ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 3! 



If you don't want to make butter, you can sell your milk if made as 

 I have indicated here. You have a man around here in Illinois who sells 

 milk at 12 cents a quart in the Chicago market, when most of the men 

 at the milk stations are getting $1.40 a hundred pounds at this time when 

 it is scarce; quite a difference from 12 cents a quart — at least that's what 

 they are geting in my section. Could Mr. Gurler get 12 cents a quart if 

 he was not giving a good article? This man I sold the butter to came to 

 my house and I asked him how he could pay me the price. He said: 

 "Price cuts no figure. There are hundreds of people in every city who 

 haxe nothing to do under the sun except to think what they would like 

 to eat, and when they find what they want the price cuts no figure. ' So 

 lets work for a good article, there's lots of room on top. 



There has been lots said about large cows and little cows. I don't 

 know which is best. Some people think there is more profit in large 

 cows, and some in little cows. It isn't the amount of feed you give a 

 cow that is going to give you the most profit. It is the amount that 

 cow can assimilate. If the cow is giving 40 pounds of milk a day, and if 

 you feed her 40 pounds silage, 10 pounds grain feed, and you go and 

 double her feed she isn't going to give double the amount of milk. 

 She will give just as much in return as she can assimilate, the rest of 

 the food is wasted; yes! more. It injures the cow. 



I have here two cows. A Holste'in cow called Meg. You have heard 

 at her probably. The Canadian people have just simply lauded that cow. 

 She did nobly at first; weighed 1262 pounds; and another Hoistein cow, 

 Mercedes, that weighed 951 pounds. The first cow, Meg, ate $34.00 worth 

 of feed and made 282.61 pounds of estimated butter that was worth $70.71, 

 or 900 pounds milk solids at 9 cents a pound or $81.00, a difference of 

 $11.00 between butter and milk solids on that cow. 



Mercedes ate $32.00 worth of feed and made 288.34 pounds estimated 

 butter worth $72.08, or 943.43 solids worth $84.90. The large cow, Meg, 

 gained only 27 pounds more than did the small cow, in flesh, at 3c per 

 pound or 87 cents. But the little cow made more milk solids yet she con- 



