ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. I IQ. 



The average farmer is not going to get a thoroughbred cow. If he 

 did, he would not know how to take care of it. These men with common 

 cows want to know what to do, and what do I tell them? I tell them I 

 have now some thirty or more of these common scrubs, and have yet to 

 find a cow that didn't pay in the dairy under proper handling and man- 

 agement. Isn't that an encouraging word to the farmer that has common 

 cows? He will say, " Why, now here is something that we can take hold 

 of. This man says he has weighed every pound of food; that he knows 

 exactly what his cows have done, and has yet to find a cow that is not 

 profitable in the dairy." 



I go down some counties and visit the farmers from creamery to 

 creamery and they all have the common cow. I go down to Freeborn 

 county and still find the common cow, the common farmer. I can travel 

 al over that state and find nothing else. Here and there there may be a 

 few animals that are dairy breeds, and, let me tell you, there are not as 

 many as there were ten years ago, and I am very sorry to admit it. We 

 have during the past decade been using the common cow in Minnesota. 



Twelve years ago, as you all know, the southern part of that state was 

 in debt, terribly in debt. Where are our farmers now? Paid the mort- 

 gage, sent their young people to school, gone up into Canada and bought 

 a large tract of land, all with this common cow. These facts we might 

 just as well meet. This common cow has made money for them. Why? 

 They were in a pretty hard row of stumps. They gave her plenty of feed; 

 milked her regularly; got the best for her that they knew of. If you do 

 the same, I think you will get similar results. 



BACTERIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION OF M1LK. 



By Prof. H. L. Russell, University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I shall try and make my remarks very brief. The subject which I 

 have been asked to speak on is in regard to the bacteriological contamina- 



