STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATIOX. 575 



Mr. Iteamer: As to the spreading- of the mamuc, as you drive aloug, 

 Avith the American, all yon have to do is to put your hand on the lever 

 and change it a little, and spread it thicker and tliinuer. 



Mr. Johnson: Just one thought the gentlemen raised I Avant to men- 

 tion with reference to barnyard manure. I am glad he raised the ques- 

 tion. 1 intended to spealc of it. Clover takes nitrogen from the air. As 

 I said a -while ago we pay for bran $18 a ton, to get the protein. Nitro- 

 gen when it comes in the form of ammonia is ready for the plant to use 

 it, and if the plant does not use it, the chances are j'ou will lose it. It 

 simply gets away from you. Wliy not take that manure, and instead of 

 putting $40 on an acre, put $40 on five or six acres; put i* on the growing 

 crop, and simply save every ounce of the plant food available, and put it 

 in the crop? 



Mr. A'an Xorniaii: Wliat proportion of the fertility is lost if you do 

 not get the liquid manure into the heap? 



.Mr. Jolnison: Sixty-three per cent, is in tlic li(iuid. 



Mr. (ioiidricli: I'rof. 15al)Cock said tlie otln-r day, GO per cent. 



KETOKT UF .SECKKTAUY-Tltl^ASURER. 



II. E. VA.N NOIiMA.N". I.Al AVKTTE. 



Ill niy tluarcapa<ity as an instructor in the University and an officer 

 of this Association I have sought to gather information relative to the 

 status and dcvcloitniciit of tlic dairy interests. 



I find the development most marked in the northern part of the State, 

 where in tlie western corner milk is also shipped to ('hicago and farther 

 east are lor-ated nearly half of all the creameries in the State. In Wayne 

 and Henry counties are man\ of the rest, with a few scattered over the 

 State at large. Tlie southern half of our State is wonderfully well 

 adapted by climate, soil, water and grass, to dairying. They need tlu' 

 regular money income and the iiiaiinre which results from the dairy, and 

 they are beginning: in '".ilize it. There have been two creameries estab- 

 lished «lo\vn tlieie wiiliin llie past year. Tlu're have been six or seven 

 creameries built in our State witliiii the iiast two <ir threes years. We are 

 giiing ti> have more dairyiim. 



We h.ive Chicago, South Uiiid. Furl Wayne, Indianapolis, Louisville 



