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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



As you probably know I am doing experimental work with the dairy 

 herd in the Minnesota Dairy School, and I have brought out some facts 

 of the comparative merits of the two types of cows and endorse every- 

 thing that has been said on that point. 



The dtiry cow is a wonderful producing animal. It seems at times 

 almost impossible the amount she will get out of food, and yet our records 

 have been kept carefully, and never any feed given but what a record has 

 been made of it, so we know practically what the animals are doing for us. 



Why I endorse everything that has been said in regard to the dairy 

 cow is because I am a great friend of the dairy type cow and know some- 

 thing about what she can do. The dairy type cow will earn $30.00 to 

 $35.00 more annually net than the other cow. Just think what this 

 means. You are milking a million in this state. How much this would 

 mean in addition to what they do get, or could get with the ordinary cow. 



But in connection with this work there has come out some other 

 things that are really of more importance to the average dairy man, to 

 the average dairy farmer. We have been told this afternoon that we 

 should have the dairy bred cow, the thorough bred pig, hog and calf. I 

 say, ym, if you have the thorough bred man to take care of them. It is 

 only under the special care that these animals will bring the returns that 

 we show in our records. Sometimes I think that this common cow that 

 we find on the western prairies has adjusted herself to the peculiar kind 

 of a beast that she is; that she has just about squarred herself with the 

 average western farmer. I think there is a good deal in that. These 

 thoroughbreds that we are speaking of are animals that have squarred 

 themselves with men who understand these things and they produced 

 these high producers because of the intelligence and special interest of 

 these breeders. 



Now, would these animals do anywhere near as well if they were 

 handed over to the happy-go-lucky, thoughtless, every day farmer of the 

 west? Sometimes I think that she would not do as well as the common 

 cow in doing for him. She has adjusted herself to the kind of treatment 

 that he gives. That is heresy, isn't it? That's talking backsliding. I 

 don't know about that. I believe in making subjects and giving thoughts 

 along the lines that are practical and possible for farmers to follow. 



