o 2 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



butter per annum dairymen must feed a narrower ration, as the product 

 above maintenance is doubled, requiring twice as much protein above 

 maintenance, or 2.7 pounds of protein per day as against 1.7 pounds, The 

 200 pound cow got enough carbohydrates to feed the 400 pound cow, but 

 lacked the protein. One uses a ratio of 1:10, the other 1:5. 



So far we have spoken only of the dairy cows used as strictly 

 dairy cows up to her capacity. As many dairymen in this part of the 

 state milk their cows two or three years, feed them to fatten and selling 

 them and then replace them with fresh cows, they try to select cows of 

 the beef type tendencies., so as to get their money back when ready to 

 sell. Let us then turn to the animal chart again and examine the beef 

 type and dairy types in form and circulation of blood. "When they have 

 the beef type and dairy type combined, then the product will be divided 

 into meat and milk. As we have staled before, milk is made only to the 

 amount of protein in tne reed ot the cow, while body gain may be lean 

 meat or wholly fat. 



Feeding too wide a ration, too much carbohydrates and fat for milk 

 production, will only make tallow in the beef cow. It may be stored on 

 the back, inside or outside of the ribs. Yet it is only worth 3 cents per 

 pound in the market, while butter is worth 20 cents. This cow may make 

 200 pounds of butter per annum for two years 'and 100 pounds body fat; 

 400 pounds of butter, $80.00; 200 pounds body fat, $6.00, that helped to 

 bring her cost price, $50.00. A 1250 pound cow at 4 cents gross, dressed 

 500 pounds; of this 150 pounds is bone and waste, 200 pounds tallow, 150 

 lean table meat, having a wholesale value of about $25.00, a 50 per cent 

 loss to the slaughter house to be made up from the high quality steers 

 and other products. Would it not to better to have a 300 pound per an- 

 num butter cow at a $100.00 value, teed her more protein and less corbo- 

 hydrates; a ration balanced to her production, and milk her ten. years. 

 You would lose $10.00 a year on her and gain $20.00 a year and make less 

 poor beef, less tallow for oleomargarine products, and help raise the dairy 

 ww's capacity to 400 pounds per r.nnum of butter, or its equivalent in 



