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herd ; sent the poor cows to the butcher and gradually, in ten 

 years time, they more than doubled the annual profit of dairying 

 in Denmark. They raised that 125 pounds per year to over 200 

 pounds per year. I think if we could go into some of these herds 

 here, we would find that they could be cut nearly half, and that 

 then they could make more money than if we had the whole herd. 



You have clone some good work with Mr. Glover along this 

 line of weeding out, field work, in the state. You ought to take 

 the result of his work and consider it well. See if you have not 

 something to do along that line. Mr. Glover's experiences m were 

 extremely interesting in testing farm herds. The results he has 

 obtained are still more interesting. In some of f he best dairy 

 sections of Illinois we are not what we should be by a long ways. 

 I hope you will consider these questions. 



If you think you are not making anything in dairying and 

 that it is just a side issue, consider for a moment, and consider 

 it from now on, that there is money for you in dairying if you 

 will do the work right. Is your cow giving 2,000 or 3,000 

 pounds of milk per year. There are those that give 6,000, 8,000 

 and 10,000 pounds of milk per year, and wouldn't your profits be 

 something at the prices today ? I want to say to you that the cow 

 will produce 6,000, 7,000, 8,000 and 10,000 pounds of milk, 

 and she is going to eat but very little more than the cow that pro- 

 duces but 2,000 pounds. You can't afford to have anything else 

 when you think about this question. 



How are you going to get her ? You can buy her. But the 

 other fellow who has her is wise enough and he is not going to 

 sell the best cow. You have got to grow her on your farm, and 

 the only way is to first find out what you have. If you have a 

 herd of twenty cows on your farm, don't let the next month's 

 record go by without you're knowing what they produce. You 

 will find some good ones and you will want to breed and have 

 them right along. Others let the butcher take, and that soon. 

 You wil lbe srurprised very often to find the old cow was not your 

 good one as you thought, and the other way round. Apply the 



