p2 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



If we had perfect milk we would have to have a new score card. I wish 

 sometimes I had milk enough out of Clover Farm to make butter of, to 

 see what I could do, but the fact is I do not have enough to supply my 

 customers. 



Now with feeding sileage. I think wherever there is any odor in 

 the milk, any way that you can detect that sileage is anywhere in the 

 vicinity — sound sileage — that the milk absorbs it after it is taken from 

 the cow. I am positive of that. I have followed it for four months. 

 When I first commenced shipping my certified milk to Chicago I did not 

 dare to feed sileage. I did not know how it would do for milk for con- 

 sumption. So the first winter I fed the cows that were producing milk 

 for this enterprise dry food, and the balance of the herd I fed sileage. 



Afterwards, I had a sample of this milk brought daily from these two 

 stables to my home, and had it put on the table marked so that I knew 

 which was which, to see if my family could detect the difference, but 

 they could not. I put my wife an d daughter on their metal and wanted 

 to know which was which, and they passed judgment. There was scarce- 

 ly a time all winter that the sileage milk didn't come out ahead. I don't 

 think it was over two or three times that they detected the difference in 

 all the four months, and then they picked out the dry feed for the better 

 milk of the two. This' was as practicable as possible to do with sileage. 

 There is more danger in feeding it. Now I am getting to my subject. 



Some of the essential points for producing high grade milk are venti- 

 lating, sanitary conditions, light. Every cow stable should have a sys- 

 tem of ventilation. There is just as much necessity for it as having our 

 own dwellings ventilated, because they are more compact. Most of our 

 houses could do without as much ventilation as we get, because the doors 

 are opened quite frequently and the air gets in in that way, but the cow's 

 stable is filled up usually. The id ea of filling up the stable with only area 

 -enough for the cow to stand is all wrong; it wants to be thrown over- 

 "board immediately. Just bu-ild a stable so you have enough room for your 

 cows and have a system of ventilation and you will have air all the time. 

 One of the nicest compliments was from Dr. Franklin, who told a lady 



