ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 2 I I 



to pay" — and points to that "twelve and one-half millions of dollars net," 

 credited to the cow through the creamery. 



The one hundred and thirty pound average is criticized and the one 

 hundred and thirty pound cow| ridiculed by the advocates of the special 

 purpose dairy breeds. The criticism is met by the query of "What's the 

 use to drive the limit when you don't have to"; the ridicule is met with a 

 laugh by the cow owners, who point to the actual results accomplished by 

 Director Curtiss with "beef breeds on dairy feeds," and suggest compari- 

 son. 



They love to tell the story of the eleven year old Angus giving 6,855 

 pounds of milk, making 308 pounds of butter; and the seven year old 

 that gave 8,139 pounds of milk and made 387 pounds of butter, each in the 

 first and only tested period of lactation. 



They point with pride to the record of the Shorthorn — only one that 

 has failed to return a profit as a dairy animal in all the college tests; they 

 quote figures running from that indebtedness of $1.20 to the dairy profit 

 of $77.65 net, made by the five year old Reward or Nora's Duke — 9,326.8 

 pounds of milk; 449.3 pounds of butter; average cost per pound of five and 

 two-tenths cents, from the first of April, 1900, to the first of April, 1901; 

 carrying a calf during the latter part of the period that sold, to head a 

 Massachusetts herd, for $500.00. Or College Moore, that in the last three 

 periods of lactation, produced 403, 409, and 474 pounds of butter — 1,286 

 pounds in three consecutive years 



The tendency of the average farmer is better illustrated by an ac^ 

 quaintance, who in 1899 draw $941.26 from the creamery and in 1901, 

 $435.26. In 1899 he sold a car of fat cattle on the Chicago market for ten 

 cents less than the top; in 1901, he sold three cars within a "nickel of the 

 top" and his check accompanying the account sales was for $4,735.00; he 

 liad thirty cows in 1899 and thirty-five in 1901. 



Few Iowa farmers have a right to the title "Dairyman," although 

 creamery patrons, for the milk product is a subordinate, or rather auxil- 

 iary, branch of a business, aggregating last year six hundred millions of 

 dollars. 



