ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. g^ 



A. It may be odor from sound food that the milk will absorb and be 

 objectionable. 



Q. What I v/ant to get at is this, is the milk tainted from the food 

 the cow eats? 



A. I don't think any sound food that a cow consumes taints the milk 

 through the cow. The taint comes from the outside after the milk is 

 taken from the cow. 



Q. In feeding sileage — the condensing factory refused the milk — 

 now it does not spoil the milk. If the air takes it up after it comes from 

 the cow, that milk is spoiled by the atmosphere in the barn. 



Mr. Dietz: I wish you would tell us how you get the laborers to ob- 

 serve these rules? 



A. I have had a world of trouble this last year to get good help. I 

 have not figured in dollars and cents, but It is hard to get. I have had to 

 make frequent changes, and you know it is not to the interest of the cow. 

 Once in a great while you will find a man so constituted that he can milk 

 a row of cows and get better results than the man that had been milking 

 there. I have done that, but they are very very scarce that will do that. 



Mr. Mason: What portion of the day do you turn them out and for 

 how long? ' 



A. It depends on the Weather. We let the cow pretty nearly have 

 her own way in that. If it is pleasant we let them stay out several hours, 

 but if it is bad stormy weather, just long enough to put the stable in con- 

 dition. I let the cow have her own way about that. Sometimes the cow 

 will stay out when it is better for her to be in, but that usually depends 

 on the comforts in the stalls in the barn. 



M. Harvey: What special kind of breed? 



A. The good individual cow is good enough for me. I have all sorts 

 of blood in my stable. Jerseys, Guernseys, Short Horns, but it is the in- 

 dividuality of the animal. If I didn't have enough to see to, I should 

 take up som.e dairy breed and breed registered cattle, but have all I can 

 look after, to attend to my specia Ity of milk, so I cannot do that. 



Q. Do I understand from this gentleman here who spoke that the 



