ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 85 



TThis is the cow Roce (shows picture of Rose), the best cow. You will 

 fiiotice she is a dairy cow all over, if we know anything about the dairy 

 form. She is no beef cow. She is a spare cow and a very good cow, 

 if you know what a cow ought to be like — deep through the chest and 

 thick through the chest, and she is a cow of very great constitution and 

 has very fair development of udder. 



Nora (shows picture) is not nearly so good and like the cow, not 

 nearly as deep through her, and has not got as good a development of ud- 

 der as we would expect from the amount of milk she gave. 



Maud (shows picture), she is not of the beef type you will notice. 

 2^ot inclined to beef at all, but a spare cow. That is a mistake that is 

 frequently made, comparing beef cows to the dairy cows and it is unjust 

 to the dairy cow. Take cows that do not have a tendency to beef and 

 .compare them with beef cattle and of course they do not compare favor- 

 .ably in size. 



It is the object of these experiments to show the efficiency of dairy 

 fCows and compare them. 



Mr. Hostetter: Now those horns may cut more of a figure. Did the 

 .cows all run together? 



A. They were not out more than an hour or two each. Rose with 

 horns is a very quiet, gentle cow. That would not cut much figure with 

 the feeding, and also only out an hour or two and were allowed to lie 

 down in the barn. 



Mr. Gurler: Where were they fed? 



A. Always fed in the barn and watered in the barn. 



Q. Do those cuts represent the animals themselves? 



A. They represent the animals exactly. They were taken from 

 photographs. 



Mr. Cooper: I presume those cows were all mature cows and were 

 all fresh about the same time? 



A. That is a very important thing. The cow Nora and Maud calved 

 only one day apart, and Rose six weeks previously, and this test did 

 mot commence until ten days after calving. This matter of the period 



