156 ILLINOIS STATE^DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I think it takes good milkers to make good cows, and I 

 have been troubled a good deal in getting good milkers. 



Now, about these Ayrshire cattle: These herds of cattle 

 we hear so much about, that have made so much money to their 

 owners, I notice their owners always have such cattle to sell; 

 they have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars out all over the 

 country to make these tests, and get big records, and get money 

 out of them, and consequently you hear a ^reat deal about these 

 large cows and very little about Ayrshire cows, because no- 

 body has brought any here to sell and that is one reason why 

 very few people are posted on Ayrshire cattle. 



Now, in regard to thefeeding: I know a Holstein cow is a 

 good milker; I also know that she will consume more food 

 than an Ayrshire, but the Ayrshire is machine made up with a 

 capacity very strongly developed to turn her feed into milk, and 

 I have cows to-day that I can't give them feed enough to make 

 them look well; the feed will not go to fat but to milk. 



There is another quality that the Ayrshire cows have got, 

 they will milk a long length of time, in fact I am sorry to say 

 that I have got some cows that my men say they could not dry 

 up at all before they come in again. They are not a class of 

 cattle that will give a big flow of milk for one or two months 

 and then fail, at least that is not my experience with them. I 

 believe I have told yout nearly all there is about an Ayrshire 

 cow that would be likely to interest you. 



Song, "Oh, Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie "-J. G. Lumbard. 



THE JERSEY COW. 



The Secretary: "It has been agreed as a preamble to the 

 introduction of the Jersey cow subject that a few paragraphs of an 

 able paper from Mr. Dean be read. I am sorry Mr. Dean, who 

 is so well qualified to do ample justice to this worthy subject, is 

 not here in person to tell you the merits of the Little Queen of 

 the churn. That has been her name for years. While the con- 

 test has been active and there have been very strenuous efforts to 



