ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. l2 y 



ice, etc., amounted to $4,700.00, making a total cost of over $12,000.00, 

 which was, however, to a great extent, offset by the sale of products. 



An advisory committee composed of Major Henry E. Alvord, Hon. 

 E. W. Hobson of Canada, Dr. W. H. Jordan and J. H. Grisdal (the two 

 last named representing the Associations of America and Dominion Ex- 

 periment Stations), together with a representative of each breed for- 

 mulate the rules which governed tne test. 



They provided for the awarding of four prizes to the herds of five 

 cows excelling in the following points of merit: 



1st. — Greatest net profit on estimated butter at 25c per lb., 85 lbs. fat 

 in milk, representing 100 lbs. of butter. 



2nd. — Greatest net profit on churned butter at 25c per lb. 



3rd.— Greatest net profit on total milk solids at 9c per lb. 



4th.— Greatest net profit on total milk solids at 9c per lb., plus gain 

 gain in live weight at 3c per lb. 



This joint committee also established prices at which the various 

 leeds should be charged to the cows, this being estimated from a review 

 of the prices of the several feeds throughout the United States and Can- 

 ada for the last five years. They were as follows: Corn silage $2.00 per 

 ton; green feed $1.75; clover hay $7.00; bran $15.00; ground oats $19.00; 

 cornmeal and gluten feed each $16.00; and oilmeal, cottonseed meal and 

 pea meal each $25.00. 



The carrying out of a test of this kind, extending as it did through 

 about two-thirds of a period of lactation, and embracing so many 

 breeds of cattle, could not help but teach many valuable lessons, or to 

 more firmly impress some previously learned. 



The agricultural press during the last four months of this test kept 

 the reading farmer pretty well posted as to its progress, and since its 

 completion, has given out not only the general results freely, but lias 

 abounded in speculations and deductions from the results, variously 

 colored according to the view point, previous conviction or prejudice of 

 the writers. ? 



