ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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much I think for the class of cows he has. If he had 400 or 500 pound, 

 cows, this ration would he excellent, and an excellent one for the fresh 

 cows. Feed a fresh cow all she will use to the best advantage, but during 

 the latter part of her period of lactation she does not require the same 

 amount of feed as a cow on the full flow, and a great many men are mak- 

 ing the mistake of feeding the same amount of feed through the cows 

 whole milking period. 



Here is another herd that was inthe same comunity. This man has 

 18 cows. He got 2563 pounds of milk from these 18 cows; he sold 92.63 

 pounds of butter fat. It cost $16.81 for feed for them. As you will re- 

 member, it cost one man $12.00 for feed, another $14.00, and this one 

 $16.81. This man spent $4.00 more and received about twice as much 

 milk as the first man who only sold 1305 of 3.08 per cent milk, which gavd 

 40 pounds of butter fat. The net profit on the total amount of butter 

 fat at 25c a pound would be $2; J .00; the cost of feed $16.81, gives a 

 profit of $6.34, and here we have one man lost $2.10, another man makes a 

 profit of $3.35 and here $6.34 profit from about the sajne number of cows, 

 and feeding about the same amount of grain and roughage and selling 

 milk to ihe same creamery. If we add the value of this man's skim milk 

 he has a net profit of $11.78. Here is the ration: Four pounds of corn, 4 

 pounds bran and 1 pound gluten meal and Timothy hay about 5 pounds, 

 and all the Stover they will eat. This ration comes out nicely for a cow 

 giving the amount of butter fat they did. It is I think the best ration I 

 have here in my list for cows that are giving about the same amount of 

 butter fat that these cows are producing. 



Q:— What is their test? 



A:— 3.60. 



He has a cow that is doing exceptionally well. They call her "Crazy," 

 but she don't act like it. Gives 9 pounds of butter every week since she 

 calved. If she keeps on she will be a 350 pound cow. 



We must not put too much depence on a cow from what she does the 

 first three or four months. The cow that is a persistent milker is the on« 



