ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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Q: — What was the test of that 1700 pounds of milk? 



A:— 3.6. 



Q: — Your cows were diminishing in milk? 



A: — They are holding on now. 



Q: — Does this $11.00 profit include the value of the skim milk also 

 at these creameries? 



A: — I sell my milk right out >:o much a hundred. If I take skim 

 milk away, I pay for it at the rat^ of 15 cents. 



Mr. Sawyer: — I would like to know whether you think they will 

 hold out through the winter? A number of years ago I went through 

 this same siege and I would like to tell you you need not be anxious as 

 long as your ensilage and clover hay hold out. Some one asked him about 

 his cows holding out. My cows were in far better condition after feed- 

 ing this feed all winter thjn when I took them off grass in the fall. 



Mr. Campbell: — The day my cows were put on to this feed, Mr. Glover 

 was there and when he came again I asked him to look them over and 

 tell how the cows compared in looks. Mr. Glover, you said you could not 

 see they had lost? 



Mr. Glover: — I could not see it. It had been seven weeks since 1 

 saw them before, but I saw no change. 



Q: — How much ensilage and clovtr hay was fed. 



A: — They ate in the neighborhood of 40 to 45 pounds ensilage. Gave 

 them all the ensilage they would eat, and gave them all the corn fodder 

 they would eat. 



Q: — How many ears of corn would each cow get? 



A: — I could not say. The corn that I fed went about nine tons to the 

 acre. It was a heavy yield of corn but a poor standard of corn on the 

 ground. Probably averaged two stalks to the hill. It was planted for 

 field corn. The stalks were large and the ears were large. 



Q: — Naturally think ten stalks to make a basket full. 



A: — I don't know. » 



Mr. Cobb: — We carried a herd of 40 cows on ensilage and clover hay 

 without anything else whatever, and my recollection is that they shrunk 



