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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



into consideration the grain in their silage. We have no corn 

 ensilage only clear sorghum. 



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— What else do you feed 



: — Feeding millet hay. 

 -No clover? 

 -No sir, no clover. 



-What grain ration are you using? 

 -Cotton seed meal and corn meal until this week. Boys 

 are going to have half oats and corn meal ground together and 

 feed 3 pounds cotton seed meal and — 

 ^ : — Not feeding bran ? 



A : — No sir, can't afford it. You people dov/n here you get 

 the cheapest source of protein in Illinois today in your oil meal 

 and in connection with your dry feeds and the best source of 

 concentrated feed. 



O: — Providing you don't feed too much? 



A : — Yes sir, the protein content of your oil meal is not cost- 

 ing you over four cents. 



O : — How many cows in your herd ? 



A : — Thirty cows in milk. 



Q : — And how many acres ? 



A: — We have a lot 75. 



O : — How many acres do you supply that herd from ? 



A: — Well, I can't tell you. Three years ago we had 110 

 Jerseys and we had 110 acres available land and kept 10 horses 

 and raised 100 pigs, but since that time it has been reduced. We 

 have 75 now and cut 20 acres of sorghum and corn, shelling 10 

 acres of corn and putting sorghum in the silo and it will be 

 more than the cattle will eat. 



Q : — What do you estimate the interest that brings you on 

 your land that you have been cultivating?: 



A : — I have not figured that up, but that land is being held 

 at $100 an acre. We are selling $6,000 worth of products from 

 that farm in a year. 



Q : — Does it all go into dairy products? 



A: — No sir, $1,500 worth of hogs, that is dairy product 



