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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



BUILDING UP A DAIRY HERD. 



PROF. ERASER FOR PROF. KENNEDY OF URBANA, ILL. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



As I am on the program agaia today I will endeavor to make my re- 

 marks as short as possible, although I think this is one of the most im- 

 portant subjects on the program, the establishing of the dairy herd and 

 doing it properly. 



Dairymen do not realize, I think, the great differences in cows. 

 That is one of the most important things of cows, in establishing a dairy 

 herd and so I have a few figures from some grade cows we have at the 

 university that I would like to show you first. 



We had three grade cows and we fed them for a week or two to 

 see how much they would consume naturally. Rose and Nora con- 

 sumed about alike, and the other one only ate two-thirds as much. It 

 it not frequent that two cows will consume the same amount of food, 

 although for the two or three weeks these cows did. 









ROSE 



NORA 





MAUD 













Milk 









Milk 1 ( 









Milk 



tat 





Ratio 



b'SLt 



Ratio 





Ratio Fat! Ratio 









lbs. 



lbs. 



lbs. 



N-R 



lbs. 



N-R 



lbs. 



M-R ilbs. 



M-R 



4 vv^k.E.June26 



1207 



55 



871 



1.4 



29 



1.9 



665 



1.8 



27 



2.0 



11 



" " Sept. 



11 



3081 



136 



2322 



1.3 



82 



1.7 



1783 



1.8 



68 



2 



11 



" " Nov. 



27 



2336 



123 



1759 



1.3 



71 



1.7 



1284 



1.8 



62 



2.0 



5 



" " Jan. 



1 



768 



40 



566 



1.4 



24 



1.7 



455 



1.7 



22 2.0 



Total 



7392 



354 



5518 





206 





4187 



'179' 



Q. Were th«> cows the same weight? 



A. They did not differ very much. 



Q. What breed? 



A. Grade cows. 



Q. What kind of grade? 



A. The dairy type, no beef qualities about them at all. 



