ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



average farmer wants is a good cow that will produce from 

 three to five hundred pounds of butter a year, and this he can 

 have by breeding Jersey cattle and their grades. We might 

 pile up documents as high as this building to show what Jerseys 

 and their grades have produced in this country right amongst 

 you, and what they have done they can do again. 



Speaking of the quantity of milk that a cow gives we do not 

 claim that the Jersey cow is a very large milker, but I have 

 2-year-old heifers of my own breeding that will give their own 

 weight in milk in twenty-one days. I consider that a pretty 

 good yield. Also some young cows that have produced over 14 

 pounds of butter in seven days. Several have done that at 2 

 years old, (at 24 months old.) That is when they come in 

 profit, they come in profit with us at about two years. 



I have a friend who is a first-class dairyman if there are any 

 in the country, but he has always managed his dairy this way: 

 He never raises calves, but always goes out and picks out his 

 cows, and he knows how to pick out good ones. He carried 

 on his dairy in that way producing a very large sum of money 

 from the number of cows he milked every year, a very success- 

 ful dairyman, usualy milking from thirty to fifty cows. I was 

 quite familiar with him, and I kept poking at him all the time 

 to get some Jersey cows. I knew that if a practical man like 

 him had some Jersey cows he would make a mark in the dairy 

 one that a great many of you would have to mount pretty high 

 to approach. I kept poking at him for a long time about 

 Jerseys. One day he came to my house and there were some 

 other gentlemen there taking away some cattle I had sold them, 

 and he said to me, "about what will you take for that heifer ?" I 

 said so much. Well, he said, "send her home." She was 

 about eight months old at this time, that was about a year and 

 a half ago. A short time ago he came in to see me, and he 

 says, "Boyd, that little heifer that you sold me has had a calf." 

 " Well," I said, " it is pretty early isn't it ? " " Yes, twenty-one 

 months old." Said he, " she is the best cow I have in my barn." 

 I looked at him in surprise, because I thought he was trying to 



