58 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Feeding and Developing the Kansas 

 Dairy Gow 



PROF. D. H. OTIS, MANHATTAN, KANSAS. 



The young man starting out in life sometimes wishes he had the wis- 

 dom of a Solomon, the eloquence of a Webster, the bravery of a Dewey^ 

 and the longevity of a Mathusala ail wrapped up in his own little self. 

 He would then be able to accomplish something in this world. As a 

 dairy State Kansas is still a youngster and at times some of her citizens 

 long for a combination cow that gives milk with the richness of a Jersey,, 

 the sweet flavor of a Brown Swiss, and quantity of a Holstein, and at the 

 same time have the beef producing qualities of a Hereford. Such a cow 

 would be a howling success. But fortunately or unfortunately Kansas 

 cows, like her young men, have not inherited all the traits and characters, 

 of every individual of its species from Adam to the present generation. 

 In every walk of life we find' ourselves hemmed in by certain limitations,, 

 and the question i& not so much how to get rid of these limitations as it 

 is how to make the most out of them. 



We have in Kansas a large number of common or scrub cows that 

 are being used for dairy purposes. These cows are not all we might wish 

 them to be, but they are what we have and we want to know how to get 

 the greatest profit from them. This thought in connection with the need 

 of milk for our dairy school led the agricultural College to -purchase a 

 head of typical western Kansas cows, which at the time of purchase- were 

 admitted to be below the average of the state. A record of a part of this 

 herd has already been published, but since then a larger number have 

 completed a year's record, and we now have complete results from 2& 

 heads. The following tables gives a summary of the results: 



