THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 83 



BREEDING UP AND FEEDING DAIRY HERD. 

 By 

 T. J. Julian, Algona, Iowa. 



Chairman : We are honored today by having a gentleman 

 with us from our neighboring state and who is long versed in 

 the dairy business, Mr. T. J. Julian of Iowa, and I take great 

 pleasure in introducing Mr. Julian as the first speaker this after- 

 noon. He will talk to us on : Breeding Up and Feeding a 

 Dairy Herd. 



Mr. Julian — Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of 

 Fayette County and Brothers of Illinois : I have been somewhat 

 puzzled to know why the Secretary of the Illinois State Associa- 

 tion invited me down here to address the farmers of Southern 

 Illinois, and in giving it quite a considerable study and in looking 

 over the field after I came here, I have come to the conclusion 

 that he wanted you to hear from a real dairyman and farmer, 

 who is in the dairy every day and does his share of work on the 

 farm. 



In coming through St. Louis yesterday morning I came to 

 the conclusion that Southern Illinois was not deeply interested 

 in dairying; the size of the barns and the absence of the silos 

 told me that you were not much interested, because when a man 

 goes into the dairying business he must have besides good cows, 

 good surroundings, and, as a rule, on the road up I found an 

 absence of these essentials. 



Up in Iowa where I live, you people would think you were 

 in the Klondike regions because the themometer goes down to 22 

 degrees below zero. It would seem, as far as your climatic con- 

 ditions are concerned, that you would have ideal conditions for 

 the running of a dairy. How your soil would produce I do not 

 know. We have a deep black soil from two to two and one-half 

 feet which you might say was quite inexhaustible. I should say 



