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LLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



No. 38 milked 365 days of the year, 3,800 pounds milk, 184 

 pounds of fat. The difference between the cost of feed and re- 

 turn was .^^. Mow then that cow is a registered Jersey. This 

 cow is a registered Jersey. What's the lesson? Registration 

 don't amount to anything. The cow does the work, not the reg- 

 istration. You may have a scrub Jersey and you may have a good 

 Jersey. Don't let registration take precedence, that is not what 

 produces milk. It is the style and character of the cow, her abil- 

 ity to eat the food and convert it into milk. It is better than 

 breeding or color. When it comes to producing another cow from 

 her, then the question as to breeding is of vital importance. 



Here is a grade cow% two of them. No. 20 had $15 profit, 

 Ko. 37 had $6, and yet No. 37 made nearly 1,000 pounds more 

 milk than the other one. 



This man is selling butter fat to the creamery. To you 

 then the question of milk is all you are interested in. 



Here we have a couple of cows that did not pay for the feed 

 they ate; wouldn't supply the man even with cigars. He was 

 $3.77 in the hole. 



The point I claim is here: If these two men had killed 

 those two cows and dragged them in the woods and let them rot 

 they would have been better to him in the end of the year, than 

 to have- kept these two cows. They would- have their feed to 

 give to other cows and saved the labor of caring for them. All 

 they would have been out would have been the manure. At the 

 end of the year they would have been better off without them. 

 But it is not necessary to get rid of your cows in that manner, 

 you can always get a little for them. 



I think we should know more accurately just what our cows 

 are doing. It will pay to do it. It doesn't take very much time, 

 and only a little bit of backbone or nerve to get up or something 

 like that. 



In the same community where these observations were going 

 on were 58 farmers delivering milk to a creamery. Twenty-one 

 cows averaged $54, 32 cows averaged $22. Look down the line, 

 out of 58 farmers there were about 14 or 15 averaged less returns 



