ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ^j 



be higher and beef Tower, and he will then wish he had the experience, 

 the growth, the development he would have had by sticking :to one thing 

 and malting the most of it. What would you think of a doctor who had 

 spent years in preparing himself for his profession decided to become a 

 lawyer just because lawyers were drawing larger fees at a given time. 

 By the time he completes his law course, likely as not, the doctors will 

 be reaping the largest profits. In the meantime he has lost all the exper- 

 ience and s(kill he would have attained by sticking t o medicine. By 

 shifting this way from one thing to another a man will go through life 

 making a failure of everything. What men need to be impressed with to- 

 day is that they should have a specialty and stick to it. As will be seen 

 from the above figures the question is not so much how we can- get more, 

 cows, but how we can get cows o a better brand. We want and ought 

 to have cows that yield so much that the farmer cannot afford not to milk 

 them no matter what the price of beef. To do this, records and the 

 methods of men who are making a success of the dairy businessi need to 

 be brought before the public. This in connection with experiments and 

 instruction at the college, in connection with constant agitation along 

 the lines of feeding and breeding will undoubtedily bear fruit sooner or 

 later in raising the standard) of the dairy industry throughout the state, 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Long: Can we raise alfalfa in this section? 



A. I am not sure as to that. 



Mr. Eraser: We have tried it several times at the University with 

 very poor success. It does not do asi well for us as red clover, and that 

 is general thrjDughout the State. 



Mr. Long: The red clover in this part of the country was killed out 

 last winter, and a great many are after ration No, 1. Can you tell them 

 the cost of a pound of butter fat when fed that ration? 



A. We don't feed that ration so have no results. We know what 

 farmers are doing; they are getting trom 72 to 85 pounds of butter from 



