to get the best out of a race horse ; lots of people 

 like a good race horse and I am not saying anything against a 

 good horse. It takes a skilled driver to develop a first class race 

 horse to get the best speed, and it is the same with the cow. You 

 get a first-class animal, her capacities are so great if you treat her 

 right. It is like the man who is running his automobile at 75 

 miles an hour, he is laible to have a wreck ; he has got to be very 

 careful. 



O : — What's the average amount of milk given by a cow 

 through the state of Illinois ? 



A : — A little over 3,000 pounds. 



Q : — What would you consider the paying quantity ? 



A : — All you can get. A paying quantity I should say ought 

 to be 7, 8, 10, 12 and if you can get 15 or 20 — all you can get. 

 AVe are just now trying to de\^elop the dairy cow the same as w^e 

 started to develop the trotting horse forty years ago. 



O : — What do you mean, you said it was five times as large 

 as it used to be, and now you say 3,000 average today. 



A : — That is the average I understand. 



By the President : — That was in the census of 1000. 



A : — When we talk of average we want to understand that 

 is what we have got. I remember of reading a couple of years 

 ago of a saying that if the dairymen would wake up and find one- 

 third of the cows dead — the poorest one-third — that the dairy- 

 men would be better ofT, and I believe that is so. We are work- 



