120 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A: — The big milkers do not usually get overly fat. 



Mr. Newman : — Have you got any cows you have had 

 three or four years — fed this way ? 



A : — Yes sir, some we have had eight or ten years and 

 even longer. I look at a dairy farm as a manufacturing plant. 

 The cows are the machinery for turning the raw material of the 

 farm into the finished product, and like any other manufacturing- 

 plant, to make it profitable, it should be run up to its full 

 capacity. The same with the dairy cow, if she is properly cared 

 for and well fed you can bring her up to her full capacity without 

 fear of hurting the cow. 



A Member : — Do you think fresh corn ground is good for 

 them ? 



A : — Yes sir. Mixed with light, flaky bran, pound for 

 pound, thoroughly mixed. 



Mr. Lindley : — We listened here to a professor a little bit 

 ago on the value of feeds and the protein there was in them. He 

 told us that if you feed more protein than necessary to the pr 

 duction of milk it was wasted? Are you not wasting lots of 

 feed? 



A : — I have not learned it all yet I know. 



Q : — Have you tried to find that out ? 



A : — Yes. Sure. 



Q: — If the professor is right you are wasting a lot of feed? 



Prof. Fraser: — He feeds a lot of bran. He gets protein 

 in that. No protein waste. It is carbohydrates wasted. 



Mr. Lindley: — He's got too wide a ration. 



A Member : — He is losing feed value. 



A : — There are a few dairies in the vicinity of Elgin that 

 are doing well. One a cash renter that is producing 30 cans of 

 milk from 70 cows, another that is making 25 cans from 60 cows, 

 another 22 cans from 45 cows, with one 19 from 40 cows, and m 

 on. There are probably twelve or fifteen of them, and I have 

 taken pains to find out how they were feeding. They all admitted 

 they gave them all they would eat, and not get off from their 

 feed. They all had good clover hay. 





