iSS ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q: — Then the first cross is a very desirable one either one way or the 

 other? 



A: — Well, I don't know whether I could say it would be or not. Yqu 

 take a Holstein cow and cross it w'ith a Jerssey and I am a little afraid of 

 the result. The largeness of the animal is a little on the wrong side. 



Mr. Cobb: — It is as good one way as the other. 



Q: — With regard to that profitable cow of yours that gave that 3.2 per 

 cent milk, I don't know, I can't quite agree with you. There is one thing, 

 she was giving a large flow of milk, low per cent of cream, and you fig- 

 ured your skim milk way! out of fight, and that is where that cow's 

 profit comes in. You figure that profit at 33 1-3 per cent. That is the place 

 where we will get a wrong impression if we are not careful. Wo can't 

 iispose of skim milk and get that per cent. 



A: — As far as that figuring is concerned I said when I started in I was 

 joing to talk egotistically and talk only of myself. I will admit from 

 creameries it will not be worth more than 15 to 20 cents, but I do believe a 

 man can get more than that out of it if he will. 



Mr. Cobb: — I will have to take Nowlan's part on this skim milk 

 question. They say to me, "How do you get your silage so cheap.'' They 

 ask him here this same question, it is almost indispensable at any price 

 where you raise your calves. We can't do without it. It is one of the 

 best things I have ever found in connection with developing the dairy cow 

 for the future, and consequently I would not put a price on my skim milk 

 unless it was equal to what I could make out of it. When a certain com- 

 pany wanted to buy my skim milk, I told them I had a price and if they 

 wanted to pay it I would sell it, and they asked what it was and I told 

 them 50 cents a hundred, and consequently the deal was stopped right 

 there. I would not take a cent less than that. If a man is raising pigs 

 and calves he needs all he cangv>t. 'There is too much of this western 

 cow combine for the good of the average farmer. If they would raise 

 their own stock they would do much better. There is too much western 

 cow coming into the Elgin district A man buys them and takes them 

 home and they haven't been milked for three days, and the first thing 



