ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 233 



To come a little closer to my facts, here are three cows 

 from the University. Where we are situated we buy in small 

 lots. We are paying $22, $23 and $24 for bran. We have to buy 

 small lots and it makes feed expensive. There is not a farmer 

 in the state but who can feed his cow cheaper with three-quar- 

 ters of the effort than we do, because he only need charge her 

 what he can sell it for, instead of charging jobbers prices. 



Primrose was a little older, has fairly narrow shoulders, 

 great big bread basket and a pretty good udder. She is a dairy 

 looking type of cow and she gave us $1.82 for every $1, and 

 another cow that was a little past her best days several years ago 

 gave $1.57 for every $1 worth of feed. 



There should be a fair margin in feeding and caring for the 

 cows on the farm. There are not very many farms where there 

 are not one or two cows that are not paying for their feed. A 

 little study on the part of the owner will discover which one 

 that cow is. If you have a boy 15 or 18 years old, there is 

 nothing that will do more to interest him and help to keep him 

 on the farm than to put him at this problem. 



A young fellow came to the dairy school one winter. He 

 wanted to get away from the farm as soon as he could. Because 

 they w^ere keeping some cows at home, he took the dairy work, 

 and when I visited him a year later, I saw a sheet of paper on 

 the side. ''That's not for you to see" he informed me, but my 

 curiosity w^as aroused. He was keeping a record of his cows. 

 He was finding out what his cows were doing, and I thought 

 several of the poorer cows would get out, and his herd would be 

 a little better. He had received his start through a better knowl- 

 edge of dairying. 



There are lots of you wdio have children who can attend to 

 weighing the milk one day in a month, one night and morning, 

 multiply it by the number of days in the month, and next month 

 do the same, and you will have better results in knowing what 

 you art doing. Compare it w4th the returns at the factory, and 

 if you have not made any mistakes, you will find they do not 

 disagree very much, and you will have found out something that 



