LLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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she is famished. The trouble with nine-tenths of the cows is they are 

 hungry and will fill up suddenly and the trouble comes. 



Mr. Glover. — A year ago I was called by a certain farmer to his 

 place who had a sick baby, for they seem to think I can doctor babies as 

 well as cows. I went to examine the trouble' and went into the herd and 

 knew what the man was feeding — 10 to 12 pounds of corn meal, and not 

 a cow but what was out of order. The illness of the baby was caused by 

 the illness of the cow, which was not producing healthy milk. He chang- 

 ed to condensed milk and today that baby is a nice looking boy. 



Mr. Latzer. — Was the cause due to feeding too much or changing too 

 quickly? 



Mr. Glover. — He fed altogether too much corn — 10 or 12 pounds corn 

 meal alone, not mixed, and fed 40 pounds silage and all the corn stover 

 they could eat. A corn ration and when feeding corn meal alone that 

 should have been mixed with hay to mix it up. It seems to me that was 

 the cause of it. They had been on that ration and this was in June 

 when I was consulted about it. Feeding too much corn. 



Q. — It is not enough to merely place feed before the cows, but it is 

 the farmer's duty to see she has enough and not too much, you mean? 



A. — Just has two feedings. 



By the President. — The fact I brought out in my address is we 

 should have this gentleman go 'round and give lessons on the farm. We 

 get it in our papers and it goes to a few hundred of farms and many 

 never hear a word of it. 



MAKING THE BEST GRADE OF MILK. 



Address by H. B. Gurler, DeKalb, III. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I don't know whether the Secretary put that just right, " The Best 

 Grade of Milk." Perhaps he should have put it " A Better Grade of Milk." 

 We cannot all get up to that standard of making the best grade of milk; 



