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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



RATION NO. 



Corn Fodder, 25 lbs 



" " 5 lbs 



.50 

 .39 

 .61 



8.30 

 3.33 

 1.85 



.15 

 ' .21 



Bran " " 



.13 







- Total 



1.50 



13.48 



.49 







RATION NO. 3. 



Orchard g-rass, 10 lbs 



Clover, 10 lbs 



Corn, 4 lbs 



Bran, 1 lb 



Chicago g-luten meal, 3 lbs. 



Total 



,14 

 .17 



n 



,02 

 .14 



.64 



RATION NO. 4. 



Alfalfa, 18 lbs 



Corn, 8 lbs 







1.90 

 .62 



6.71 

 5.33 



.25 

 .34 







Total 



2.52 



12.04 



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As you look at these pictures I hope you will not^get any wrong im- 

 pressions. I wasi criticized' the other day for publishing an account of 

 our best cow and showing cuts of her at the time and one year after en- 

 tering college, remarking that the difference was due to a college educa- 

 tion. The criticism was. to the effect that we should not speak of cows as 

 going to college, for it gave the impression that the cowsi were associate'd 

 with the studentsi, walked arm in arm with them in the halls, sat beside 

 them in class rooms. Such thoughts gave outsiders a chance to call this 

 a "cow college." The fact of the matter is that this is no more of a "cow 

 college" than it is a "plant college," a "chemical college," an "apple 

 college," a "bug college," a "biscuit college," or a "hemstitching college." 

 But the Agricultural College is a school that takes! up the various subjects 

 that the farmer, the stock raiser, the dairyman, the mechanic, and the 

 housewife has to deal with and tries to give such instruction to the rising 

 generation that will first make men and women of them by teaching them 

 to think and at the same time let the instruction be such that will be 



