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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



DISCUSSION. 



Q: — Do you think your cows would have given just as much if you 

 had not had silage? 



A: — No sir. 



Q: — What would you substitute in case you took your milk to the 

 condensing factory, where you can't use silage? 



A: — If I had to do that, I don't think I would take my milk there. No- 

 man is going to dictate to me whai I shall give my cows to eat. There is 

 too much dictation on what we produce. The factory may set up a howl 

 to us about cleaner milk and cleaner barns and better goods, but it is a 

 fact, nevertheless, that some of the creameries in my district are not 

 clean. If my barn was as dirty as their creameries are I would not at- 

 tempt to clean it. I would burn it. I will venture to say that you can go 

 to my barn tonight and if it is not cleaner than some of these creameries,. 

 I will pay all your expenses and use you well, and will leave it to Mr. 

 Glover who has been there. 



Q: — Do you think a person would know yon was using silage? 



A: — I have my doubts. 



Q: — Can you taste silage in your milk? 



A: — I never have and we use it on the table. I take my milk to the 

 creamery where there are 69 patrons and some of this milk goes to Chi- 

 cago and is sold in there, and the creameryman says it is the nicest 

 flavored milk he receives. I am the only one using silage. I used to think 

 silage tasted in the milk, but it don't, it gives a fine flavor. 



Q: — Did you say you are feeding no grain? 



A: — Only excepting corn silage. In November I milked eleven cows. 

 I fed $6.65 worth of silage; $3.00 slutted fodder; $20.00 oats. Bran in my 

 barn I paid $14.75 a ton for. The expense of feeding the eleven cows was 

 $41.65. I took to two different creameries and those cows returned me 

 $52.98 worth of milk at an xpense of $41.6-5, a net profit of $11.33 for the 

 same cows. We have one more now. 



Q: — Are your cows losing flesh? 



