ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S .ASSOCIATION. lt g 



CHART II. 



Mary Marshall. 



Born April, 1891. Last calf April 15, 1901. 



RECORD. RECORD. 



Week ending Oct. 31. May 1, to October 31. 



Pounds milk 210 Pounds milk 5611 



Test 6.2 Estimated butter _ 3542 



Estimated butter 153 Value of butter $88.56 



Value of butter $3.83 Feed- 

 Feed— Hay $ 6.63 



Hay 16 Silage 4.34 



Silage 39 Grain 18.19< 



Grain 73 



Total feed $29.16; 



Total feed $1.28 Profit $59.40= 



Profit $2.55' 



(Shows photograph of Mary Marshall.) 

 In lieu of the cow herself, I have here the photograph of the cow 

 whose record is given as it stood at the close of the test: Mary Mar- 

 shall, the champion in net profit in butter production of all cows compet- 

 ing. 



Thousands of people passed through the barn nearly every day, and; 

 these records, together with the animals making them, were studied 

 by both city people and farmers. 



Very frequently young ladies as well as young men, college students 

 and business men were seen copying off these records with evident in- 

 fest in having learned something of the possibilities of dairying, and 

 having seen the cows which made the records. 



A lesson which appeals to me as one of the most important to be de- 

 rived from all this work, is that taught by a comparison of the extremes 

 of profitable production found in the same herd. It is altogether likely 



