122 ILLTNOIvS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCTATIOiN. 



Mr. Monrad: The Professor said yesterday he didn't be- 

 lieve in too much roughage; he hasn't told us about the cow 

 that the gentleman who visited his stable found eating 

 shavings. , 



Prof. Haecker: I was very much embarrassed by that 

 incident, and I can not account for it to this day. I think old 

 Sweet Briar wanted to get a joke on me. 



Mr. Hostetter: How about the importance of the tem- 

 perature of this calf's food? 



Prof. Haecker: It is very important that it should be 

 at least 98 Fahrenheit, about the temperature of the mother's 

 milk, and as long as you feed milk. Another thing, which i*? 

 as important as this, and that is the regularity as to the time; 

 always feed about the same time and be sure as to the quan- 

 tity. You have no idea how irregularity of this kind will 

 disarrange that little stomach. We weigh all the food. The 

 calf has no judgment; it will take too much if you give it to it. 



Mr. AYest: Do you feed the male calf the same as the 

 heifer calf? 



Prof. Haecker: We teach the beef calf to take grain just 

 as quickly as w^e can. We teach it to eat meal early and give it 

 all it can take with ground oats and ground corn. Of course 

 I mean the beef animal; the male dairy animal we feed the 

 same as the heifer dairy calf, and it is duplicate of the female; 

 spare and lean. Never buy a level-backed full-backed dairy 

 sire, because he isn't good. Get as thin hams as you can, as 

 sharp across the withers as possible and as clean a shoulder 

 as you can ; never mind about the yellow skin or the fine hair, 

 or any of those details that they talk about as being desirable 

 points in the dairy animal, or the black tail or the amber- 

 colored horns ; it is all nonsense. 



Mr. Wyman: In the case of the Jersey, isn't it perfer- 

 able to get the black tongue and the black switch? 



Prof. Haecker : If you like that kind, yes. 



Mr. Wyman: If you are breeding for selling in the 

 market and you can get those points in connection with the 

 other points, isn't it a good thing? 



Prof. Haecker: Yes; they are desirable in the scale of 

 points. With registered Jerseys you must fill in that blank 



