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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



weighing tub was weighed to see the difference in weight of dirt from 

 an unwashed and washed udder. We had about 15 of each. The average 

 amount of dirt from unwashed udder was 30 times as much as after it was 

 washed. When the udder was just somewhat soiled, as udders usually 

 are, there were 16 times from the unwashed to the washed. When par- 

 ticularly clean it was iy 2 times as much. That shows the advantage of 

 washing the udders especially when the udders are very dirty. 



Mr. Gurler. — Now, in my first work for producing certified milk, I 

 would not feed ensilage, not a feed of it, I did not dare to. I had 

 experimented with silage and had made a high flavored butter. So we 

 experimented all one winter. I had samples brought to my family from 

 butter made where silage was fed and otherwise, and they usually picked 

 out the silage butter for the best nearly every time. And now I find no 

 trouble in feeding sound silage to my cows. You might just as well say 

 dried fruit is better than canned feed. If you put up a silo as you 

 ought to, you have canned feed and it is superior to dry feed. 



Mr. Stewart. — You made a misstatement about the cows being tied 

 up. Thirty years ago I built a barn, 80 cows, 6 feet for two, cement floor 

 and had a drop.. They were tied by the neck so they could go back and 

 forward. The difficulty was they will not get rid of droppings because 

 they go back and forward. Ayrshire cows have short teats and not long 

 hanging ones. They would trample on those teats and hurt them. Three 

 years with cement floors, and then put them in stanchions and put six 

 cows in every sixteen feet. It isn't very close and I haven't lost as 

 many teats off my cows as when three feet apiece or over. I have found 

 the wider you have the stall the more apt they are to lose their teats. 



Mr. Gurler. — You can account for it, the cow has got to lay down like 

 I don't know what, with her feet all under her. 



Mr. Stewart. — She did just as well and kept as well. 



Mr. Gurler. — She seemed to. 



Mr. Stewart. — I can't tell the difference. 



Mr. Gurler.— Why not put in stalls, with individual stalls It may be 

 a little more expense, but it is cleaner where you line up the rear in 

 place of the front. It won't be more than $1.50 to a cow and I don't 

 know whether it will be that. 



