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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Thursday, 1:30 p. m. 
Convention called to order as per adjournment. On 
motion it was voted to take up Topic No. 15, “The best 
feed, quality and quantity, at the different seasons of the 
year, for cows from which butter is the chief product 
desired.” 
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Prof. F. H. Hall said this was an interesting ques¬ 
tion, as most of our common foods are either fat or flesh 
formers. Had made some experiments this year. It 
requires two pounds of flesh and six pounds of fat formers 
to sustain life; we must then feed beyond this point to get 
either growth or profit. Red Clover is a flesh former and 
is as three to seven as a fat former: it was nearly as one 
to two; he could not get exactly the right proportion; 
changed his feed to oats and corn meal; was off two pounds 
per day in yield. In winter a cow will eat as two to ten of 
flesh and fat formers; Timothy hay has just about these 
proportions, but cows could not eat and digest enough hay 
to produce what we desire. 
Clover hay has an excess of flesh former; so has bran; 
and should not be fed together. Oil meal is a great flesh 
former: corn meal is as sixteen to twenty-eight, corn 
fodder is rich just as corn is; clover and corn fodder go 
hand in hand; cows will often crave for oat straw, because 
it is a fat former and should be fed with clover; could tell 
just how much must be added to oat straw to make it just 
as good as Timothy hay. Had experimented as to sweet 
corn; his milk grew poorer and poorer; stopped the corn 
fodder and all was right again; kept the Jerseys; liked 
them best. 
1). C. Scofield wanted to know if any experiments 
