40 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



ten years. This would do away with the wholesale cow killing that is 

 going on in the Elgin district. 



Mr. Newman: We have a paper on this program giving us these very 

 subjects, and I expect we will hear how to make first-class milk and 

 large quantities of it, and how he has not had to use his farm yet and 

 leave the vicinity. 



DAIRY COWS AND HOW TO CARE FOR THEM TO 

 GET THE BEST RESULTS. 



C. P. GOODRICH, FT. ATCHISON, WIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I have the privilege once more of talking about a dairy cow. I always 

 feel good talking about the dairy cow, that is, if they like to hear me. 

 When I talk to an audience that don't like a dairy cow, that hates the 

 sight of one, I can tell by the way they look. But I have got into a differ- 

 ent kind of an audience here and I know it. 



The most profitable dairy cow is that that can consume and digest 

 and turn into milk a large amount of food, saving only just enough for 

 herself to sustain her own life and strength. 



Cows in their original natural state were just like other animals. 

 The cow produced just milk enough to sustain the young, thats' nature. 

 She gives milk just as long as the young require it — which is only six or 

 seven months — that's nature. Then she ceases giving milk, and if she 

 had sufficient food, she began to lay on flesh ready for some future time, 

 or if short of food, then partial starvation. So you see, the cow, by na- 

 ture, is made to give milk and make meat. 



But man took hold of the cow. One' set of men saw her capacity for 

 giving milk, and that milk was good human food, and they undertook to 



