I2 6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Two of the highest salaried and most successful men we have in 

 Iowa are termed "cranks" by many of their patrons; but their butter 

 sells for one cent above, and we can stand a little crankiness in a man who 

 produces first class goods and especially when his butter sells for one cent 

 above. 



All theories and rules laid down at dairy schools and conventions 

 are just so much raw material furnished for makers to work with, and 

 unless a maker can apply these, they are of no benefit to him. 



SOME LESSONS FROM PAN=AMERICAN DAIRY TE,ST 



DE WITT GOODRICH, FT. ATKINSON, WIS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



The first act of this drama seems to be paper hanging. (Hangs 

 chart.) It is possible that my paper will overlap the paper you heard 

 yesterday. Not being present at that time, I cannot tell whether it will 

 or not, but there may be some of the facts that were not touched upon. 



The Pan-American dairy test extended over the whole six months 

 of the Exposition. It included the testing of each one of the fifty cows, 

 representing ten different breeds, both for butter fat and for total milk 

 solids, as well as the weighing and charging of every item of feed consum- 

 ed by each animal. 



In addition to all of this, one day's milk from each herd of five cows 

 was separated and churned by itself each week. 



Every cow was weighed into the test May 1st and out of it October 

 last, and the gain in weight of each herd credited at 3 cents per pound. 



This work required the employment of about twenty experts and 

 assisstants, with the superintendent, at a total expenditure in salaries 

 of $7,320.00. The cost of the test to the exposition company for feeds, 



