ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. I i i 



ing too maii}^ averages. There is too much room on the top. Get 

 as much as you can. 



A member. Q : — You have not touched on the feed at all. 

 What is the best ration for that style of cow in this locality ? 



A : — If I was going to try and produce good milk here I 

 would feed bran about 10 pounds a day. I would feed al30ut 2 

 pounds cotton seed meal a day. I would feed about 10 pounds of 

 clover hay or cow pea hay, and what other feeds that I had in 

 proportion, but ensilage and clover or cow pea hay with bran 

 and cotton seed meal make a very good ration. 



O : — No corn in it at all ? 



A : — Corn, yes, if you have it. Lots of farmers of this coun- 

 try <lon't produce enough corn. He ought to, as far as possible, 

 feed w4iat he raises. 



By the President : — This is turning into our subject of this 

 afternoon, and it will come out then in the feed of the animal, 

 and as our time is getting short this morning we will have to 

 pass on. Remember those questions this afternoon. 



If any one here would drop a card to the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture he can get the statistics for this cow, 

 under the heads of the breeds of dairy cattle. The government 

 gives out a pamphlet. 



By the President : — You have perfect liberty to write to 

 Champaign and free to have the bulletins that are issued to be sent 

 to you by mail. You pay your taxes and that is what you pay 

 them for. It is your state, it doesn't belong to people outside 

 of this state. Drop a card to Prof. Davenport or Prof. Fraser 

 or Washington to the Department of Agriculture. 



Is Mr. B. C. Settles of Palmyra, Mo., here? He was to talk 

 on the building up of a profitable dairy herd.. 



We will pass on to the next paper. 



By the President : — The next on the program is ''My Dairy 

 Herd and What I Have Accomplished" by J. N. Wiggins of 



