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LLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



you did not know before. The future farmer has got to do this. 

 There is no business on earth where the margin of profit is so 

 big as to the man who conducts a farm business and there is 

 no business on earth where the man knows as httle about it and 

 what he is doing as in the dairy business. A banker or a mer- 

 cantile house that didn't know more about their business than the 

 dairyman knows of his would have to shut up right away. Even 

 men running creameries don't have enough margin of profit 

 that they can do business the way we farmers do. 



Suggestions on Care and Feed. — Have some oats and peas, 

 sweet corn, sorghum, early planted field corn, other forage crops, 

 or left over silage, to supplement pastures in dry time. 



Allow the cows in a darkened shed or barn in fly time. 



Keep the cows out of the stalk field in winter. Cut the com 

 and feed fodder in the stable or yard. 



Shelter from raw winds, even on bright days in the winter. 



Feed a combination of feeds from the following lists, at least 

 one from each rather than only one or two from either, and that 

 corn, and com stover or timothy hay. 



I II 



corn alfalfa hay 



corn stover bran 



corn silage clover hay 



millet hay cow pea hay 



oat straw cotton seed meal 



sorghum hay gluten meal 



timothy hay linseed meal 



wheat straw oats 



soy beans 



Since the feeds in the first column are rich in fat and heat 

 producing material, and especially poor in protein, which is 

 absolutely necessary for milk production, and the feeds in the 

 second column are all much richer in protein, a larger yield of 

 milk will be secured when a combination of feeds from the two 

 groups is fed.^ 



